Atharva Veda 6.90.2: Kanda 6, Anuvaka 9, Sukta 90, Mantra 2

Sukta 90

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

यास्ते॑ श॒तं ध॒मन॒योऽङ्गा॒न्यनु॒ विष्ठि॑ताः । तासां॑ ते॒ सर्वा॑सां व॒यं निर्वि॒षाणि॑ ह्वयामसि

Sanskrit recitationAtharva Veda 6.90.2

IAST Transliteration

yā́s te śatáṃ dhamánayo ’ṅgā́ny ánu víṣṭhitāḥ | tā́sāṃ te sárvāsāṃ vayáṃ nirviṣā́ṇi hvayāmasi

English Translation (Griffith/Whitney)

What hundred channels of thine are stretched along the members—of them all, for thee, we call in the poisonless powers, the antidotal release.

Translation

నీ శరీరమున ఉన్న శత ధమనులు (నాడీ-మార్గములు) అంగముల వెంట వ్యాపించి నిలిచియున్నవి. వాటన్నిటికై, ఓ రుద్రా, మేము విషరహితమగు శక్తులను—విషనివారణ, ప్రతివిష-విమోచనమును—ఆహ్వానించుచున్నాము.

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Word by Word

• याः: which (fem. pl.)
• याः: Kartā
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: यद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• ते: your
• ते: Sambandha (genitive relation)
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: युष्मद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• शतम्: a hundred
• शतम्: Viśeṣaṇa (of ‘धमनयः’)
• Type: Numeral/Adjective
• Root: शत (संख्या-प्रातिपदिक)

• धमनयः: channels/tubes; (esp.) veins/ducts
• धमनयः: Kartā (relative clause subject)
• Type: Noun
• Root: धमनि (प्रातिपदिक)

• अङ्गानि: limbs; body-parts
• अङ्गानि: Karma (with ‘अनु’)
• Type: Noun
• Root: अङ्ग (प्रातिपदिक)

• अनु: along; throughout
• अनु: Upapada (governs accusative; distributive ‘along/throughout’)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अनु (उपसर्ग/अव्यय)

• विष्ठिताः: set/placed; distributed
• विष्ठिताः: Kartā (agreeing with ‘धमनयः’)
• Type: Participle (Adjective)
• Root: वि-स्था (धातु √स्था) → ‘विष्ठित’ (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक)

• तासाम्: of those (fem.)
• तासाम्: Sambandha (genitive relation)
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• ते: to you
• ते: Sampradāna
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: युष्मद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• सर्वासाम्: of all
• सर्वासाम्: Viśeṣaṇa (of ‘तासाम्’)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सर्व (प्रातिपदिक)

• वयम्: we
• वयम्: Kartā
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: अस्मद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• निर्विषाणि: (as) poisonless; free from poison
• निर्विषाणि: Karma (what is invoked/called as a state/boon)
• Type: Adjective (predicative) / (possible verbal-noun usage)
• Root: निर्-√विष् / विष (प्रातिपदिक ‘विष’ + निर्-; interpreted as ‘free from poison’)

• ह्वयामसि: we invoke/call
• ह्वयामसि: Kriyā (finite verb)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √ह्वे (ह्वयति) / √ह्वा ‘to call, invoke’

Attribution

Rishi: Atharvanic healing tradition (anonymous/collective)

Devata: Nirviṣa (antidotal purity) invoked; implicitly Rudra’s affliction is countered

Chandas: Anuṣṭubh (approx.)

Mantra Rasa

Primary: shanta

Secondary: bhayankara