Mantra 1

Sukta 91

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

यक्ष्मनाशनम्। इमं यवमष्टायोगैः षड्योगेभिरचर्कृषुः । तेना ते तन्वो३रपो ऽपाचीनमप व्यये

IAST Transliteration

imáṃ yávam aṣṭā́-yogaiḥ ṣáḍ-yogébhir acarkṛṣuḥ | ténā te tanvò rápó ’pācī́nam ápa vyaye

English Translation (Griffith/Whitney)

This barley have they compounded with eightfold mixtures, with sixfold mixtures; therewith, from thy body, I drive away the wasting harm, turned backward and sent afar.

Translation

(Bài trừ yakṣman—chứng hao mòn.) Lúa mạch này, họ đã giã và phối hợp bằng tám phần hòa trộn, bằng sáu phần hòa trộn; nhờ đó, từ thân thể ngươi, ta xua đuổi tai hại làm hao mòn (rapas), khiến nó quay ngược lại và bị đẩy đi thật xa.

Word by Word

• यक्ष्मनाशनम्: (a charm/thing) destroying consumption/disease
• यक्ष्मनाशनम्: Karma
• Type: Noun/Adjective
• Root: यक्ष्म-नाशन (प्रातिपदिक; यक्ष्म + नाशन)

• इमम्: this
• इमम्: Karma
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: इदम् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• यवम्: barley
• यवम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: यव (प्रातिपदिक)

• अष्टा: with eight
• अष्टा: Karaṇa
• Type: Numeral
• Root: अष्टन् (संख्या-प्रातिपदिक)

• योगैः: with joinings/ritual applications
• योगैः: Karaṇa
• Type: Noun
• Root: योग (प्रातिपदिक)

• षट्: with six
• षट्: Karaṇa
• Type: Numeral
• Root: षष् (संख्या-प्रातिपदिक)

• योगेभिः: with joinings/ritual applications
• योगेभिः: Karaṇa
• Type: Noun
• Root: योग (प्रातिपदिक)

• अचर्कृषुः: they drew/ploughed/dragged (performed the act)
• अचर्कृषुः: Kartā
• Type: Verb
• Root: कृष् (धातु; ‘to plough/draw/drag’), पुनरुक्त-आओरिस्ट (चर्कृष्)

• तेन: with that; by that
• तेन: Karaṇa
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• ते: for you / of you
• ते: Sampradāna
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: त्वद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• तन्वोः: of/in (your) two bodies; of the body
• तन्वोः: Adhikaraṇa
• Type: Noun
• Root: तनू (प्रातिपदिक)

• अपः: waters (healing waters)
• अपः: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: अप् (प्रातिपदिक)

• अपाचीनम्: backward; away (from you)
• अपाचीनम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अपाचीन (प्रातिपदिक; अप + अच्/अञ्च् ‘to turn’ → ‘turned away/backward’)

• अप: away, off
• अप: —
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अप (उपसर्ग/अव्यय)

• व्यये: go away; depart
• व्यये: Kartā
• Type: Verb
• Root: वि + इ (धातु; ‘to go’), लोट्/विधिलिङ् वैदिक-रूप (व्यये)

Attribution

Rishi: Atharvanic healer tradition

Devata: Bhaiṣajya (medicine) / Yakṣman-removal power (functional devatā)

Chandas: Anuṣṭubh (approx.)

Mantra Rasa

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