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Atharva Veda

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499Atharva Veda 15.15Paryāya the fifteenth 500Atharva Veda 15.16Paryāya the sixteenth 501Atharva Veda 15.17Paryāya the seventeenth 502Atharva Veda 15.18Paryāya the eighteenth 503Atharva Veda 16.1Paryāya the first 504Atharva Veda 16.2Paryāya the second 505Atharva Veda 16.3Paryāya the third 506Atharva Veda 16.4Paryāya the fourth 507Atharva Veda 16.5Paryāya the fifth 508Atharva Veda 16.6Paryāya the sixth 509Atharva Veda 16.7Paryāya the seventh 510Atharva Veda 16.8Paryāya the eighth 511Atharva Veda 16.9Paryāya the ninth 512Atharva Veda 17.1Prayer and praise to Indra and the Sun 513Atharva Veda 18.1⌊Funeral verses.⌋514Atharva Veda 18.2⌊Funeral verses.⌋515Atharva Veda 18.3⌊Funeral verses.⌋516Atharva Veda 18.4⌊Funeral verses.⌋

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Atharva Veda 16.2

Paryāya the second

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

nir durarmaṇya ūrjā madhumatī vāk

English · William Dwight Whitney

Paryāya the second

Out of evil-eating (?) with refreshment [comes] speech rich in honey.

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

madhumatī stha madhumatīṃ vācam udeyam

English · William Dwight Whitney

Rich in honey are ye; may I speak speech rich in honey.

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

upahūto me gopāḥ upahūto gopīthaḥ

English · William Dwight Whitney

Invoked of me [is] the guardian (gopā́); invoked [is] guardianship.

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

suśrutau karṇau bhadraśrutau karṇau bhadraṃ ślokaṃ śrūyāsam

English · William Dwight Whitney

Well-hearing ears, ears hearing what is excellent; may I hear excellent encomium (çlóka).

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

suśrutiś ca mopaśrutiś ca mā hāsiṣṭāṃ sauparṇaṃ cakṣur ajasraṃ jyotiḥ

English · William Dwight Whitney

Let both well-hearing and listening (úpaçruti) not desert me—eagle-like sight, unfailing light.

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

ṛṣīṇāṃ prastaro 'si namo 'stu daivāya prastarāya

English · William Dwight Whitney

Spread (prastará) of the seers art thou; homage be to the spread of the divine ones (dāíva).

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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 ↗