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Atharva Veda 6.85.1: Kanda 6, Anuvaka 9, Sukta 85, Mantra 1

Sukta 85

यक्ष्मनाशनम्। व॒र॒णो वा॑रयाता अ॒यं दे॒वो वन॒स्पतिः॑ । यक्ष्मो॒ यो अ॒स्मिन्नावि॑ष्ट॒स्तमु॑ दे॒वा अ॑वीवरन्

yákṣmanāśanam | varaṇó vā́rayātā ayáṃ devó vanaspátiḥ | yákṣmo yó asmínnā́viṣṭás tám u devā́ avīvaran

A slayer of wasting-sickness: let Varana, this god, the Lord of the Forest, repel it. The wasting-disease which hath entered into this man—him have the Gods driven forth and kept afar.

यह मंत्र बिमारी को मारता है। वरण देवता, जो जंगल का स्वामी है, वो इसे रोक देगा। जो बिमारी इस आदमी में घुसी है, देवता उसे बाहर भगा देंगे और दूर रखेंगे।

यक्ष्मनाशनम्(the) destroyer/remedy of yákṣma (consumption/disease)
यक्ष्मनाशनम्:
विशेषण/कर्म (संदर्भानुसार ‘यक्ष्म-नाशनम्’ = ‘यक्ष्म का नाश करने वाला/उपाय’)
TypeNoun (compound)
Rootयक्ष्म- (प्रातिपदिक) + नाशन- (प्रातिपदिक; √नश्/नाश् ‘नाशे’ से)
वरणःVaruṇa / the varana-tree (as a deity/plant)
वरणः:
कर्तृ (वाक्य का विषय)
TypeNoun
Rootवरण- (प्रातिपदिक)
वारयाताmay you ward off / keep away
वारयाता:
क्रिया (आज्ञा)
TypeVerb
Root√वृ/वारय् (वारणे) (causative stem वारय-)
अयम्this
अयम्:
कर्तृ/विषय-निर्देशक (देवः का विशेषण)
TypePronoun
Rootइदम् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
देवःgod; divine being
देवः:
कर्तृ (वरणः/अयं देवः…)
TypeNoun
Rootदेव- (प्रातिपदिक)
वनस्पतिःlord of the forest; tree/plant
वनस्पतिः:
कर्तृ/समानााधिकरण (देवः के साथ)
TypeNoun
Rootवनस्पति- (प्रातिपदिक)
यक्ष्मःyákṣma; wasting disease/consumption
यक्ष्मः:
कर्तृ (यो…आविष्टः)
TypeNoun
Rootयक्ष्म- (प्रातिपदिक)
यःwho/which
यः:
कर्तृ (यक्ष्मः का विशेषण/सम्बन्ध)
TypePronoun (relative)
Rootयद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
अस्मिन्in this
अस्मिन्:
अधिकरण (स्थान: ‘in this [person/thing]’)
TypePronoun
Rootइदम् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
आविष्टःhaving entered; having possessed
आविष्टः:
कर्तृ-विशेषण (यक्ष्मः…आविष्टः)
TypeParticiple
Rootआ-√विश् (प्रवेशने) + क्त (past passive participle)
तम्him/that (disease)
तम्:
कर्म (अवीवरन् का)
TypePronoun
Rootतद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
देवाःthe gods
देवाः:
कर्तृ (अवीवरन्)
TypeNoun
Rootदेव- (प्रातिपदिक)
अवीवरन्they warded off; they kept away
अवीवरन्:
क्रिया
TypeVerb
Root√वृ/वारय् (वारणे) (causative stem वारय-/वीवर-)

Rishi: Atharvanic tradition (often transmitted under Atharvan/Angiras rubric; specific r̥ṣi attribution requires pada-anukramaṇī confirmation)

Devata: Varana/Vanaspati as divine healer; secondarily ‘the Gods’ as expellers of yákṣma

Chandas: Anuṣṭubh (probable; to be confirmed against metrical scansion in a critical edition)

Primary: shanta

Secondary: vira

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