Atharva Veda 9.6.12: Kanda 9, Anuvaka 1, Sukta 6, Mantra 12

Sukta 6

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

यत् पु॒रा प॑रि॒वेषात् स्वा॒दमा॒हर॑न्ति पुरो॒डाशा॑वे॒व तौ

Recitation with translationAtharva Veda 9.6.12

IAST Transliteration

yát purā́ pariveṣā́t svādám āháranti puroḍā́śāv evá táu

English Translation (Griffith/Whitney)

What, before the serving, they bring as the savoury portion—those two are, in very truth, the Puroḍāśa-cakes.

Translation

പരിവേഷണത്തിന് (പറസുന്ന വിധിക്ക്) മുമ്പ് അവർ രുചികരമായ അംശമായി കൊണ്ടുവരുന്നത്—ആ രണ്ടും സത്യമായും പുരോഡാശ-കേക്കുകളാണ്.

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Word by Word

• यत्: that which; whatever
• यत्: —
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: यद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक) / यत् (सम्बन्ध-निपात)

• पुरा: formerly; earlier
• पुरा: Adhikaraṇa
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: पुरा (अव्यय)

• परिवेषात्: from the serving/distribution (of food); from the portioning
• परिवेषात्: Apādāna
• Type: Noun
• Root: परिवेष (प्रातिपदिक; परि-√विश्/√विष्? → ‘परिवेष’ ‘serving/portioning; distribution’ as noun)

• स्वादम्: the taste; relish
• स्वादम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: स्वाद (प्रातिपदिक; ‘taste, relish’)

• आहरन्ति: they bring; they fetch
• आहरन्ति: —
• Type: Verb
• Root: आ-√हृ (हृञ् हरति)

• पुरोडाशौ: two puroḍāśa-cakes
• पुरोडाशौ: Kartā
• Type: Noun
• Root: पुरोडाश (प्रातिपदिक; sacrificial cake)

• इव: like; as
• इव: —
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इव (अव्यय)

• तौ: those two
• तौ: Kartā
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

Attribution

Rishi: Uncertain from the excerpt alone (requires Anukramaṇī for AVŚ 9.6).

Devata: Puroḍāśa/food-offering principle; ritual distribution as its correlate.

Chandas: Yajus-style identificatory prose.

Mantra Rasa

Primary: shanta

Secondary: shringara