Anuvaka 7
Suktas in Anuvaka 7
Sukta 61
This short Atharvavedic hymn combines a healing-prosperity petition with a strong installation of mantra-authority: Waters and Sun are asked to bestow sweetness, purification, joy, and radiance, while Savitṛ establishes expansive vigor. It then shifts into a Vāc (Divine Speech) self-proclamation in which Speech claims cosmic ordering power, making the reciter’s utterance socially and ritually effective—able to confer “being” and to deny standing to the ritually unsupported adversary.
Sukta 62
This short Atharvavedic hymn is a compact purification-and-healing charm that draws on cosmic purifiers—Vaiśvānara (Agni), Vāta (Wind/breath), and Dyāvā-Pṛthivī (Heaven–Earth)—to cleanse bodily and ritual taint. It couples removal of impurity with the positive gain of sūnṛtā (gracious truth/speech), varcas (radiant vitality), prosperity, and longevity, expressed as “long seeing the Sun arise.”
Sukta 63
This brief Atharvavedic hymn is a crisis-charm for loosening Nirṛti’s deadly bond—imagined as a neck-cord or iron fetter—and restoring the patient to āyus (life-span), varcas (radiant vigor), and bala (strength). It combines the language of unbinding and rescue with a regulated appeal to Yama and the Pitṛs, and it seals the rite in a domestic-fire frame by kindling Agni for renewed prosperity and protection.
Sukta 64
This brief Saṃmanasya hymn is a focused charm for social concord: it binds a group into a single intention, heart, and mind so decisions and actions arise without factionalism. It models human unity on the archetype of the Devas “of old” who share their portion in mutual agreement, making divine concord the template for communal cohesion.
Sukta 65
AV 6.65 is a compact martial-apotropaic charm that magically depresses an enemy’s rage, disables their striking power (making them “handless”), and forces retreat. It grounds its efficacy in a mythic precedent—Indra’s primordial disarming of the Asuras—then redirects the released power toward victory and the patron’s wealth.
Sukta 66
AV 6.66 is a compact Indra-charm for battlefield protection that “disarms” hostile forces and hands them over to Indra’s decisive smiting. Across three brisk verses the hymn immobilizes attackers, weakens their limbs, and fractures their strategic counsel so the threat collapses before contact. Its power lies in declaring the enemy already shattered—turning imminent assault into routed confusion.
Sukta 67
This brief Atharvanic hymn is a compact protective-and-offensive charm that secures all approaches, throws enemy forces into confusion, and breaks their leadership. Indra and Pūṣan are invoked to patrol the paths on every side, while fear and disorientation are redirected onto the foe so that prosperity—symbolized by cattle—returns safely to the singer’s side.
Sukta 68
This brief vapanam (shaving) hymn sacralizes a bodily grooming act as a protective saṃskāra, invoking divine skill to prevent injury and impurity. By aligning the human shave with the royal paradigm of Soma (and Varuṇa) shaved by Savitar, it converts a potentially risky act into a rite that confers varcas (radiance), long life, clear sight, and prosperity in cattle, horses, and offspring.
Sukta 69
AV 6.69 is a compact paustika hymn for acquiring varcas (radiant presence), yaśas (public fame), and bhárgas-filled vāc (brilliant, persuasive speech). It draws splendour from prized social domains (speech, gold, cattle, festive drink, sweetness) and concentrates it in the petitioner, culminating in an Aśvin-anointing that makes one’s words followed by the people.
Sukta 70
This short Paustika hymn is a practical veterinary charm to make a mother-cow (Aghnyā, “not to be slain”) accept, follow, and nurse her calf. Through repeated yathā (“just as… so…”) analogies of irresistible fixation—craving, tracking, and mechanical fastening—the mantra ‘binds’ the cow’s manas (attention/affection) onto the calf, restoring proper maternal behavior and household prosperity.
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