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Atharva Veda

Vedic religion

248Atharva Veda 6.75To eject a rival 249Atharva Veda 6.76For a kṣatríya's security from death 250Atharva Veda 6.77For recovery and retention of what is lost 251Atharva Veda 6.78For matrimonial happiness 252Atharva Veda 6.79For abundance at home 253Atharva Veda 6.80The heavenly dog and the kālakāñjás 254Atharva Veda 6.81For successful pregnancy: with an amulet 255Atharva Veda 6.82To obtain a wife 256Atharva Veda 6.83To remove apacíts 257Atharva Veda 6.84For release from perdition 258Atharva Veda 6.85For relief from yákṣma 259Atharva Veda 6.86For supremacy 260Atharva Veda 6.87To establish some one in sovereignty 261Atharva Veda 6.88To establish a sovereign 262Atharva Veda 6.89To win affection 263Atharva Veda 6.90For safety from Rudra's arrow 264Atharva Veda 6.91For remedy from disease 265Atharva Veda 6.92For success of a horse

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Atharva Veda 6.80

The heavenly dog and the kālakāñjás

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

antarikṣeṇa patati viśvā bhūtāvacākaśat śuno divyasya yan mahas tenā te haviṣā vidhema

English · William Dwight Whitney

The heavenly dog and the kālakāñjás

He flies through the atmosphere, looking down upon all existences; what the greatness is of the heavenly dog, with that oblation would we pay worship to thee.

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

ye trayaḥ kālakāñjā divi devā iva śritāḥ tānt sarvān ahva ūtaye 'smā ariṣṭatātaye

English · William Dwight Whitney

The three kālakāñjás that are set (çritá) in the sky like gods—all them I called on for aid, for this man's unharmedness.

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

apsu te janma divi te sadhasthaṃ samudre antar mahimā te pṛthivyām śuno divyasya yan mahas tenā te haviṣā vidhema

English · William Dwight Whitney

In the waters [is] thy birth, in heaven thy station, within the ocean thy greatness, on the earth; what the greatness is of the heavenly dog, with that oblation would we pay worship to thee.

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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 ↗