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Atharva Veda

Atharva Veda 1.3

Against obstruction of urine: with a reed

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Against obstruction of urine: with a reed

We know the reed's father, Parjanya of hundredfold virility; with that will I make weal (çám) for thy body; on the earth [be] thine outpouring, out of thee, with a splash!

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We know the reed's father, Mitra of hundredfold virility; with that will etc. etc.

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We know the reed's father, Varuṇa of etc. etc.

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We know the reed's father, the moon of etc. etc.

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We know the reed's father, the sun of etc. etc.

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What in thine entrails, thy (two) groins (? gavīnī́), what in thy bladder has flowed together—so be thy urine released, out of thee, with a splash! all of it.

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I split up thy urinator, like the weir of a tank—so be thy etc. etc.

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Unfastened [be] thy bladder-orifice, like [that] of a water-holding sea—so be thy etc. etc.

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As the arrow flew forth, let loose from the bow—so be thy etc. etc.

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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).

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 ↗

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