Mantra 3

Sukta 76

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

यः कीकसाः प्रशृणाति तलीद्यऽमवतिष्ठति । निर्हास्तं सर्वं जायान्यं यः कश्च ककुदि श्रितः

IAST Transliteration

yáḥ kī́kasāḥ prá-śṛṇā́ti talī́dyo ’m avá-tiṣṭhati | nír hā́stáṁ sárvaṁ jāyā́nyaṁ yáḥ káś ca kakúdi śritáḥ

English Translation (Griffith/Whitney)

What talīdya breaks the vertebrae, and, yea, takes its station upon the body—out, verily, to setting let all that jāyānya go, whatsoever, clinging anywhere, is lodged upon the hump of the back.

Word by Word

यःwho (he who)

कीकसाः(the) ribs / rib-bones

प्रforth, forward (intensifier)

शृणातिbreaks, crushes, shatters

तलीद्यम्the spleen (lit. ‘that at the side’)

अवतिष्ठतिstands upon, presses down on; afflicts

निःout, away

हाaway! begone! / leave!

तम्that (one), him/it

सर्वम्all, the whole

जायान्यम्belonging to the wife/household; domestic (ailment/evil)

यःwho (whoever)

कश्चanyone at all, whoever

ककुदिon the hump/summit (ridge)

श्रितःresting on, lodged, clinging

Attribution

Rishi: Atharvanic tradition (Anukramaṇī attribution not supplied in input)

Devata: Disease entities (talīdya, jāyānya) as adversaries

Chandas: Not securely determinable from input alone

Mantra Rasa

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