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Atharva Veda

Vedic religion

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 196Atharva Veda 6.23To the waters: for blessings 197Atharva Veda 6.24To the waters: for blessings 198Atharva Veda 6.25For relief from pains (?) in neck and shoulders

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Atharva Veda

Atharva Veda 6.13

To the instruments and ministers of death

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

namo devavadhebhyo namo rājavadhebhyaḥ atho ye viśyānāṃ vadhās tebhyo mṛtyo namo 'stu te

English · William Dwight Whitney

To the instruments and ministers of death

Homage to the weapons (vadhá) of the gods; homage to the weapons of kings; likewise the weapons that are of the Vāiçyas—to them of thine, O death, be homage.

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

namas te adhivākāya parāvākāya te namaḥ sumatyai mṛtyo te namo durmatyai te idaṃ namaḥ

English · William Dwight Whitney

Homage to thy benediction; homage to thy malediction; homage to thy favor, O death; this homage to thy disfavor.

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

namas te yātudhānebhyo namas te bheṣajebhyaḥ namas te mṛtyo mūlebhyo brāhmaṇebhya idaṃ namaḥ

English · William Dwight Whitney

Homage to thy sorcerers; homage to thy remedies; homage to thy roots, O death; this homage to the Brāhmans.

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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 ↗