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Atharva Veda

Vedic religion

153Atharva Veda 5.11⌊Dialogue between⌋ Varuṇa and Atharvan 154Atharva Veda 5.12Āprī-hymn: to various divinities 155Atharva Veda 5.13Against snakes' poison 156Atharva Veda 5.14Against witchcraft: with a plant 157Atharva Veda 5.15For exorcism: to a plant 158Atharva Veda 5.16Exorcism 159Atharva Veda 5.17The Brahman's wife 160Atharva Veda 5.18The Brahman's cow 161Atharva Veda 5.19The Brahman's cow 162Atharva Veda 5.20To the war-drum 163Atharva Veda 5.21To the war-drum 164Atharva Veda 5.22Against fever (takmán)165Atharva Veda 5.23Against worms 166Atharva Veda 5.24To various gods as overlords 167Atharva Veda 5.25For successful conception 168Atharva Veda 5.26Accompanying a sacrifice 169Atharva Veda 5.27Āprī-hymn: to various divinities 170Atharva Veda 5.28With an amulet of three metals: for safety etc

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Atharva Veda 5.16

Exorcism

Sanskrit (romanised) · Atharvaveda, Śaunaka (Sanskrit, IAST)

yady ekavṛṣo 'si sṛjāraso 'si

English · William Dwight Whitney

Exorcism

If thou art sole chief, let go; sapless art thou.

Sanskrit (romanised) · Atharvaveda, Śaunaka (Sanskrit, IAST)

yadi dvivṛṣo 'si sṛjāraso 'si

English · William Dwight Whitney

If thou art twice chief etc. etc.

Sanskrit (romanised) · Atharvaveda, Śaunaka (Sanskrit, IAST)

yadi trivṛṣo 'si sṛjāraso 'si

English · William Dwight Whitney

If thou art thrice chief etc. etc.

Sanskrit (romanised) · Atharvaveda, Śaunaka (Sanskrit, IAST)

yadi caturvṛṣo 'si sṛjāraso 'si

English · William Dwight Whitney

If thou art four times chief etc. etc.

Sanskrit (romanised) · Atharvaveda, Śaunaka (Sanskrit, IAST)

yadi pañcavṛṣo 'si sṛjāraso 'si

English · William Dwight Whitney

If thou art five times chief etc. etc.

Sanskrit (romanised) · Atharvaveda, Śaunaka (Sanskrit, IAST)

yadi ṣaḍvṛṣo 'si sṛjāraso 'si

English · William Dwight Whitney

If thou art six times chief etc. etc.

Sanskrit (romanised) · Atharvaveda, Śaunaka (Sanskrit, IAST)

yadi saptavṛṣo 'si sṛjāraso 'si

English · William Dwight Whitney

If thou art seven times chief etc. etc.

Sanskrit (romanised) · Atharvaveda, Śaunaka (Sanskrit, IAST)

yady aṣṭavṛṣo 'si sṛjāraso 'si

English · William Dwight Whitney

If thou art eight times chief etc. etc.

Sanskrit (romanised) · Atharvaveda, Śaunaka (Sanskrit, IAST)

yadi navavṛṣo 'si sṛjāraso 'si

English · William Dwight Whitney

If thou art nine times chief etc. etc.

Sanskrit (romanised) · Atharvaveda, Śaunaka (Sanskrit, IAST)

yadi daśavṛṣo 'si sṛjāraso 'si

English · William Dwight Whitney

If thou art ten times chief etc. etc.

Sanskrit (romanised) · Atharvaveda, Śaunaka (Sanskrit, IAST)

yady ekādaśo 'si so 'podako 'si

English · William Dwight Whitney

If thou art eleven-fold, then thou art waterless.

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Atharvaveda, Śaunaka (Sanskrit, IAST)Original · Sanskrit (romanised)

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).

Atharva Veda, tr. William Dwight WhitneyTranslation · English · William Dwight Whitney, 1905

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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