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Atharva Veda

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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 201Atharva Veda 6.28Against birds of ill omen etc 202Atharva Veda 6.29Against birds of ill omen 203Atharva Veda 6.30To the çamī́ plant: for benefit to the hair 204Atharva Veda 6.31At rising of the sun (or moon)205Atharva Veda 6.32Against demons

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Atharva Veda 6.20

Against fever (takmán)

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

agner ivāsya dahata eti śuṣmiṇa uteva matto vilapann apāyati anyam asmad icchatu kaṃcid avratas tapurvadhāya namo astu takmane

English · William Dwight Whitney

Against fever (takmán)

Of him as of burning fire goeth the vehemence (?); likewise, as it were, shall he crying out go away from me; some other one than us let the ill-behaved one seek; homage be to the heat-weaponed fever.

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

namo rudrāya namo astu takmane namo rājñe varuṇāya tviṣīmate namo dive namaḥ pṛthivyai nama oṣadhībhyaḥ

English · William Dwight Whitney

Homage to Rudra, homage be to the fever, homage to king Varuṇa, the brilliant (tvíṣīmant), homage to the sky, homage to the earth, homage to the herbs.

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

ayaṃ yo abhiśocayiṣṇur viśvā rūpāṇi haritā kṛṇoṣi tasmai te 'ruṇāya babhrave namaḥ kṛṇomi vanyāya takmane

English · William Dwight Whitney

Thou here who, scorching greatly, dost make all forms yellow—to thee here, the ruddy, the brown, the woody takmán, do I pay homage.

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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 ↗