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Atharva Veda

Vedic religion

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 266Atharva Veda 6.93For protection: to many gods 267Atharva Veda 6.94For harmony 268Atharva Veda 6.95For relief from disease: with kúṣṭha 269Atharva Veda 6.96For relief from sin and distress 270Atharva Veda 6.97For victory 271Atharva Veda 6.98To Indra: for victory 272Atharva Veda 6.99For safety: to Indra

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Atharva Veda 6.87

To establish some one in sovereignty

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

ā tvāhārṣam antar abhūr dhruvas tiṣṭhāvicācalat viśas tvā sarvā vāñchantu mā tvad rāṣṭram adhi bhraśat

English · William Dwight Whitney

To establish some one in sovereignty

I have taken thee; thou hast become within; stand thou fixed, not unsteady; let all the people (víças) want thee; let not the kingdom fall away from thee.

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

ihaivaidhi māpa cyoṣṭhāḥ parvata ivāvicācalat indra iveha dhruvas tiṣṭheha rāṣṭram u dhāraya

English · William Dwight Whitney

Be thou just here; be not moved away; like a mountain, not unsteady; O Indra, stand thou fixed just here; here do thou maintain royalty.

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

indra etam adīdharat dhruvaṃ dhruveṇa haviṣā tasmai somo adhi bravad ayaṃ ca brahmaṇaspatiḥ

English · William Dwight Whitney

Indra hath maintained this man fixed by a fixed oblation; him may Soma bless, and Brahmaṇaspati here.

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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 ↗