Atharva Veda 9.3.8: Kanda 9, Anuvaka 1, Sukta 3, Mantra 8

Sukta 3

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

अक्षु॑मोप॒शं वित॑तं सहस्रा॒क्षं वि॑षू॒वति॑ । अव॑नद्धम॒भिहि॑तं॒ ब्रह्म॑णा॒ वि चृ॑तामसि

Recitation with translationAtharva Veda 9.3.8

IAST Transliteration

ákṣum upáśaṃ vítataṃ sahasrā́kṣaṃ viṣūváti | avánaddham abhíhitaṃ bráhmaṇā ví cṛtāmasi

English Translation (Griffith/Whitney)

The eye-beset covering, outspread, thousand-eyed, lying athwart—bound about and laid on—this, with sacred spell, we cut apart.

Translation

Selubung yang bertabur mata, terbentang, bermata seribu, melintang—yang terikat rapat dan dikenakan—ini, dengan mantra suci (brahman), kami belah dan potong terpisah.

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Word by Word

• अक्षुम्: axle/axis (as an object)
• अक्षुम्: कर्म
• Type: Noun
• Root: अक्षु (प्रातिपदिक; ‘अक्षु’ = धुरा/अक्षः, ‘axle/axis’)

• उपशम्: appeasement, calming (charm/means)
• उपशम्: कर्म
• Type: Noun
• Root: उपश (प्रातिपदिक; ‘उपश’ = उपशमन/शमन, calming/appeasement)

• विततम्: stretched out, spread
• विततम्: कर्म
• Type: Adjective (past passive participle)
• Root: वि-तन् (धातु √तन् ‘to stretch’); क्त-प्रत्ययान्त कृदन्त ‘वितत’

• सहस्राक्षम्: thousand-eyed (having countless eyes)
• सहस्राक्षम्: कर्म
• Type: Adjective (compound)
• Root: सहस्र + अक्ष (तत्पुरुष/बहुव्रीहि-समास; प्रातिपदिक)

• विषूवति: divergent, spreading apart
• विषूवति: कर्म
• Type: Adjective (with -वत्)
• Root: विषूवत् (प्रातिपदिक; ‘विषूवत्’ = apart, in opposite directions, divergent)

• अवनद्धम्: bound, fastened
• अवनद्धम्: कर्म
• Type: Adjective (past passive participle)
• Root: अव-नह् (धातु √नह् ‘to bind’); क्त-प्रत्ययान्त कृदन्त ‘अवनद्ध’

• अभिहितम्: laid on, imposed, set upon
• अभिहितम्: कर्म
• Type: Adjective (past passive participle)
• Root: अभि-धा (धातु √धा/√धा ‘to place, set’; here ‘अभिहित’ = placed upon/assigned/laid on); क्त-प्रत्ययान्त कृदन्त

• ब्रह्मणा: by sacred power / by brahman (spell, prayer)
• ब्रह्मणा: करण
• Type: Noun
• Root: ब्रह्मन् (प्रातिपदिक)

• वि: apart, asunder, forth
• वि: —
• Type: Indeclinable (preverb)
• Root: वि (उपसर्ग/अव्यय)

• चृतामसि: we move forth / we proceed (asunder)
• चृतामसि: कर्तृ
• Type: Verb
• Root: वि-चृ (धातु √चृ ‘to move, go, roam; to proceed’); लट्/वर्तमाने, परस्मैपद

Attribution

Rishi: Atharvanic domestic tradition (not specified here)

Devata: Brahman (spell-power) and the personified binding/covering (upaśa) as addressed object

Chandas: Anuṣṭubh (probable)

Mantra Rasa

Primary: vira

Secondary: shanta