Atharva Veda 5.18.7: Kanda 5, Anuvaka 2, Sukta 18, Mantra 7

Sukta 18

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

श॒तापा॑ष्ठां॒ नि गि॑रति॒ तां न श॑क्नोति निः॒खिद॑म्। अन्नं॒ यो ब्र॒ह्मणां॑ म॒ल्वः स्वा॒द्व॑१द्मीति॒ मन्य॑ते

Recitation with translationAtharva Veda 5.18.7

IAST Transliteration

śatā́pāṣṭhāṃ ní girati tā́ṃ ná śaknóti níḥkhidam | ánnaṃ yó bráhmaṇāṃ málvaḥ svā́du ádmīti mányate ||

English Translation (Griffith/Whitney)

He swallows the hundred-barbed thing, and cannot cast it forth again. The Malva who thinks, ‘Sweetly I eat the Brahmins’ food’—

Translation

เขากลืนสิ่งที่มีหนามร้อยอันเข้าไป แล้วก็ไม่อาจคายออกมาได้อีก ผู้ชื่อมัลวะ (Malva) ผู้คิดว่า “เรากินอาหารของพราหมณ์อย่างหวานชื่น” —

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Word by Word

• शतापाष्ठाम्: (a) ‘hundred-planked’ (thing), i.e., a very large/solid mass (metaph.)
• शतापाष्ठाम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: शत-पाष्ठा (प्रातिपदिक)

• नि: down, in, into
• नि: —
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: नि (उपसर्ग/अव्यय)

• गिरति: swallows, gulps down
• गिरति: —
• Type: Verb
• Root: गॄ (गिर्) ‘निगरणे/ग्रसने’

• ताम्: that (her/it)
• ताम्: Karma
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• न: not
• न: —
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: न (निषेध)

• शक्नोति: is able, can
• शक्नोति: —
• Type: Verb
• Root: शक् ‘शक्तौ’

• निःखिदम्: (as) complete exhaustion / utter dejection
• निःखिदम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: निः-खिद् (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक; ‘खिद्’ ‘क्लेशे/दैन्ये’)

• अन्नम्: food
• अन्नम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: अन्न (प्रातिपदिक)

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

• ब्राह्मणानाम्: of the Brahmins
• ब्राह्मणानाम्: सम्बन्ध (Genitive) / षष्ठी-सम्बन्ध
• Type: Noun
• Root: ब्राह्मण (प्रातिपदिक)

• मल्वः: a Malva-man (outsider/foreigner); ‘the Malva’
• मल्वः: Kartā (यः … मल्वः) / विशेष्य
• Type: Noun/Adjective
• Root: मल्व (प्रातिपदिक; जाति/देशवाचक-विशेषण) अथवा ‘मल्व’ (व्यक्तिवाचक)

• स्वादु: sweet, pleasant
• स्वादु: —
• Type: Adjective
• Root: स्वादु (प्रातिपदिक)

• वद्मि: I say / I speak
• वद्मि: —
• Type: Verb
• Root: वद् ‘वचने’

• इति: thus, ‘…’ (quotative)
• इति: —
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इति (उक्तिसूचक-अव्यय)

• मन्यते: thinks, supposes
• मन्यते: —
• Type: Verb
• Root: मन् ‘मन्यते/बुध्यते’ (मन्य्) ‘ज्ञाने/सम्माने’

Attribution

Rishi: Atharvanic tradition

Devata: Brahman/Taboo potency (implicit); no single named deity foregrounded

Chandas: Anuṣṭubh (probable)

Mantra Rasa

Primary: bibhatsa

Secondary: bhayankara