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Atharva Veda

Vedic religion

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 199Atharva Veda 6.26Against evil 200Atharva Veda 6.27Against birds of ill omen

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Atharva Veda 6.15

For superiority

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

uttamo asy oṣadhīnāṃ tava vṛkṣā upastayaḥ upastir astu so 'smākaṃ yo asmāṁ abhidāsati

English · William Dwight Whitney

For superiority

Thou art the highest of herbs; of thee the trees are subjects (upastí); let him be our subject who assails us.

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

sabandhuś cāsabandhuś ca yo asmāṁ abhidāsati teṣāṃ sā vṛkṣāṇām ivāhaṃ bhūyāsam uttamaḥ

English · William Dwight Whitney

Whoever, both kindred and not of kin, assails us, of them may I be highest, as this one of trees.

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

yathā soma oṣadhīnām uttamo haviṣāṃ kṛtaḥ talāśā vṛkṣāṇām ivāhaṃ bhūyāsam uttamaḥ

English · William Dwight Whitney

As of herbs soma is made highest of oblations, as the talā́çā of trees, [so] may I be highest.

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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 ↗