Atharvaveda

AVS 6.70.2

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yáthā hastī́ hastinyā́ḥ padéna padám udyujé | yáthā puṃsó vr̥ṣaṇyatá striyā́ṃ nihanyáte mánaḥ | evā́ te aghnye mánó 'dhi vatsé ní hanyatām ||2||

Translation

As the elephant strains foot with foot of the she-elephant; as of a lustful man the mind is fastened (''ni-han'') on a woman - -so let thy mind, O inviolable one (''aghnyā́''), be fastened on thy calf.

ShelfmarkVG:AV:SAU:K06:S070:V002cited as AVS 6.70.2

Ascribed in the apparatus

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

rishiKān̄kāyanaInherited from the hymn chandasjāgatamInherited from the hymn

Named inside this verse

Insufficient evidence

Ideas, acts and things

philosophical conceptmind (manas)Mind as the seat of intention and attention, something that can go away and be called back.

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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