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Atharva Veda

Atharva Veda 16.6

Paryāya the sixth

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Paryāya the sixth

We have conquered today, we have won today; we have become guiltless.

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O dawn, of what evil-dreaming we have been afraid, let that fade away (apa-vas).

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Carry that away to him that hates; carry that away to him that curses.

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Whom we hate, and who hates us, to him we make it go.

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Heavenly dawn, in concord with speech; heavenly speech, in concord with dawn;—

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The lord of dawn, in concord with the lord of speech; the lord of speech, in concord with the lord of dawn:—

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Let them carry away for yon man the niggards (arā́ya), the ill-named ones, the sadā́nvās,—

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The kumbhī́kās, the spoilers (dūṣī́kā), the revilers (pī́yaka),—

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Waking evil-dreaming, sleeping evil-dreaming.

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Boons that will not come, plans of non-acquisition, fetters of hatred that does not release:—

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That, O Agni, let the gods carry away for yon man, that he may be impotent (vádhri), faltering, not good (sādhú).

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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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