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Atharva Veda

Atharva Veda 4.29

Praise and prayer to Mitra and Varuṇa

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English · William Dwight Whitney

Praise and prayer to Mitra and Varuṇa

I reverence you, O Mitra-and-Varuṇa, increasers of right; who, accordant, thrust [away] the malicious (drúhvan); [who] favor the truthful one in conflicts (bhára): do ye free us from distress.

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English · William Dwight Whitney

Ye who, accordant, thrust [away] the malicious; [who] favor the truthful one in conflicts; who, men-watching, go unto the brown soma—do ye free us from distress.

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English · William Dwight Whitney

Ye who favor An̄giras, who Agasti, Jamadagni, Atri, O Mitra-and-Varuṇa, who favor Kaçyapa, who Vasishṭha—do ye free us from distress.

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English · William Dwight Whitney

Ye who favor Çyāvāçva, Vadhryaçva, Purumīḍha, Atri, O Mitra-and-Varuṇa, who favor Vimada, Saptavadhri—do ye free us from distress.

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English · William Dwight Whitney

Ye who favor Bharadvāja, who Gavishṭhira, Viçvāmitra, Kutsa, O Varuṇa [and] Mitra; who favor Kakshīvant, also Kaṇva—do ye free us from distress.

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Ye who favor Medhātithi, who Triçoka, who Uçanas Kāvya, O Mitra-and-Varuṇa; who favor Gotama, also Mudgala—do ye free us from distress.

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English · William Dwight Whitney

Whose chariot, of true track, of straight reins, goes spoiling against him who behaves (car) falsely—I praise Mitra-and-Varuṇa; [as] a suppliant I call loudly on [them]: do ye free us from distress.

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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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