Mantra 4

Sukta 23

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

अस्थिजस्य किलासस्य तनूजस्य च यत् त्वचि। दूष्या कृतस्य ब्रह्मणा लक्ष्म श्वेतमनीनशम्

IAST Transliteration

asthijásya kilā́sasya tanūjásya ca yát tvací | dū́ṣyā́ kṛtásya bráhmaṇā lákṣma śvetám anīnaśam ||

English Translation (Griffith/Whitney)

Whatsoever of bone-begotten, of kilāsa, and of body-begotten (ill) is upon the skin—O blemish—by the spell-power, as of a thing wrought (and imposed), that white mark have I made to vanish.

Word by Word

• अस्थिजस्य: of (the disease/affliction) arising from bone
• अस्थिजस्य: सम्बन्ध (genitive relation)
• Type: Noun/Adjective
• Root: अस्थिज (प्रातिपदिक; अस्थि + ज ‘जन्म/उत्पत्ति’)

• किलासस्य: of leucoderma/skin-discoloration (kīlāsa)
• किलासस्य: सम्बन्ध
• Type: Noun
• Root: किलास (प्रातिपदिक)

• तनूजस्य: of that born in the body / congenital
• तनूजस्य: सम्बन्ध
• Type: Noun/Adjective
• Root: तनूज (प्रातिपदिक; तनू + ज)

• च: and
• च: —
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• यत्: whatever (that which)
• यत्: कर्म (नीनशम् इत्यस्य) / सम्बन्धक
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: यद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• त्वचि: in/on the skin
• त्वचि: अधिकारण
• Type: Noun
• Root: त्वच् (प्रातिपदिक)

• दूष्या: to be defiled; defiling/tainting
• दूष्या: कर्म (नीनशम् इत्यस्य) / विशेषण
• Type: Adjective
• Root: दूष्य (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक; √दूष् ‘दूषण’ + य)

• कृतस्य: of what is done/made (produced)
• कृतस्य: सम्बन्ध (ब्रह्मणा इत्यस्य सह—‘of the done/produced’)
• Type: Adjective/Participle
• Root: कृत (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक; √कृ ‘करण’ क्त)

• ब्रह्मणा: by (the power of) sacred utterance / brahman (spell)
• ब्रह्मणा: करण
• Type: Noun
• Root: ब्रह्मन् (प्रातिपदिक)

• लक्ष्म: O Lakṣmī—(here:) O blemish/mark of disease
• लक्ष्म: सम्बोधन
• Type: Noun
• Root: लक्ष्मी/लक्ष्मन् (प्रातिपदिक; AV में ‘लक्ष्म’ = दुष्ट-लक्षण/रोग-चिह्न)

• श्वेतम्: white
• श्वेतम्: कर्म (नीनशम् इत्यस्य) / विशेषण
• Type: Adjective
• Root: श्वेत (प्रातिपदिक)

• अनीनशम्: I drive away / I remove
• अनीनशम्: कर्तृ (अहं/मन्त्रः निहितः)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √नश्/नश् (वेद. ‘नाशयति/अपनयति’), with reduplication (अ-नी-नश्)

Attribution

Rishi: Atharvanic tradition (often transmitted under Atharvan/Angiras lineages for bhaiṣajya hymns; specific r̥ṣi attribution depends on Anukramaṇī tradition for AVŚ 1.23)

Devata: Lakṣmī as ‘blemish/mark’ (personified pathology); implicitly Brahman (spell-power) as the effective agency

Chandas: Anuṣṭubh (probable; to be confirmed against pada-count in the edition used)

Mantra Rasa

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