Atharva-Veda Samhita/Book VII/Hymn 105 (110)

105 (110). An exhortation to holy life.

[Atharvan.—mantroktadevatyam. ānuṣṭubham.]

Found also in Pāipp. xx. Quoted by Kāug. (55. 16) in the upanayana ceremony, as the teacher takes the pupil by the arm and sets him facing eastward; and the second half-verse later in the same (56. 16), as he makes the pupil turn so as to face him.

Translated: Henry, 41, 117; Griffith, i. 379.

1. Striding away from what is of men, choosing the words (vácas) of the gods, turn thou unto guidances, together with all [thy] companions.}}

Ppp. reads saha for vacas in b, and, for d, devo devānāṁ sakhyā juṣāṇaḥ. The comm. paraphrases praṇītīs by prakṛṣṭanayanādivedabrahmacaryaniyatīḥ.

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