Atharva-Veda Samhita/Book VII/Hymn 117 (122)

117 (122). Invitation to India.

[Atharvān̄giras.—āindram. pathyābṛhatī.]

Wanting in Pāipp. Used by Kāuç. (59. 14), with hymns 85 and 86, in a rite for welfare; and it is, with 118, reckoned (note to 25. 36) to the svastyayana gaṇa; while a schol. (note to 137. 4) adds it and 118 in the introduction to the ājyatantra; that another uses it with 116 was noted under that hymn. And Vāit. (23. 9) repeats it in the agniṣṭoma with the offering of the hāriyojanagraha.

Translated: Henry, 46, 125; Griffith, i. 384.

1. Come, O Indra, with pleasant peacock-haired bays; let not any hold thee away, as snarers a bird; go over them as [over] a waste.

The verse is RV. iii. 45. 1, found also as SV. i. 246 et al., VS. xx. 53, TA. i. 12. 2. Our (and SPP's) reading yāhí in b agrees with all these, but is against our mss. and all but two of SPP's; they leave the word unaccented. RV.VS. in c have ní, which is plainly the better reading, instead of ví; SV. has the corruption ní yemur ín ná, and TA., yet worse, nyémúr ín ná. ⌊TA. has at the end, corruptly, nidhanvéva tā́ṅ imi.⌋