Atharva Veda 7.73.4: Kanda 7, Anuvaka 8, Sukta 73, Mantra 4

Sukta 73

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

यदु॒स्रिया॒स्वाहु॑तं घृ॒तं पयो॒ऽयं स वा॑मश्विना भा॒ग आ ग॑तम्। माध्वी॑ धर्तारा विदथस्य सत्पती त॒प्तं घ॒र्मं पि॑बतं रोच॒ने दि॒वः

Recitation with translationAtharva Veda 7.73.4

IAST Transliteration

yád usríyā svā́hāhutaṃ ghṛtáṃ páyo ayáṃ sá vāṃ aśvinā bhāgá ā́ gatam | mādhvī́ dhartārā vidathásya satpátī táptaṃ gharmáṃ píbatam rocané diváḥ

English Translation (Griffith/Whitney)

What milk and butter, cow-born, is offered with Svāhā—this is your portion, O Aśvins: come hither. O honey-sweet sustainers, true lords of the rite’s assembly, drink the heated Gharma in the shining realm of heaven.

Translation

ഗോജന്യമായ പാൽയും നെയ്യും സ്വാഹാ സഹിതം ഹുതമാക്കപ്പെടുന്നതു—അതുതന്നെ നിങ്ങളുടെ ഭാഗം, ഹേ അശ്വിന്മാരേ; ഇവിടെ വരുവിൻ. ഹേ മാധ്വീ (മധുര) ധർത്താക്കളേ, വിധഥ (യജ്ഞസഭ)യുടെ സത്പതിമാരേ, ദിവ്യത്തിന്റെ പ്രകാശലോകത്തിൽ തപ്ത ഘർമം പാനം ചെയ്‍വിൻ.

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Word by Word

• यत्: which/that
• यत्: Karma (यत् = ‘which/that’ referring to offering)
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: यद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• उस्रियासु: among the cows / in the (milk-)cows
• उस्रियासु: Adhikaraṇa
• Type: Noun
• Root: उस्रिया (प्रातिपदिक)

• आहुतम्: offered, oblated
• आहुतम्: Karma (offered thing)
• Type: Participle
• Root: √हु (जुहोति) + आ- (उपसर्ग); क्त (कृदन्त) → आहुत

• घृतम्: ghee
• घृतम्: Karma (apposition to offering)
• Type: Noun
• Root: घृत (प्रातिपदिक)

• पयः: milk
• पयः: Karma (apposition)
• Type: Noun
• Root: पयस् (प्रातिपदिक)

• अयम्: this (one/this)
• अयम्: Kartā (of ‘is’ understood)
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: इदम् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• सः: that
• सः: Kartā (correlative: ‘that’)
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• वाम्: of you two / for you two
• वाम्: Sampradāna (to/for you two) / Genitive relation
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: युष्मद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• अश्विना: O Aśvins (you two)
• अश्विना: Sampradāna/Address
• Type: Noun (dual deity name)
• Root: अश्विन् (प्रातिपदिक)

• भागः: share, portion
• भागः: Kartā (predicate-noun: ‘is a share’)
• Type: Noun
• Root: भाग (प्रातिपदिक)

• आ: hither, towards
• आ: —
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: आ (उपसर्ग/अव्यय)

• गतम्: come / having come
• गतम्: (Predicate/imperatival usage)
• Type: Participle
• Root: √गम् + क्त (कृदन्त) → गत

• माध्वी: honey-sweet, mead-like
• माध्वी: Karma (as object-quality of what is to be drunk)
• Type: Adjective/Noun
• Root: माध्वी (प्रातिपदिक)

• धर्तारा: the two supporters/bearers
• धर्तारा: Kartā (addressed agents)
• Type: Noun
• Root: √धृ (धरति) → धर्तृ (प्रातिपदिक)

• विदथस्य: of the rite/assembly (vidatha)
• विदथस्य: Genitive relation
• Type: Noun
• Root: विदथ (प्रातिपदिक)

• सत्पती: two true lords/masters
• सत्पती: Kartā/Address
• Type: Noun (compound)
• Root: सत् + पति (समास-प्रातिपदिक)

• तप्तम्: heated, hot
• तप्तम्: Karma (object of ‘drink’)
• Type: Participle
• Root: √तप् (तपति) + क्त → तप्त

• घर्मम्: hot drink/gharma (heated offering)
• घर्मम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: घर्म (प्रातिपदिक)

• पिबतम्: drink (you two)!
• पिबतम्: (Kartā = you two)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √पा (पिबति)

• रोचने: in the shining realm
• रोचने: Adhikaraṇa
• Type: Noun
• Root: रोचन (प्रातिपदिक)

• दिवः: of heaven/sky
• दिवः: Genitive relation
• Type: Noun
• Root: दिव् (प्रातिपदिक)

Attribution

Rishi: Anukramaṇī confirmation required.

Devata: Aśvins.

Chandas: To be confirmed by scan (likely triṣṭubh/jagatī).

Mantra Rasa

Primary: adbhuta

Secondary: shanta