उपनिषद् · Atharvaśiras 19
॥
देवनागरी
यो वै रुद्रः स भगवान् यच् च तेजस् तस्मै वै नमोनमः
लिप्यंतरण (IAST)
yo vai rudraḥ sa bhagavān yac ca tejas 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
यत् च तेजःyat ca tejaḥand which is the fire-heat; and that which is tejas
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 heat and radiance. To Him be homage and homage.
संस्करण
1ec2e9111c88 · प्रकाशित 29 जुल॰ 2026, 3:17:52 am UTC
उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
Tejas is a word with no single equivalent: heat, and lustre, and edge, and that dignity by which a man seems luminous.
In the first section Rudra named himself both the waters and tejas, and the last words of that section were: “I satiate with my own fire”, svena tejasā.
There, that is, tejas was no element but His own power.
Here it is named among the rest — and in this is the litany's whole method. It does not sort out what in the list belongs to Him as attribute and what as creation: all is named alike.
Paired with the previous section, the ancient dyad emerges: the waters and the heat, the moist and the burning. On it stands the doctrine of the five fires and the whole rite of libation.
The next section will name what is older than both waters and heat — time.