०५९ शाप-मोचनम्

59 (61). Against cursers.

शाप-मोचनम्।
१ बादरायणिः। अरिनाशनम्। अनुष्टुप्।

[Bādarāyaṇi.—arināśanamantroktadevatākam. ānuṣṭubham.]

Comment

Found also in Pāipp. xx. (as part of our hymn vi. 37). This verse has the same pratīka as vi. 37. 3; but the comm. ⌊on vi. 37, page 70, line 2⌋, doubtless with reason, regards vi. 37. 3 as intended at Kāuś. 48. 37 ⌊Bloomfield there gives both⌋; this hymn, then, is left without ritual use. ⌊In fact, the comm. on this hymn, at p. 418, line 4, does cite yo naḥ śapāt for use in the same rite for which he cited it in his comment on vi. 37.⌋

Translations

Translated: Henry, 23, 86; Griffith, i. 355.

An imprecation

Translation

1. Whoever shall curse us not cursing, and whoever shall curse us
   cursing, like a tree smitten by a thunderbolt, let him dry up from the
   root.

Notes

The first half-verse is vi. 37. 3 a, b, and is found in other
texts* as there referred to. Ppp. has the whole verse as our vi. 37. 3,
and it combines in c, as often, vṛkṣāi ’va. The Anukr. seems to
ratify the contraction vṛkṣe ’va. *⌊See also Kaṭha-hss. p. 74.⌋

The fifth anuvāka ends here; it has 8 hymns and 25 verses; the Anukr.
quotation for the verses is pañcai ’vo ”rdhvaṁ viṅśateḥ pañcame syuḥ,
and, for the hymns, pañcamo ‘ṣṭāu.

Here ends also the sixteenth prapāṭhaka.

Like a tree struck by lightning may the man be withered from the root. Who curseth us who curse not him, or, when we curse him. curseth us.

यः। नः॒। शपा॑त्। अश॑पतः। शप॑तः। यः। च॒। नः॒। शपा॑त्। वृ॒क्षःऽइ॑व। वि॒ऽद्युता॑। ह॒तः। आ। मूला॑त्। अनु॑। शु॒ष्य॒तु॒। ६१.१।

• अरिनाशनम्
• बादरायणिः
• अनुष्टुप्
• शापमोचन सुक्त

कुवचन के त्याग का उपदेश।

पदार्थान्वयभाषाः - (यः) जो (अशपतः) न शाप देनेवाले (नः) हम लोगों को (शपात्) शाप देवे, (च) और (यः) जो (शपतः) शाप देनेवाले (नः) हम लोगों को (शपात्) शाप देवे। (विद्युता) बिजुली से (हतः) मारे गये (वृक्षः इव) वृक्ष के समान वह (आ मूलात्) जड़ से लेकर (अनु) निरन्तर (शुष्यतु) सूख जावे ॥१॥

भावार्थभाषाः - जो दुष्ट धर्मात्माओं में दोष लगावे, राजा उसको यथोचित दण्ड देवे ॥१॥ इस मन्त्र का पूर्वार्द्ध आ चुका है-अ० ६।३७।३ ॥ इति पञ्चमोऽनुवाकः ॥

टिप्पणी: १−(यः) दुष्टः (नः) अस्मान् (शपात्) शपेत्। निन्देत् (अशपतः) अशापिनः (शपतः) शापकारिणः (यः) (च) (नः) (शपात्) (वृक्षः) (इव) (विद्युता) अशन्या (हतः) भस्मीकृतः (आ मूलात्) मूलमारभ्य (अनु) निरन्तरम् (शुष्यतु) शुष्को भवतु ॥