Atharva-Veda Samhita/Book VII/Hymn 103 (108)

103 (108). For betterment.

[Brahman.—ātmadāivatam. trāiṣṭubham.]

Found also in Paipp. xx. Used by Kāuç. (59. 19) with hymn 17 etc. (see under 17).

Translated: Ludwig, p. 269; Henry, 41, 116; Griffith, i. 378.—Cf. Bloomfield, AJP. xvii. 408-9.

1. What Kshatriya, seeking betterment, shall lead us up out of this reproachful hate—who that desires sacrifice, or who that desires bestowal? who wins long life-time among the gods?

This is apparently the appeal of a Brahman seeking employment (so Ludwig also). The comm. (also Ppp.) reads vanate in d; he gives alternative conjectural explanations, and tries, of course, on account of the repeated ka, to bring the verse into connection with Prajāpati (Ka). Ppp. further has no ‘syā in a, and kaṣ pūr. ko yaj. in c.