Atharva-Veda Samhita/Book VII/Hymn 30 (31)

30 (31). For successful anointing.

[Bhṛgvan̈giras.—dyāvāpṛthivīyam uta pratipādoktadevatākam. bārkatam.]

Not found in Pāipp. Used by Kāuç. (54. 6) in the godāna ceremony, to accompany the anointing of the youth's eyes. Vāit. (10. 5) makes it accompany, in the paçubandha, the anointing of the sacrificial post.

Translated: Henry, 12, 65; Griffith, i. 342.

1. Well anointed for me have heaven-and-earth, well anointed hath Mitra here made [it]; well anointed for me may Brahmaṇaspati, well anointed may Savitar make [it].

The comm. supplies akṣiyugaṁ yūpaṁ vā for svāktam to agree with. The meter is plainly anuṣṭubh.