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Atharva Veda

Atharva Veda 15.8

Paryāya the eighth

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English · William Dwight Whitney

Paryāya the eighth

He became impassioned (raj); thence was born the noble (rājanyà).

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English · William Dwight Whitney

He arose toward (abhi॰) the tribes (víç), the kinsmen, food, food-eating.

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Verily both of the tribes and of the kinsmen and of food and of food-eating doth he become the dear abode 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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