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Atharva Veda

Vedic religion

216Atharva Veda 6.43To assuage wrath 217Atharva Veda 6.44For cessation of a disease 218Atharva Veda 6.45In atonement of offenses 219Atharva Veda 6.46Against evil dreams 220Atharva Veda 6.47For blessings: at the three daily libations 221Atharva Veda 6.48To the deities of the three daily libations 222Atharva Veda 6.49To Agni etc 223Atharva Veda 6.50Against petty destroyers of grain 224Atharva Veda 6.51For various blessings 225Atharva Veda 6.52For deliverance from unseen pests 226Atharva Veda 6.53For protection: to various gods 227Atharva Veda 6.54To secure and increase some one's superiority 228Atharva Veda 6.55For various blessings 229Atharva Veda 6.56For protection from serpents 230Atharva Veda 6.57With a certain remedy against disease 231Atharva Veda 6.58For glory 232Atharva Veda 6.59For protection to cattle 233Atharva Veda 6.60For winning a spouse

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Atharva Veda

Atharva Veda 6.48

To the deities of the three daily libations

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

śyeno 'si gāyatrachandā anu tvā rabhe svasti mā saṃ vahāsya yajñasyodṛci svāhā

English · William Dwight Whitney

To the deities of the three daily libations

A falcon art thou, with gāyatrá for meter; I take hold after thee; carry me along to welfare at the close (udṛ́c) of this offering: hail!

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

ṛbhur asi jagacchandā anu tvā rabhe svasti mā saṃ vahāsya yajñasyodṛci svāhā

English · William Dwight Whitney

A Ribhu art thou, with jágat for meter; I take hold etc. etc.

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

vṛṣāsi triṣṭupchandā anu tvā rabhe svasti mā saṃ vahāsya yajñasyodṛci svāhā

English · William Dwight Whitney

A bull art thou, with triṣṭúbh for meter; I take hold etc. etc.

Atharva Veda 6.48English

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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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