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Atharva Veda

Atharva Veda 15.7

Paryāya the seventh

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English · William Dwight Whitney

Paryāya the seventh

That greatness, becoming sessile (? sádru), went to the end of the earth; it became ocean.

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After it, turned out both Prajāpati and the most exalted one and the father and the grandfather and the waters and faith, becoming rain.

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To him come waters, to him cometh faith, to him cometh rain, who knoweth thus.

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Unto it turned about both faith and sacrifice and world and food and food-eating, coming into being (bhūtvā́).

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To him cometh faith, to him cometh sacrifice, to him cometh a world, to him cometh food, to him cometh food-eating, who knoweth thus.

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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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