उपनिषद् · Atharvaśiras 11
॥
देवनागरी
यो वै रुद्रः स भगवान् ये चाष्टौ प्रतिग्रहास् तस्मै वै नमोनमः
लिप्यंतरण (IAST)
yo vai rudraḥ sa bhagavān ye cāṣṭau pratigrahās tasmai vai namonamaḥ
शब्दशः अर्थ
संस्कृतIASTअर्थ
यः वै रुद्रःyaḥ vai rudraḥhe who is Rudra; the one who is Rudra
सः भगवान्saḥ bhagavānhe is the Lord; he indeed is the Bhagavān
ये च अष्टौ प्रतिग्रहाःye ca aṣṭau pratigrahāḥand which are the eight receivers; and those that are the eight pratigrahas
तस्मै वै नमः नमःtasmai vai namaḥ namaḥto him be homage and homage; to him obeisance and obeisance
अनुवाद
He who is Rudra — He is the Lord, and He is the eight receivers. To Him be homage and homage.
संस्करण
f2156a891604 · प्रकाशित 29 जुल॰ 2026, 3:17:52 am UTC
उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
The tenth name is “the eight pratigrahas”, and it is dark.
Pratigraha means “acceptance, the receiving of a gift”; in the rite it is both the cup from which one sips in reply and the very custom of accepting an offering.
If the previous section named the eight drawing-cups, this one names the eight receiving ones: that with which one takes, and that with which one gives back.
There is another reading: the pratigrahas are counteracting powers, those that ward off the seizers. Then the pair comes out thus: eight that take hold of a man and eight that beat them off.
To choose between the readings by this one word is impossible, and I will not pretend it can be done.
The general structure matters more. The litany has now twice set a pair of opposites side by side: sun and moon, seizers and receivers. And each time both halves are referred to One.
The first section said the same in the first person: “I am the imperishable and the perishable”, “I am man, non-man and women”. The book consistently takes opposites in pairs.