Atharva Veda 9.8.4: Kanda 9, Anuvaka 1, Sukta 8, Mantra 4

Sukta 8

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

यः कृ॒णोति॑ प्र॒मोत॑म॒न्धं कृ॒णोति॒ पूरु॑षम्। सर्वं॑ शीर्ष॒ण्यंऽ ते॒ रोगं॑ ब॒हिर्निर्म॑न्त्रयामहे

IAST Transliteration

yáḥ kṛṇóti prámotam ándhaṁ kṛṇóti pū́ruṣam | sárvaṁ śīrṣáṇyaṁ te rógaṁ bahír nírmantrayāmahe

English Translation (Griffith/Whitney)

What maketh a man prostrate, what maketh him blind—all thy cranial disease forth, outward, do we conjure away.

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Word by Word

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

• कृणोति: makes, does
• कृणोति: Kriyā
• Type: Verb
• Root: कृ (करोति) धातु

• प्रमोततम्: the most stupefying/most deluding (thing/state)
• प्रमोततम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective (superlative) / Noun-like
• Root: प्र-मोत-तम (प्रातिपदिक; ‘प्रमोत’ + तमप्)

• अन्धम्: blindness; the blind (one)
• अन्धम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective / Noun
• Root: अन्ध (प्रातिपदिक)

• कृणोति: makes
• कृणोति: Kriyā
• Type: Verb
• Root: कृ (करोति) धातु

• पूरुषम्: a man, person
• पूरुषम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: पूरुष (पुरुष) (प्रातिपदिक)

• सर्वम्: all, the whole
• सर्वम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective (used substantively) / Pronoun-like
• Root: सर्व (प्रातिपदिक)

• शीर्षण्याम्: (disease) of the head; head-affecting
• शीर्षण्याम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: शीर्षण्य (प्रातिपदिक)

• ते: your, of you
• ते: Sambandha
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: त्वद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

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

• बहिः: out, outside
• बहिः: Adhikaraṇa (direction) / Apādāna (as ‘out’)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: बहिस् (अव्यय-प्रातिपदिक)

• निर्मन्त्रयामहे: we conjure/banish by incantation; we exorcise
• निर्मन्त्रयामहे: Kriyā
• Type: Verb
• Root: नि + मन्त्रय् (मन्त्रयते) धातु

Attribution

Rishi: Atharvanic tradition (unspecified in the provided excerpt)

Devata: Healing power; roga as adversary affecting head and senses

Chandas: Virāḍ-Anuṣṭubh (hymn metrical profile per input)

Mantra Rasa

Primary: karuna

Secondary: shanta