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Atharva Veda

Atharva Veda 16.7

Paryāya the seventh

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Paryāya the seventh

With that I pierce him; with ill-success I pierce him; with extermination I pierce him; with calamity I pierce him; with seizure I pierce him; with darkness I pierce him.

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I demand against him with the terrible, cruel demands (prāiṣá) of the gods.

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I set him in the two tusks of Vāiçvānara.

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So, not so, may she swallow down.

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Whoso hates us, him let [his] self (ātmán) hate; whomso we hate, let him hate [his] self.

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Let us disportion our hater from heaven, from earth, from atmosphere.

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O thou of good ways (suyāman), of sight (cākṣuṣá).

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Now (idám) do I wipe off evil-dreaming on him of such-and-such lineage, son of such-and-such a mother.

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What I went at on such-and-such an occasion, what at evening, what in early night;—

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What when awake, what when asleep, what by day, what by night;—

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What day by day I go at, from that do I cut him off (ava-day).

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Him do thou smite, with him amuse thyself (? mand), his ribs do thou crush in.

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Let him not live; him let breath quit.

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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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