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Atharva VedaAtharva Veda 3.31

Atharva Veda

Atharva Veda 3.31

For welfare and long life

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For welfare and long life

The gods have turned away from old age; thou, O Agni; away from the niggard; I away from all evil [have turned], away from yákṣma, to union (sám) with life-time.

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The cleansing one [has turned] away from mishap (ā́rti), the mighty one (çakrá) away from evil-doing; I away from etc. etc.

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The animals (paçú) of the village [have turned] away from those of the forest; the waters have gone (sṛ) away from thirst; I away from etc. etc.

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Apart [from one another] go heaven-and-earth here (imé), away the roads, to one and another quarter; I away from etc. etc.

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Tvashṭar harnesses (yuj) for his daughter a wedding-car (vahatú); at the news, all this creation (bhúvana) goes away; I away from etc. etc.

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Agni puts together the breaths; the moon is put together with breath: I away from etc. etc.

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By breath did the gods set in motion (sam-īray) the sun, of universal heroism: I away from etc. etc.

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By the breath of the long-lived, of the life-makers (āyuṣkṛ́t), do thou live; do not die: I away from etc. etc.

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With the breath of the breathing do thou breathe; be just here; do not die: I away from etc. etc.

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Up with life-time; together with life-time; up with the sap of the herbs: I away from etc. etc.

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Hither with Parjanya's rain have we stood up immortal: I away from 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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