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Atharva Veda

Vedic religion

172Atharva Veda 5.30To lengthen out some one's life 173Atharva Veda 5.31Against witchcraft 174Atharva Veda 6.1Praise to Savitar 175Atharva Veda 6.2Praise and prayer to Indra 176Atharva Veda 6.3To various divinities: for protection 177Atharva Veda 6.4To various divinities: for protection 178Atharva Veda 6.5For some one's exaltation 179Atharva Veda 6.6Against enemies 180Atharva Veda 6.7For blessings 181Atharva Veda 6.8To win a woman's love 182Atharva Veda 6.9To win a woman's love 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 (?)

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To various divinities: for protection

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

tvaṣṭā me daivyaṃ vacaḥ parjanyo brahmaṇas patiḥ putrair bhrātṛbhir aditir nu pātu no duṣṭaraṃ trāyamāṇaṃ sahaḥ

English · William Dwight Whitney

To various divinities: for protection

Tvashṭar [protect] my address (vácas) to the gods, [also] Parjanya, Brahmaṇaspati; with sons, with brothers, let Aditi now protect our hard to surpass [and] saving power.

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

aṃśo bhago varuṇo mitro aryamāditiḥ pāntu marutaḥ apa tasya dveṣo gamed abhihruto yāvayacchatrum antitam

English · William Dwight Whitney

Let Aṅça, Bhaga, Varuṇa, Mitra, Aryaman, Aditi—let the Maruts protect [us]; may the hatred of that injurer pass away; repel the foe from near by.

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

dhiye sam aśvinā prāvataṃ na uruṣyā ṇa urujmann aprayucchan dyauṣ pitar yāvaya ducchunā yā

English · William Dwight Whitney

Unto knowledge (? dhī́), O Açvins, do ye aid us; make wide for us, O wide-goer, unremitting; O heaven, father, repel whatever misfortune.

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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 ↗

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