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Atharva Veda 19.8

For well-being: to the asterisms etc

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English · William Dwight Whitney

For well-being: to the asterisms etc

What asterisms are in the sky, in the atmosphere, in the waters, on the earth, what ones in the mountains, in the quarters, what ones the moon goes on preparing (pra-kḷp), let all those be propitious to me.

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English · William Dwight Whitney

Let them of the series of twenty-eight, propitious, helpful, together allot to me acquisition (yóga); I go forward to acquisition and possession (kṣéma); I go forward to possession and acquisition; homage be to day-and-night.

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English · William Dwight Whitney

Be it for me well at sunset (?), well in early morning, well at evening, well by day; be it for me well with beasts, well with birds; with easy invocation, O Agni, having gone with well-being to a mortal, come thou again enjoying.

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Detraction, evil gossip, reproach, sneezing about (?)—them, O Savitar, drive (suva) away for me empty-handed (?), with all.

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English · William Dwight Whitney

[Drive] away evil sneezing about; may we enjoy (bhaj) propitious (púṇya) sneezing; let the evil-nosed jackal and púṇyaga urinate upon [it] for thee.

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English · William Dwight Whitney

These (fem.), O Brahmaṇaspati, that go dispersing upon the wind—do thou, O Indra, making them come together, make them most propitious for me.

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English · William Dwight Whitney

Let well-being be ours; let fearlessness be ours; homage be to day-and-night.

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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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