Mantra 1

Sukta 91

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

यक्ष्मनाशनम्। इमं यवमष्टायोगैः षड्योगेभिरचर्कृषुः । तेना ते तन्वो३रपो ऽपाचीनमप व्यये

IAST Transliteration

imáṃ yávam aṣṭā́-yogaiḥ ṣáḍ-yogébhir acarkṛṣuḥ | ténā te tanvò rápó ’pācī́nam ápa vyaye

English Translation (Griffith/Whitney)

This barley have they compounded with eightfold mixtures, with sixfold mixtures; therewith, from thy body, I drive away the wasting harm, turned backward and sent afar.

Word by Word

• यक्ष्मनाशनम्: (a charm/thing) destroying consumption/disease
• यक्ष्मनाशनम्: Karma
• Type: Noun/Adjective
• Root: यक्ष्म-नाशन (प्रातिपदिक; यक्ष्म + नाशन)

• इमम्: this
• इमम्: Karma
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: इदम् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• यवम्: barley
• यवम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: यव (प्रातिपदिक)

• अष्टा: with eight
• अष्टा: Karaṇa
• Type: Numeral
• Root: अष्टन् (संख्या-प्रातिपदिक)

• योगैः: with joinings/ritual applications
• योगैः: Karaṇa
• Type: Noun
• Root: योग (प्रातिपदिक)

• षट्: with six
• षट्: Karaṇa
• Type: Numeral
• Root: षष् (संख्या-प्रातिपदिक)

• योगेभिः: with joinings/ritual applications
• योगेभिः: Karaṇa
• Type: Noun
• Root: योग (प्रातिपदिक)

• अचर्कृषुः: they drew/ploughed/dragged (performed the act)
• अचर्कृषुः: Kartā
• Type: Verb
• Root: कृष् (धातु; ‘to plough/draw/drag’), पुनरुक्त-आओरिस्ट (चर्कृष्)

• तेन: with that; by that
• तेन: Karaṇa
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• ते: for you / of you
• ते: Sampradāna
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: त्वद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• तन्वोः: of/in (your) two bodies; of the body
• तन्वोः: Adhikaraṇa
• Type: Noun
• Root: तनू (प्रातिपदिक)

• अपः: waters (healing waters)
• अपः: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: अप् (प्रातिपदिक)

• अपाचीनम्: backward; away (from you)
• अपाचीनम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अपाचीन (प्रातिपदिक; अप + अच्/अञ्च् ‘to turn’ → ‘turned away/backward’)

• अप: away, off
• अप: —
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अप (उपसर्ग/अव्यय)

• व्यये: go away; depart
• व्यये: Kartā
• Type: Verb
• Root: वि + इ (धातु; ‘to go’), लोट्/विधिलिङ् वैदिक-रूप (व्यये)

Attribution

Rishi: Atharvanic healer tradition

Devata: Bhaiṣajya (medicine) / Yakṣman-removal power (functional devatā)

Chandas: Anuṣṭubh (approx.)

Mantra Rasa

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