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Atharva Veda

Vedic religion

178Atharva Veda 6.5For some one's exaltation 179Atharva Veda 6.6Against enemies 180Atharva Veda 6.7For blessings 181Atharva Veda 6.8To win a woman's love 182Atharva Veda 6.9To win a woman's love 183Atharva Veda 6.10Greeting to divinities etc. of the three spheres 184Atharva Veda 6.11For birth of sons 185Atharva Veda 6.12Against the poison of snakes 186Atharva Veda 6.13To the instruments and ministers of death 187Atharva Veda 6.14Against the balā́sa 188Atharva Veda 6.15For superiority 189Atharva Veda 6.16To various plants (?)190Atharva Veda 6.17Against premature birth 191Atharva Veda 6.18Against jealousy 192Atharva Veda 6.19For ceremonial purification 193Atharva Veda 6.20Against fever (takmán)194Atharva Veda 6.21To healing plants 195Atharva Veda 6.22To the Maruts

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Atharva Veda

Atharva Veda 6.10

Greeting to divinities etc. of the three spheres

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

pṛthivyai śrotrāya vanaspatibhyo 'gnaye 'dhipataye svāhā

English · William Dwight Whitney

Greeting to divinities etc. of the three spheres

To earth, to hearing, to the forest-trees—to Agni [their] overlord, hail!

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

prāṇāyāntarikṣāya vayobhyo vāyave 'dhipataye svāhā

English · William Dwight Whitney

To breath, to the atmosphere, to the birds—to Vāyu [their] overlord, hail!

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

dive cakṣuṣe nakṣatrebhyaḥ sūryāyādhipataye svāhā

English · William Dwight Whitney

To the sky, to sight, to the asterisms—to Sūrya [their] overlord, hail!

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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 ↗