Atharva Veda 9.6.13: Kanda 9, Anuvaka 1, Sukta 6, Mantra 13

Sukta 6

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

यद॑शन॒कृतं॒ ह्वय॑न्ति हवि॒ष्कृत॑मे॒व तद्ध्व॑यन्ति

IAST Transliteration

yád aśanakṛtáṃ hváyanti haviṣkṛtám evá tád dhváyanti

English Translation (Griffith/Whitney)

What they call ‘made for eating,’ that—verily the same—they call ‘made into an oblation.’

Translation

สิ่งที่เขาเรียกว่า “ทำไว้เพื่อกิน” นั่นเอง—แท้จริงสิ่งเดียวกันนั้น—เขาเรียกว่า “ทำให้เป็นเครื่องบูชา (havis)”

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Word by Word

• यत्: that which / whatever
• यत्: कर्म (यत् = ‘यत्/यद् वस्तु’—ह्वयन्ति इत्यस्य कर्म) अथवा सम्बन्ध-निर्देशक (यद्…तद्)
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: यद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक) / यद्-शब्द

• अशनकृतम्: (that) made for eating / food-prepared (offering)
• अशनकृतम्: कर्म (ह्वयन्ति—‘अशनकृतम्’ इति नाम्ना यत् वस्तु आह्वयन्ति)
• Type: Noun/Adjective
• Root: अशनकृत् (प्रातिपदिक; अशन + कृत्) अथवा कृत्-प्रत्ययान्त ‘कृत’ (कृ-धातु) समास/तत्पुरुष-भावः

• ह्वयन्ति: they call / invoke
• ह्वयन्ति: क्रिया (मुख्य क्रियापद)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √ह्वा (आह्वाने) / ह्वयति

• हविष्कृतम्: (that) made into an oblation / prepared as havis
• हविष्कृतम्: कर्म (ह्वयन्ति—‘हविष्कृतम्’ इति नाम्ना)
• Type: Noun/Adjective
• Root: हविष्कृत् (प्रातिपदिक; हविस् + कृत्) अथवा ‘कृत’ (√कृ) कृदन्त-आधारित

• एव: indeed / just
• एव: सम्बन्ध/विशेषण-निपात (एव = ‘ही/एवमेव’ बलार्थक)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: एव (निपात)

• तत्: that (same)
• तत्: कर्म (तत्…ह्वयन्ति—‘that (same thing)’) तथा यद्-तद्-सम्बन्ध
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक) / तद्-शब्द

• ह्वयन्ति: they call / invoke
• ह्वयन्ति: क्रिया
• Type: Verb
• Root: √ह्वा (आह्वाने) / ह्वयति

Attribution

Rishi: Atharvanic tradition (Anukramaṇī attribution not supplied in input; commonly anonymous/ritual-technological in AV 9)

Devata: Ritual speech-act / Havis (sacrificial oblation as category)

Chandas: Prose-like/Anuṣṭubh tendency (short pāda-like cadence; exact meter uncertain from isolated line)

Mantra Rasa

Primary: shanta