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Atharva Veda 16.5

Paryāya the fifth

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English · William Dwight Whitney

Paryāya the fifth

⌊1.⌋ We know thy place of birth (janítra), O sleep; thou art son of seizure (grā́hi), agent of Yama; ⌊2.⌋ ender art thou, death art thou; ⌊3.⌋ so, O sleep, do we comprehend thee here; do thou, O sleep, protect us from evil-dreaming.

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⌊4.⌋ We know thy place of birth, O sleep; thou art son of perdition, agent etc. etc.

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⌊5.⌋ We know thy place of birth, O sleep; thou art son of ill-success (ábhūti), agent etc. etc.

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⌊6.⌋ We know thy place of birth, O sleep; thou art son of extermination (nírbhūti), agent etc. etc.

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⌊7.⌋ We know thy place of birth, O sleep; thou art son of calamity (párābhūti), agent etc. etc.

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⌊8.⌋ We know thy place of birth, O sleep; thou art son of the wives (-jāmí) of the gods, agent of Yama; ⌊9.⌋ ender art thou, death art thou; ⌊10.⌋ so, O sleep, do we comprehend thee here; do thou, O sleep, protect us from evil-dreaming.

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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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