Atharva Veda 9.8.4: Kanda 9, Anuvaka 1, Sukta 8, Mantra 4

Sukta 8

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

यः कृ॒णोति॑ प्र॒मोत॑म॒न्धं कृ॒णोति॒ पूरु॑षम्। सर्वं॑ शीर्ष॒ण्यंऽ ते॒ रोगं॑ ब॒हिर्निर्म॑न्त्रयामहे

IAST Transliteration

yáḥ kṛṇóti prámotam ándhaṁ kṛṇóti pū́ruṣam | sárvaṁ śīrṣáṇyaṁ te rógaṁ bahír nírmantrayāmahe

English Translation (Griffith/Whitney)

What maketh a man prostrate, what maketh him blind—all thy cranial disease forth, outward, do we conjure away.

Translation

जो मनुष्याला कोसळवतो, जो त्याला आंधळा करतो—हे (रोगा)! तुझा शिरोभागाशी संबंधित सर्व रोग आम्ही मंत्रबळाने बाहेर, दूर हाकलून देतो।

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Word by Word

• यः: who (he who)
• यः: Kartā
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: यद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• कृणोति: makes, does
• कृणोति: Kriyā
• Type: Verb
• Root: कृ (करोति) धातु

• प्रमोततम्: the most stupefying/most deluding (thing/state)
• प्रमोततम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective (superlative) / Noun-like
• Root: प्र-मोत-तम (प्रातिपदिक; ‘प्रमोत’ + तमप्)

• अन्धम्: blindness; the blind (one)
• अन्धम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective / Noun
• Root: अन्ध (प्रातिपदिक)

• कृणोति: makes
• कृणोति: Kriyā
• Type: Verb
• Root: कृ (करोति) धातु

• पूरुषम्: a man, person
• पूरुषम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: पूरुष (पुरुष) (प्रातिपदिक)

• सर्वम्: all, the whole
• सर्वम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective (used substantively) / Pronoun-like
• Root: सर्व (प्रातिपदिक)

• शीर्षण्याम्: (disease) of the head; head-affecting
• शीर्षण्याम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: शीर्षण्य (प्रातिपदिक)

• ते: your, of you
• ते: Sambandha
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: त्वद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• रोगम्: disease
• रोगम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: रोग (प्रातिपदिक)

• बहिः: out, outside
• बहिः: Adhikaraṇa (direction) / Apādāna (as ‘out’)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: बहिस् (अव्यय-प्रातिपदिक)

• निर्मन्त्रयामहे: we conjure/banish by incantation; we exorcise
• निर्मन्त्रयामहे: Kriyā
• Type: Verb
• Root: नि + मन्त्रय् (मन्त्रयते) धातु

Attribution

Rishi: Atharvanic tradition (unspecified in the provided excerpt)

Devata: Healing power; roga as adversary affecting head and senses

Chandas: Virāḍ-Anuṣṭubh (hymn metrical profile per input)

Mantra Rasa

Primary: karuna

Secondary: shanta