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Atharva Veda

Atharva Veda 3.3

For the restoration of a king

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English · William Dwight Whitney

For the restoration of a king

He hath shouted (? krand); may he be protector of his own here; O Agni, bend apart the two widened firmaments (ródasī); let the all-possessing Maruts harness (yuj) thee; lead thou hither with homage yon man of bestowed oblation.

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Indra, the inspired one, however far away, let the ruddy ones set in motion hither (ā-cyāvaya-) in order to friendship, when the gods venture (?) for him a gāyatrī́, a bṛhatī́, a song (arká), with the sāutrāmaṇī́ (ceremony).

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For the waters let king Varuṇa call thee; let Soma call thee for the mountains; let Indra call thee for these subjects (víç); becoming a falcon, fly unto these subjects.

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Let the falcon lead hither from far (pára) the one to be called, living exiled in others' territory (kṣétra); let the (two) Açvins make the road for thee easy to go; settle together about this man, ye his fellows.

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Let thine opponents call thee; thy friends have chosen [thee] against [them] (? práti); Indra-and-Agni, all the gods, have maintained for thee security (kṣéma) in the people (víç).

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Whatever fellow disputes thy call, and whatever outsider—making him go away (ápāñc), O Indra, then do thou reinstate (ava-gamaya) this man here.

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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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