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Rishi: Atharvanic tradition (often anonymous in such restorative formulas)
Devata: Indriya/Ātman (personified faculties); Agni (as dhīṣṇya fires)
Chandas: Bṛhatī/related (the input notes ‘uṣṇig-bṛhatī’ tradition; metrical confirmation depends on recensional padapāṭha)
这则一颂的复元咒语召回一个人所失或衰减的诸种机能——精力(indriya)、自我本体(ātman)、财富(draviṇa)以及婆罗门的威能(brāhmaṇa/“梵力”)。又祈请诸 dhīṣṇya 圣火使一切“各安其位”,使此颂既为个人重整复苏之护符,亦为家内祭仪秩序复归之咒法。
It is used to call back a person’s vigor and sense of self after illness, shock, depletion, or loss—along with prosperity and sacred efficacy—so life and ritual order become stable again.
Because the dhīṣṇya fires represent ‘right placement’ and household order. Asking them to set things “in their proper station” symbolically re-seats the person’s scattered faculties and fortunes.
Not necessarily. The verse is designed as a compact spoken restoration; if available, reciting near a clean household fire (with a small offering or water sprinkling) supports the hymn’s theme of re-ordering and return.
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