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Atharva Veda

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299Atharva Veda 6.126To the drum: for success against the foe 300Atharva Veda 6.127Against various diseases: with a wooden amulet 301Atharva Veda 6.128For auspicious time: with dung-smoke 302Atharva Veda 6.129For good-fortune: with a çiṅçápā amulet 303Atharva Veda 6.130To win a man's love 304Atharva Veda 6.131To win a man's love 305Atharva Veda 6.132To compel a man's love 306Atharva Veda 6.133To a girdle: for long life etc 307Atharva Veda 6.134To crush an enemy with a thunderbolt 308Atharva Veda 6.135To crush an enemy 309Atharva Veda 6.136To fasten and increase the hair 310Atharva Veda 6.137To fasten and increase the hair 311Atharva Veda 6.138To make a certain man impotent 312Atharva Veda 6.139To compel a woman's love 313Atharva Veda 6.140With the first two upper teeth of a child 314Atharva Veda 6.141With marking of cattle's ears 315Atharva Veda 6.142For increase of barley 316Atharva Veda 7.1Mystic

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Atharva Veda 6.131

To win a man's love

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

ni śīrṣato ni pattata ādhyo ni tirāmi te devāḥ pra hiṇuta smaram asau mām anu śocatu

English · William Dwight Whitney

To win a man's love

Down from the head, down from the feet, thy longings (ādhī́) I draw down. Ye gods, send forth love; let yon [man] burn for me.

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

anumate 'nv idaṃ manyasvākūte sam idaṃ namaḥ devāḥ pra hiṇuta smaram asau mām anu śocatu

English · William Dwight Whitney

O Anumati, assent to (anu-man) this; O design (ā́kūti), mayest thou constrain (sam-nam) this. Ye gods, send etc. etc.

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

yad dhāvasi triyojanaṃ pañcayojanam āśvinam tatas tvaṃ punar āyasi putrāṇāṃ no asaḥ pitā

English · William Dwight Whitney

If (yát) thou runnest three leagues, five leagues, a horseman's day's journey, thence shalt thou come back; thou shalt be father of our sons.

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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 ↗