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Atharva Veda

Atharva Veda 2.10

For release from evils, and for welfare

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English · William Dwight Whitney

For release from evils, and for welfare

From kṣetriyá, from perdition, from imprecation of sisters (jāmí-), from hatred (drúh) do I release thee, from Varuṇa's fetter; free from guilt (-ā́gas) I make thee by [my] incantation; be heaven-and-earth both propitious to thee.

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Weal to thee be Agni, together with the waters; weal [be] Soma, together with the herbs: so from kṣetriyá, from perdition, etc. etc.

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Weal to thee may the wind in the atmosphere bestow (dhā) vigor; weal to thee be the four directions: so from kṣetriyá, etc. etc.

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These four heavenly (devá) directions, having the wind as lord, upon which the sun looks out—so from kṣetriyá, etc. etc.

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Within them I set thee in old age; let the yákṣma, let perdition go forth far away: so from kṣetriyá, etc. etc.

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Thou hast been released from yákṣma, from difficulty (duritá), from reproach (avadyá); from the fetter of hatred and from seizure hast thou been released: so from kṣetriyá, etc. etc.

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Thou hast left niggardy, hast found what is pleasant; thou hast come to be in the excellent world of what is well done: so from kṣetriyá, etc. etc.

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The gods, releasing from the seizure of darkness the sun whom it had befallen, let him loose from sin (énas): so from kṣetriyá, etc. etc.

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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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