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Atharva Veda

Atharva Veda 4.19

Against enemies: with a plant

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Against enemies: with a plant

Both art thou not relative-making, and now art thou kin-making; also do thou cut off (? ā-chid) the progeny of the witchcraft-maker, like a reed of the rainy season (vā́rṣika).

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Thou art bespoken (?) by a Brāhman, by Kaṇva son of Nṛshad; thou goest like a brilliant army (?); there is no fear (bhayá) there where thou arrivest (pra-āp), O herb.

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Thou goest to the head (ágra) of the herbs, causing to shine (dīp) upon [us] as it were with light; also rescuer art thou of the simple (pā́ka), likewise slayer art thou of the demoniac.

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When yonder, in the beginning, the gods by thee removed (nis-kṛ) the Asuras, from thence, O herb, wast thou born, an off-wiper.

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Splitting apart (vi-bhid), hundred-branched—"splitting apart" by name is thy father; in return (pratyák), do thou split apart him who assails us.

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The non-existent came into being (sam-bhū) from the earth; that goes to the sky, the great expanse (vyácas); let that, verily, fuming abroad, come back thence on the maker.

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Since thou hast come into being reverted (pratyáñc), having reverted fruit, do thou repel (yu) from me all curses, [repel] very far the deadly weapon.

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Protect me around with a hundred; defend me with a thousand; may the forceful (ugrá) Indra, O lord of the plants, assign force (ojmán) unto thee.

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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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