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Atharva Veda

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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 234Atharva Veda 6.61Prayer and boasts 235Atharva Veda 6.62To Vāiçvānara etc.: for purification 236Atharva Veda 6.63For some one's release from perdition (nírṛti)237Atharva Veda 6.64For concord 238Atharva Veda 6.65For success against enemies 239Atharva Veda 6.66For success against enemies 240Atharva Veda 6.67For success against enemies 241Atharva Veda 6.68To accompany the act of shaving

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Atharva Veda 6.56

For protection from serpents

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

mā no devā ahir vadhīt satokānt sahapuruṣān saṃyataṃ na vi ṣparad vyāttaṃ na saṃ yaman namo devajanebhyaḥ

English · William Dwight Whitney

For protection from serpents

Let not the snake, O gods, slay us with our offspring, with our men (púruṣa); what is shut together may it not unclose; what is open may it not shut together: homage to the god-people.

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

namo 'stv asitāya namas tiraścirājaye svajāya babhrave namo namo devajanebhyaḥ

English · William Dwight Whitney

Homage be to the black [snake], homage to the cross-lined, homage to the brown constrictor; homage to the god-people.

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

saṃ te hanmi datā dataḥ sam u te hanvā hanū saṃ te jihvayā jihvāṃ sam v āsnāha āsyam

English · William Dwight Whitney

I smite thy teeth together with tooth, thy (two) jaws together with jaw, thy tongue together with tongue, thy mouth, O snake, together with mouth.

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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 ↗