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Atharva Veda

Atharva Veda 6.136

To fasten and increase the hair

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English · William Dwight Whitney

To fasten and increase the hair

Thou art born divine on the divine one, [namely] the earth, O herb; thee here, O down-stretcher, we dig in order to fix the hair.

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English · William Dwight Whitney

Fix thou the old ones, generate those unborn, and make longer those born.

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English · William Dwight Whitney

What hair of thine falls down, and what one is hewn off with its root, upon it I now pour with the all-healing plant.

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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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