Mantra 1

Sukta 8

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

यक्ष्मनिवारणम्। १५ विराडनुष्टुप्, २१ विराट् पथ्याबृहती, २२ पथ्यापङ्क्तिः। शीर्षक्तिं शीर्षामयं कर्णशूलं विलोहितम्। सर्वं शीर्षण्यंऽ ते रोगं बहिर्निर्मन्त्रयामहे

IAST Transliteration

śīrṣaktíṁ śīrṣāmayáṁ karṇaśūláṁ vílohitaṁ | sárvaṁ śīrṣáṇyaṁ te rógaṁ bahír nírmantrayāmahe

English Translation (Griffith/Whitney)

Head-pain, head-sickness, ear-stabbing, the red (bloody) disorder—all thy cranial disease forth, outward, do we conjure away.

Word by Word

• शीर्षक्तिम्: head-ache / pain of the head
• शीर्षक्तिम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: शीर्षक्ति- (प्रातिपदिक; शीर्षन् + क्ति)

• शीर्षामयम्: disease of the head
• शीर्षामयम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: शीर्षामय- (प्रातिपदिक; शीर्षन् + आमय)

• कर्णशूलम्: ear-ache
• कर्णशूलम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: कर्णशूल- (प्रातिपदिक; कर्ण + शूल)

• विलोहितम्: the ‘reddening’/inflammation (lit. redness)
• विलोहितम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective (used substantively)
• Root: वि-लोहित- (प्रातिपदिक; लोहित ‘red’ with उपसर्ग वि-)

• सर्वम्: all (of it)
• सर्वम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective (used substantively)
• Root: सर्व- (सर्वनाम/विशेषण-प्रातिपदिक)

• शीर्षण्यम्: belonging to the head / cranial
• शीर्षण्यम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: शीर्षण्य- (प्रातिपदिक; शीर्षन् + य)

• ते: of you / your
• ते: Sampradāna
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: युष्मद् (सर्वनाम)

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

• बहिः: out, outside
• बहिः: Adhikaraṇa
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: बहिः (अव्यय)

• निः: out, forth (as preverb intensifying expulsion)
• निः: —
• Type: Indeclinable (preverb)
• Root: निः (उपसर्ग/अव्यय)

• मन्त्रयामहे: we charm/adjure (drive away by spell)
• मन्त्रयामहे: Kartā
• Type: Verb
• Root: मन्त्रय् (धातु; denominative from मन्त्र ‘to utter charms/consult’)

Attribution

Rishi: Atharvanic tradition (unspecified in the provided excerpt)

Devata: Bhaiṣajya/Healing power; disease-expulsion (roga as adversary)

Chandas: Virāḍ-Anuṣṭubh (as indicated in the input for the hymn’s metrical profile)

Mantra Rasa

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