Atharvaveda

AVS 6.61.1

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máhyam ā́po mádhumad érayantāṃ máhyaṃ sū́ro abharaj jyótiṣe kám | máhyaṃ devā́ utá víśve tapojā́ máhyaṃ deváḥ savitā́ vyáco dhāt ||1||

Translation

To me let the waters send what has sweetness; to me the sun brought [it] in order to light; to me the gods, and all those born of penance - to me let god Savitar assign expansion ''vyácas''.

ShelfmarkVG:AV:SAU:K06:S061:V001cited as AVS 6.61.1

Ascribed in the apparatus

The traditional hymn heading, not a statement inside the verse.

rishiAtharvan (?)Inherited from the hymn chandastrāiṣṭubhamInherited from the hymn

Named inside this verse

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Ideas, acts and things

natural phenomenonlight (jyotis)Light as such: the brightness a god makes, finds or gives, distinct from the body that emits it.natural phenomenonwaters (āpaḥ)The waters as a plural collective: rivers, rain and the primeval flood, invoked as mothers and as healers.

Connected passages

No other passage in this corpus carries this wording. That is a statement about the four collections held here, not about the Vedas.

How attribution was recorded1

PER_PASSAGE is an attribution the source states verse by verse; CONTAINER_INHERITED is a containing hymn's label projected onto each of its mantras. The two must not be summed: 15,177 of the 17,889 seer edges are inherited, every one of the Atharvaveda's 5,084 is, and every one of the Yajurveda's 2,240 is source-stated, so a blended total compares a statement of the text against a projection of this build.
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