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Atharva Veda

Vedic religion

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 206Atharva Veda 6.33Praise to Indra 207Atharva Veda 6.34Praise and prayer to Agni 208Atharva Veda 6.35Prayer to Agni Vāiçvānara 209Atharva Veda 6.36In praise of Agni 210Atharva Veda 6.37Against curses

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Atharva Veda 6.25

For relief from pains (?) in neck and shoulders

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

pañca ca yāḥ pañcāśac ca saṃyanti manyā abhi itas tāḥ sarvā naśyantu vākā apacitām iva

English · William Dwight Whitney

For relief from pains (?) in neck and shoulders

Both the five and the fifty that gather against those of the nape—let them all disappear from here, like the noises (? vāká) of the apacíts.

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

sapta ca yāḥ saptatiś ca saṃyanti graivyā abhi itas tāḥ sarvā naśyantu vākā apacitām iva

English · William Dwight Whitney

Both the seven and the seventy that gather against those of the neck—let them all etc. etc.

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

nava ca yā navatiś ca saṃyanti skandhyā abhi itas tāḥ sarvā naśyantu vākā apacitām iva

English · William Dwight Whitney

Both the nine and the ninety that gather against those of the shoulders—let them all etc. etc.

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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 ↗