Mantra 10

Sukta 34

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

आशरीकं विशरीकं बलासं पृष्ट्यामयम्। तक्मानं विश्वशारदमरसां जङ्गिडस्करत्

IAST Transliteration

āśárīkaṃ víśarīkaṃ balā́saṃ pṛṣṭy-āmayám | takmā́naṃ viśváśāradam arásāṃ jāṅgiḍás karat

English Translation (Griffith/Whitney)

Āśarīka and Viśarīka, Balāsa, and the malady of the back; fever that returns through all the seasons, and the sapless wasting—these hath Jāṅgiḍa made (to cease).

Word by Word

• आशरीकम्: (a disease/affliction called) āśarīka
• आशरीकम्: कर्म
• Type: Noun
• Root: आशरीक (प्रातिपदिक)

• विशरीकम्: (a disease/affliction called) viśarīka
• विशरीकम्: कर्म
• Type: Noun
• Root: विशरीक (प्रातिपदिक)

• बलासम्: phlegm; a phlegmatic disorder
• बलासम्: कर्म
• Type: Noun
• Root: बलास (प्रातिपदिक)

• पृष्ट्यामयम्: back-ailment; disease of the back
• पृष्ट्यामयम्: कर्म
• Type: Noun
• Root: पृष्टि-आमय (समास; प्रातिपदिक)

• तक्ष्मानम्: fever (takman)
• तक्ष्मानम्: कर्म
• Type: Noun
• Root: तक्ष्मन् (प्रातिपदिक)

• विश्वशारदम्: all-autumnal; recurring every autumn / of every season
• विश्वशारदम्: कर्म
• Type: Adjective
• Root: विश्व-शारद (समास; प्रातिपदिक)

• अरसाम्: tasteless; sapless; debilitated (ones)
• अरसाम्: कर्म
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अरस (प्रातिपदिक)

• जङ्गिडस्करत्: made (them) into ‘jaṅgiḍa’ / destroyed by the jaṅgiḍa-charm (i.e., rendered powerless)
• जङ्गिडस्करत्: Kartā
• Type: Verb
• Root: √कृ (करोति) + जङ्गिड (प्रातिपदिक; कृत्-समास/नामधातु-प्रयोगः)

Attribution

Rishi: Atharvanic tradition (Jāṅgiḍa-cycle; specific ṛṣi attribution varies by anukramaṇī)

Devata: Jāṅgiḍa (herb/amulet) as the healing power; diseases as adversarial entities

Chandas: Anuṣṭubh (with Atharvanic flexibility)

Mantra Rasa

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