Atharva-Veda Samhita/Book VII/Hymn 32 (33)

32 (33). Homage to Soma (?).

[Brahman.—āyuṣyam. ānuṣṭubham.]

Found also (except d) in Pāipp. xx. It is, without variant, RV. ix. 67. 29 (which also lacks d). Used by Kāuç. twice (58. 3, 11) in rites for length of life (on account of the concluding pāda), with iii. 31, iv. 13, and other passages, in the ceremony of initiation of a Vedic student. It is reckoned (54. 11, note) to the āyuṣya gaṇa.

Translated: by RV. translators; and Henry, 12, 66; Griffith, i. 342.

1. Unto the dear, wonder-working, young, oblation-increasing one have we gone, bearing homage; long life-time let him make for me.

The verse is in RV. addressed to Soma. The comm. understands it here of Agni. He explains pánipnatam as çabdāyamānaṁ stūyamānaṁ vā.