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Atharva VedaAtharva Veda 4.33

Atharva Veda

Atharva Veda 4.33

To Agni: for release from evil

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To Agni: for release from evil

Gleaming (çuc) away our evil (aghá), O Agni, gleam thou wealth unto [us]: gleaming away our evil.

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With desire of pleasant fields, of welfare, of good things, we sacrifice—gleaming away our evil—

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In order that the most excellent of them, and in order that our patrons (sūrí)—gleaming away our evil—

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In order that thy patrons, O Agni; in order [namely] that we may be propagated for thee with progeny—gleaming away our evil—

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As of the powerful Agni the lusters (bhānú) go forth in every direction—gleaming away our evil.

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For, O thou that facest in every direction, thou art [our] encompasser on all sides: gleaming away our evil.

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Our haters, O thou that facest in every direction, do thou make us pass over as with a boat: gleaming away our evil.

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Do thou pass us over unto well-being, as [over] a river with a boat: gleaming away our evil.

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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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