Atharva Veda 19.23

Homage to parts of the Atharva-Veda

To them of four verses of the Ātharvaṇas, hail!

To them of five verses, hail!

To them of six verses, hail!

To them of seven verses, hail!

To them of eight verses, hail!

To them of nine verses, hail!

To them of ten verses, hail!

To them of eleven verses, hail!

To them of twelve verses, hail!

To them of thirteen verses, hail!

To them of fourteen verses, hail!

To them of fifteen verses, hail!

To them of sixteen verses, hail!

To them of seventeen verses, hail!

To them of eighteen verses, hail!

Nineteen: hail!

Twenty: hail!

To the great book (mahat-kāṇḍá), hail!

To them of three verses, hail!

To them of one verse, hail!

To the petty ones, hail! ⌊See page clviii top.⌋

To them of a half-verse, hail!

To the ruddy ones (rohita), hail!

To the two Sūryās, hail!

To the two Vrātyas, hail!

To the two of Prajāpati, hail!

To the viṣāsahí, hail!

To them of good omen (man̄galiká), hail!

To the bráhman, hail!

Heroisms were gathered with the bráhman as chief; the bráhman as chief in the beginning stretched the sky; the Brahmán was born as first of creatures; therefore who is fit to contend with the Brahmán?