दीर्घायुत्व (dIrghAyutva)
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Vedic Reference
EnglishDīrghāyutva, ‘longevity, ’ is a constant object of the prayers
of the Vedic Indians, ^1 and length of life is never deprecated in
the Saṃhitās and Brāhmaṇas, while the Atharvaveda^2 is full
of spells intended to prolong existence (āyuṣyāṇi).
1) Rv. x. 62, 2
Av. i. 22, 2, etc.
Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā, xviii. 6
Śata-
patha Brāhmaṇa, i. 9, 1, 13, etc. So
the adjective dīrghāyus, Rv. iv. 15, 9.
10
x. 85, 39
Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā,
xii. 100, etc. The Brāhmaṇas regularly
express the reward for ritual actions
by the phrase sarvam āyur eti, ‘he lives
all his days.’ The ideal of life is 100
years. See Weber, Indische Studien, 17,
193
Festgruss an Roth, 137
Lanman,
Sanskrit Reader, 384.
2) ii. 13
28
29
vii. 32, and many
other hymns. See Bloomfield, Hymns
of the Atharvaveda, 49 et seq.
Atharva-
veda, 63-65.
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