Atharva Veda 19.34.2: Kanda 19, Anuvaka 4, Sukta 34, Mantra 2

Sukta 34

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

या गृत्स्य॑स्त्रिपञ्चा॒शीः श॒तं कृ॑त्या॒कृत॑श्च॒ ये। सर्वा॑न् विनक्तु॒ तेज॑सोऽर॒सां ज॑ङ्गि॒डस्क॑रत्

Recitation with translationAtharva Veda 19.34.2

IAST Transliteration

yā́ gṛ́tsyaḥ tripañcāśī́ḥ śatáṁ kṛtyā́kṛtaś ca yé | sárvān vinaktu téjaso ’rasā́ṁ jaṅgiḍáḥ karat ||

English Translation (Griffith/Whitney)

What greedy ones there be—fifty and three—and a hundred, and those who make the kṛtyā: let Jaṅgiḍa, by its fiery might, pick them all apart, and make them sapless, void of power.

Translation

ലോഭികൾ ആരൊക്കെയുണ്ടോ—ത്രിപഞ്ചാശീ (അമ്പതും മൂന്നും)യും നൂറും, കൂടാതെ കൃത്യാ (kṛtyā) ചെയ്യുന്നവരും—അവരെല്ലാവരെയും ജങ്ഗിഡ (Jaṅgiḍa) തന്റെ തേജസ്സിന്റെ ശക്തിയാൽ പിരിച്ചുതകർക്കട്ടെ; അവരെ രസഹീനരാക്കി, ബലശൂന്യരാക്കി മാറ്റട്ടെ.

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Word by Word

• याः: which (fem. pl.)
• याः: Kartā
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: यद् (sarvanāma-prātipadika)

• गृत्स्यः: the rapacious (female) [forces]
• गृत्स्यः: Kartā
• Type: Noun/Adjective
• Root: गृत्स्य (prātipadika; ‘greedy/rapacious’, used of harmful beings/forces)

• त्रिपञ्चाशीः: fifty-three
• त्रिपञ्चाशीः: Kartā
• Type: Numeral (Adjective)
• Root: त्रिपञ्चाशत् (numeral prātipadika = 53)

• शतम्: a hundred
• शतम्: (apposition/measure to Kartā-group)
• Type: Numeral (Noun/Adjective)
• Root: शत (numeral prātipadika = 100)

• कृत्याकृतः: (those) made as witchcraft/evil spell
• कृत्याकृतः: Kartā
• Type: Compound (Noun + Kṛdanta adjective)
• Root: कृत्या (f.) + कृत (PPP of √कृ ‘to do/make’)

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

• ये: who (masc. pl.)
• ये: Kartā
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: यद् (sarvanāma-prātipadika)

• सर्वान्: all (of them)
• सर्वान्: Karma
• Type: Pronoun/Adjective
• Root: सर्व (prātipadika)

• विनक्तु: let (it) remove/separate
• विनक्तु: (main verb)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √विज्/√विच् (here: ‘to separate, remove, drive away’; Vedic injunctive/imperative-like)

• तेजसः: from (their) fiery power/energy
• तेजसः: Apādāna (source: ‘from the power/heat’)
• Type: Noun
• Root: तेजस् (prātipadika)

• अरासाम्: (them) sapless, powerless
• अरासाम्: Karma (as predicate/object: ‘(make them) sapless’)
• Type: Adjective (used substantively)
• Root: अरास (prātipadika; ‘sapless/essence-less, powerless’)

• जङ्गिडः: the jaṅgiḍa (plant/charm)
• जङ्गिडः: Kartā
• Type: Noun
• Root: जङ्गिड (prātipadika; a medicinal plant/charm ‘jaṅgiḍa’ in AV)

• करत्: may it do/make (so)
• करत्: (aux/main verb with subject जङ्गिडः)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √कृ (to do, make)

Attribution

Rishi: Atharvanic (maṇi/counter-kṛtyā tradition).

Devata: Jaṅgiḍa (as counter-sorcery agent).

Chandas: Anuṣṭubh.

Mantra Rasa

Primary: raudra

Secondary: vira