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Atharva Veda

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21Atharva Veda 1.21Against enemies 22Atharva Veda 1.22Against yellowness (jaundice)23Atharva Veda 1.23Against leprosy: with a healing herb 24Atharva Veda 1.24Against leprosy 25Atharva Veda 1.25Against fever (takmán)26Atharva Veda 1.26For protection from the wrath of the gods 27Atharva Veda 1.27Against various evils 28Atharva Veda 1.28Against sorcerers and witches 29Atharva Veda 1.29For a chief's success: with an amulet 30Atharva Veda 1.30For protection: to all the gods 31Atharva Veda 1.31To the divine guardians of the quarters 32Atharva Veda 1.32Cosmogonic 33Atharva Veda 1.33To the waters: for blessings 34Atharva Veda 1.34A love-spell: with a sweet herb 35Atharva Veda 1.35For long life etc.: with a gold amulet 36Atharva Veda 2.1Mystic 37Atharva Veda 2.2To Gandharvas and Apsarases 38Atharva Veda 2.3For relief from flux: with a certain remedy

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Atharva Veda 1.26

For protection from the wrath of the gods

Sanskrit (romanised) · Atharvaveda, Śaunaka (Sanskrit, IAST)

āre 'sāv asmad astu hetir devāso asat āre aśmā yam asyatha

English · William Dwight Whitney

For protection from the wrath of the gods

Far be that from us—may [your] missile (hetí) be, O gods; far the bolt (áçman) which ye hurl.

Sanskrit (romanised) · Atharvaveda, Śaunaka (Sanskrit, IAST)

sakhāsāv asmabhyam astu rātiḥ sakhendro bhagaḥ savitā citrarādhāḥ

English · William Dwight Whitney

Be yon Rāti ('liberality') a companion (sákhi) for us; a companion [be] Indra, Bhaga, Savitar of wondrous favors.

Sanskrit (romanised) · Atharvaveda, Śaunaka (Sanskrit, IAST)

yūyam naḥ pravato napān marutaḥ sūryatvacasaḥ śarma yacchatha saprathāḥ

English · William Dwight Whitney

May ye, issue (nápāt) of the height, sun-skinned Maruts, yield us breadthful protection.

Sanskrit (romanised) · Atharvaveda, Śaunaka (Sanskrit, IAST)

suṣūdata mṛḍata mṛḍayā nas tanūbhyo mayas tokebhyas kṛdhi

English · William Dwight Whitney

Do ye advance [us], be gracious; be thou gracious to our selves (tanū́), show kindness (máyas) to our offspring (toká).

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Atharvaveda, Śaunaka (Sanskrit, IAST)Original · Sanskrit (romanised)

Sanskrit text: Oliver Hellwig, The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (DCS), 2010–2024. CC BY 4.0. · Source ↗

Sanskrit text from The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (DCS) by Oliver Hellwig, 2010–2024, https://github.com/OliverHellwig/sanskrit, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Changes: sentence parts joined per verse; only verses the DCS numbers within Whitney's verse count are included (3522).

Atharva Veda, tr. William Dwight WhitneyTranslation · English · William Dwight Whitney, 1905

W. D. Whitney's literal translation (1905), Books I–XIX. Words in ⌊half-brackets⌋ are his own notes and cross-references to his edition; a few verses he gives only in outline.

William Dwight Whitney (tr.), Atharva-Veda Saṁhitā, revised and edited by Charles Rockwell Lanman, Harvard Oriental Series 7–8 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University, 1905). Public domain. Transcribed and proofread from the scans by English Wikisource volunteers; translation only (critical notes omitted). · Source ↗