Atharva Veda 18.3.46 — Kanda 18, Anuvaka 1, Sukta 3, Mantra 46

Sukta 3

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

ये नः॑ पि॒तुः पि॒तरो॒ ये पि॑ताम॒हा अ॑नूजहि॒रे सो॑मपी॒थं वसि॑ष्ठाः । तेभि॑र्य॒मः सं॑ररा॒णो ह॒वींष्यु॒शन्नु॒शद्भिः॑ प्रतिका॒मम॑त्तु

IAST Transliteration

yé naḥ pitúḥ pitáro yé pitāmahā́ anūjahiré somapī́thaṃ vasíṣṭhāḥ | tébhir yamáḥ sáṃrarāṇó havī́ṃṣy uśán uśádbhiḥ pratikā́mam attu

English Translation (Griffith/Whitney)

They who are Fathers of our father, they who are grandfathers, who in succession reached the Soma-drinking—those most excellent: with them let Yama, rejoicing, eat the oblations, himself desiring, with the desirous, according to each wish.

Translation

ผู้ที่เป็นบรรพชนของบิดาเรา ผู้ที่เป็นปู่ย่าตายายของเรา ผู้ที่สืบต่อกันไปถึงการดื่มโสมะ (Soma) — ผู้ประเสริฐยิ่ง ขอให้ยมะ (Yama) ชื่นบานร่วมกับท่านทั้งหลาย แล้วเสวยเครื่องบูชา ด้วยความปรารถนาของตนเอง ร่วมกับผู้ปรารถนา ให้เป็นไปตามความประสงค์ของแต่ละคน

Word by Word

• ये: who (those who)
• ये: Kartā
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: यद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक) → य-

• नः: of us / our
• नः: Sampradāna
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: अस्मद् (सर्वनाम) → नस्

• पितुः: of (our) father
• पितुः: Sambandha
• Type: Noun
• Root: पितृ (प्रातिपदिक)

• पितरः: fathers, forefathers
• पितरः: Kartā
• Type: Noun
• Root: पितृ (प्रातिपदिक)

• ये: who
• ये: Kartā
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: यद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक) → य-

• पितामहाः: grandfathers
• पितामहाः: Kartā
• Type: Noun
• Root: पितामह (प्रातिपदिक)

• अनूजहिरे: have followed/come after (in succession)
• अनूजहिरे: Kriyā
• Type: Verb
• Root: √जॄ/√जॄ (जॄ = ‘to grow old/decay’; here Vedic perfect/preterite with anu-; traditional pada-text reads as anu-ūjahi-re)

• सोमपीथम्: the Soma-drinking (draught/feast)
• सोमपीथम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: सोम-पीथ (समास; पीथ < √पा ‘to drink’)

• वसिष्ठाः: the Vasiṣṭhas (Vasiṣṭha clan/sages)
• वसिष्ठाः: Kartā
• Type: Noun
• Root: वसिष्ठ (प्रातिपदिक; ऋषिनाम)

• तेभिः: with them / by them
• तेभिः: Karaṇa
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम) → त-

• यमः: Yama
• यमः: Kartā
• Type: Noun
• Root: यम (प्रातिपदिक)

• संरराणः: bringing together / assembling
• संरराणः: Kartā
• Type: Participle
• Root: √रा/√रॄ (Vedic √rā/√rṛ ‘to give/bring’; with sam-; reduplicated present participle)

• हवींषि: oblations
• हवींषि: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: हविस् (प्रातिपदिक)

• उशन्: desiring
• उशन्: Kartā
• Type: Participle
• Root: √वश्/√उश् (Vedic √uś ‘to desire, wish’)

• उशद्भिः: with the desirous (ones)
• उशद्भिः: Karaṇa
• Type: Participle
• Root: √वश्/√उश् (Vedic √uś ‘to desire’)

• प्रतिकामम्: according to (each) desire / as wished
• प्रतिकामम्: Adhikaraṇa
• Type: Adverbial noun
• Root: प्रति-काम (समास; काम < √कम् ‘to desire’)

• अत्तु: let him eat / may he partake
• अत्तु: Kriyā
• Type: Verb
• Root: √अद् (to eat)

Attribution

Rishi: Pitṛ-hymn seer per AV Anukramaṇī tradition (edition-specific)

Devata: Pitaraḥ and Yama

Chandas: Triṣṭubh-like (mixed cadence; consult edition metrical apparatus)

Mantra Rasa

Primary: shanta

Secondary: karuna