Atharva Veda 6.90.2: Kanda 6, Anuvaka 9, Sukta 90, Mantra 2

Sukta 90

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

यास्ते॑ श॒तं ध॒मन॒योऽङ्गा॒न्यनु॒ विष्ठि॑ताः । तासां॑ ते॒ सर्वा॑सां व॒यं निर्वि॒षाणि॑ ह्वयामसि

Recitation with translationAtharva Veda 6.90.2

IAST Transliteration

yā́s te śatáṃ dhamánayo ’ṅgā́ny ánu víṣṭhitāḥ | tā́sāṃ te sárvāsāṃ vayáṃ nirviṣā́ṇi hvayāmasi

English Translation (Griffith/Whitney)

What hundred channels of thine are stretched along the members—of them all, for thee, we call in the poisonless powers, the antidotal release.

Translation

तुम्हारे शरीर में सौ रस्ते फैल गए हैं जहाँ ज़हर फैल सकता है। उन सब से हम ज़हर को निकालने की दुआ करते हैं। हम ऐसी शक्ति को बुलाते हैं जो ज़हर को खत्म करे।

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Word by Word

• याः: which (fem. pl.)
• याः: Kartā
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: यद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• ते: your
• ते: Sambandha (genitive relation)
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: युष्मद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• शतम्: a hundred
• शतम्: Viśeṣaṇa (of ‘धमनयः’)
• Type: Numeral/Adjective
• Root: शत (संख्या-प्रातिपदिक)

• धमनयः: channels/tubes; (esp.) veins/ducts
• धमनयः: Kartā (relative clause subject)
• Type: Noun
• Root: धमनि (प्रातिपदिक)

• अङ्गानि: limbs; body-parts
• अङ्गानि: Karma (with ‘अनु’)
• Type: Noun
• Root: अङ्ग (प्रातिपदिक)

• अनु: along; throughout
• अनु: Upapada (governs accusative; distributive ‘along/throughout’)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अनु (उपसर्ग/अव्यय)

• विष्ठिताः: set/placed; distributed
• विष्ठिताः: Kartā (agreeing with ‘धमनयः’)
• Type: Participle (Adjective)
• Root: वि-स्था (धातु √स्था) → ‘विष्ठित’ (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक)

• तासाम्: of those (fem.)
• तासाम्: Sambandha (genitive relation)
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• ते: to you
• ते: Sampradāna
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: युष्मद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• सर्वासाम्: of all
• सर्वासाम्: Viśeṣaṇa (of ‘तासाम्’)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सर्व (प्रातिपदिक)

• वयम्: we
• वयम्: Kartā
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: अस्मद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• निर्विषाणि: (as) poisonless; free from poison
• निर्विषाणि: Karma (what is invoked/called as a state/boon)
• Type: Adjective (predicative) / (possible verbal-noun usage)
• Root: निर्-√विष् / विष (प्रातिपदिक ‘विष’ + निर्-; interpreted as ‘free from poison’)

• ह्वयामसि: we invoke/call
• ह्वयामसि: Kriyā (finite verb)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √ह्वे (ह्वयति) / √ह्वा ‘to call, invoke’

Attribution

Rishi: Atharvanic healing tradition (anonymous/collective)

Devata: Nirviṣa (antidotal purity) invoked; implicitly Rudra’s affliction is countered

Chandas: Anuṣṭubh (approx.)

Mantra Rasa

Primary: shanta

Secondary: bhayankara