Atharva Veda 8.6.5: Kanda 8, Anuvaka 1, Sukta 6, Mantra 5

Sukta 6

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

यः कृ॒ष्णः के॒श्यसु॑र स्तम्ब॒ज उ॒त तुण्डि॑कः । अ॒राया॑नस्या मु॒ष्काभ्यां॒ भंस॒सोप॑ हन्मसि

Recitation with translationAtharva Veda 8.6.5

IAST Transliteration

yáḥ kṛṣṇáḥ keśyàsúraḥ stambajá utá tuṇḍíkaḥ | arā́yānasyā muṣkā́bhyāṃ bháṃsasópa hanmasi ||

English Translation (Griffith/Whitney)

Whoso is black, long-haired, an Asura, thicket-born, yea, the snouted goblin—him, of the hostile witch, by the stones from the rump do we smite down.

Translation

जो काला है, लंबे बाल वाला है, एक राक्षस है, जंगल में रहता है, उसको हम पत्थर से मार के गिरा देते हैं। वो बुरी शक्ति का काम है, उसको हम पीछे से मारते हैं।

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Word by Word

• यः: who (that one who)
• यः: Kartā (सम्बन्ध-कर्तृ, यः…सः-सम्बन्धे)
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: यद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक) → य

• कृष्णः: black/dark (one)
• कृष्णः: Kartā (यः…कृष्णः—कर्तृ-विशेषणम्)
• Type: Adjective (used substantively)
• Root: कृष्ण (प्रातिपदिक)

• केश्यसुरः: the ‘hairy’ asura/demon (hairy demon)
• केश्यसुरः: Kartā (यः…केश्यसुरः—कर्तृ-विशेषणम्)
• Type: Noun (compound)
• Root: केश्य (प्रातिपदिक) + असुर (प्रातिपदिक) (समासः)

• स्तम्बजः: born from a clump/thicket (reed-/grass-born)
• स्तम्बजः: Kartā (यः…स्तम्बजः—कर्तृ-विशेषणम्)
• Type: Adjective/Noun (kṛdanta compound)
• Root: स्तम्ब (प्रातिपदिक) + ज (√जन् ‘to be born’, कृत्-प्रत्ययः -ज) (समासः)

• उत: and/also
• उत: — (समुच्चयार्थकः)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: उत (निपात/अव्यय)

• तुण्डिकः: Tundika (a named being/demon; ‘snouted/with a beak’)
• तुण्डिकः: Kartā (यः…तुण्डिकः—कर्तृ-विशेषणम्)
• Type: Noun (agent/being name)
• Root: तुण्डिक (प्रातिपदिक)

• अरायानस्य: of the hostile one/foe
• अरायानस्य: सम्बन्ध (genitive relation to the following body-part term)
• Type: Noun
• Root: अरायान (प्रातिपदिक; ‘hostile one/foe’)

• मुष्काभ्याम्: with the two testicles
• मुष्काभ्याम्: Karaṇa (instrument: ‘with/by the testicles’)
• Type: Noun
• Root: मुष्क (प्रातिपदिक)

• भंससः: of the rump/buttocks
• भंससः: सम्बन्ध (genitive with उप ‘towards/at’)
• Type: Noun
• Root: भंसस् (प्रातिपदिक; ‘buttocks/rump’)

• उप: towards/at
• उप: — (दिशा/समीपार्थकः)
• Type: Indeclinable (preverb/adverb)
• Root: उप (उपसर्ग/अव्यय)

• हन्मसि: I strike/smite
• हन्मसि: Kriyā (मुख्यक्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √हन् (हनँ हिंसायाम्)

Attribution

Rishi: Atharvanic tradition (Aṅgiras/Atharvan line; hymn ascribed generically in many indices)

Devata: Rakṣas/piśāca-expulsion; the operative power of the mantra (brahman) as agent

Chandas: Anuṣṭubh (predominant in AV apotropaic verses)

Mantra Rasa

Primary: raudra

Secondary: bhayankara