Atharva-Veda Samhita/Book XV/Paryaya 17

17. Paryāya the seventeenth.

[daça. 1, 4. prājāpatyo ’ṣṇih; 2, 7. āsury anuṣṭubh; 3. yājuṣī pan̄kti; 4. sāmny uṣṇih; 6. yājuṣī triṣṭubh; 8. 3-p. pratiṣṭhā ”rcī pan̄kti; 9. 2-p. sāmnī triṣṭubh; 10: sāmny anuṣṭubh.]

Translated: Aufrecht, Ind. Stud. i. 137; Griffith, ii. 198.

1. His out-breathing that is first, that is this earth.

2. His out-breathing that is second, that is the atmosphere.

3. His out-breathing that is third, that is the sky.

4. His out-breathing that is fourth, that is the asterisms.

5. His out-breathing that is fifth, that is the seasons.

6. His out-breathing that is sixth, that is they of the seasons.

7. His out-breathing that is seventh, that is the year.

8. The gods go about the same purpose (ártha); thus (etát) verily the seasons go about after the year and the Vrātya.

One ms. (R.) prefixes tásya vrā́tyasya also to this and the two following verses. ⌊In the Bombay ed., each verse begins with tásya vrā́tyasya and an avasāna-mark: see p. 771, end.⌋ The sense of the three is obscure; Aufrecht leaves them untranslated.

9. As they enter together into the sun (ādityá), just so [do they] also into new-moon day and full-moon day.

The great majority of the mss. (all save Bs.D.K.) accent amāvāsyā́m.

10. One [is] that immortality of theirs: to this effect (íti) [is] the offering.

Except two (D.R.), all the mss. accent éṣām.