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Atharva Veda

Vedic religion

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 (?)190Atharva Veda 6.17Against premature birth

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Atharva Veda 6.5

For some one's exaltation

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

ud enam uttaraṃ nayāgne ghṛtenāhuta sam enaṃ varcasā sṛja prajayā ca bahuṃ kṛdhi

English · William Dwight Whitney

For some one's exaltation

Lead him up higher, O Agni, [thou] to whom oblations of ghee are made; unite him with splendor, and make him abundant with progeny.

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

indremaṃ prataraṃ kṛdhi sajātānām asad vaśī rāyas poṣeṇa saṃ sṛja jīvātave jarase naya

English · William Dwight Whitney

O Indra, put this man far forward; may he be controler of his fellows; unite him with abundance of wealth; conduct him unto life (jīvā́tu), unto old age.

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

yasya kṛṇmo havir gṛhe tam agne vardhayā tvam tasmai somo adhi bravad ayaṃ ca brahmaṇaspatiḥ

English · William Dwight Whitney

In whose house we make oblation, him, O Agni, do thou increase; him may Soma bless, and this Brahmaṇaspati.

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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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