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Atharva Veda 16.8

Paryāya the eighth

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Paryāya the eighth

⌊1.⌋ Ours [is] what is conquered, ours what has shot up, ours right (ṛtá), ours brilliancy, ours bráhman, ours heaven (svàr), ours the sacrifice, ours cattle, ours progeny, ours heroes. ⌊2.⌋ From that we disportion him yonder: so-and-so, of such-and-such lineage, son of such-and-such mother, who is yonder; ⌊3.⌋ let him not be released from the fetter of seizure. ⌊4.⌋ Of him now (idám) I involve the splendor, brilliancy, breath, lifetime; now I make him fall downward.

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⌊5.⌋ Ours is etc. etc.; let him not be released from the fetter of perdition. Of him now etc. etc.

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⌊6.⌋ Ours is etc. etc.; let him not be released from the fetter of ill-success. Of him now etc. etc.

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⌊7.⌋ Ours is etc. etc.; let him not be released from the fetter of extermination. Of him now etc. etc.

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⌊8.⌋ Ours is etc. etc.; let him not be released from the fetter of calamity. Of him now etc. etc.

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⌊9.⌋ Ours is etc. etc.; let him not be released from the fetter of the wives of the gods. Of him now etc. etc.

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⌊10.⌋ Ours is etc. etc.; let him not be released from the fetter of Brihaspati. Of him now etc. etc.

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⌊11.⌋ Ours is etc. etc.; let him not be released from the fetter of Prajāpati. Of him now etc. etc.

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⌊12.⌋ Ours is etc. etc.; let him not be released from the fetter of the seers. Of him now etc. etc.

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⌊13.⌋ Ours is etc. etc.; let him not be released from the fetter of them of the seers. Of him now etc. etc.

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⌊14.⌋ Ours is etc. etc.; let him not be released from the fetter of the Angirases. Of him now etc. etc.

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⌊15.⌋ Ours is etc. etc.; let him not be released from the fetter of them of the Angirases. Of him now etc. etc.

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⌊16.⌋ Ours is etc. etc.; let him not be released from the fetter of the Atharvans. Of him now etc. etc.

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⌊17.⌋ Ours is etc. etc.; let him not be released from the fetter of them of the Atharvans. Of him now etc. etc.

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⌊18.⌋ Ours is etc. etc.; let him not be released from the fetter of the forest trees. Of him now etc. etc.

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⌊19.⌋ Ours is etc. etc.; let him not be released from the fetter of them of the forest trees. Of him now etc. etc.

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⌊20.⌋ Ours is etc. etc.; let him not be released from the fetter of the seasons. Of him now etc. etc.

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⌊21.⌋ Ours is etc. etc.; let him not be released from the fetter of them of the seasons. Of him now etc. etc.

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⌊22.⌋ Ours is etc. etc.; let him not be released from the fetter of the months. Of him now etc. etc.

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⌊23.⌋ Ours is etc. etc.; let him not be released from the fetter of the half-months. Of him now etc. etc.

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⌊24.⌋ Ours is etc. etc.; let him not be released from the fetter of day-and-night. Of him now etc. etc.

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⌊25.⌋ Ours is etc. etc.; let him not be released from the fetter of the two congruent (sam-yánt) days. Of him now etc. etc.

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⌊26.⌋ Ours is etc. etc.; let him not be released from the fetter of heaven-and-earth. Of him now etc. etc.

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⌊27.⌋ Ours is etc. etc.; let him not be released from the fetter of Indra-and-Agni. Of him now etc. etc.

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⌊28.⌋ Ours is etc. etc.; let him not be released from the fetter of Mitra-and-Varuṇa. Of him now etc. etc.

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⌊29.⌋ Ours is etc. etc.; let him not be released from the fetter of king Varuṇa. Of him now etc. etc.

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⌊30.⌋ Ours [is] what is conquered, ours what has shot up, ours right, ours brilliancy, ours bráhman, ours heaven, ours the sacrifice, ours cattle, ours progeny, ours heroes. ⌊31.⌋ From that we disportion him yonder: so-and-so, of such-and-such lineage, son of such-and-such mother, who is yonder; ⌊32.⌋ let him not be released from the fetter, the shackle of death. ⌊33.⌋ Of him now I involve the splendor, brilliancy, breath, life-time; now I make him fall downward.

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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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