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Atharva Veda

Vedic religion

313Atharva Veda 6.140With the first two upper teeth of a child 314Atharva Veda 6.141With marking of cattle's ears 315Atharva Veda 6.142For increase of barley 316Atharva Veda 7.1Mystic 317Atharva Veda 7.2Of Atharvan 318Atharva Veda 7.3Mystic 319Atharva Veda 7.4To the wind-god with his steeds 320Atharva Veda 7.5Mystic: on the offering or sacrifice 321Atharva Veda 7.6 322Atharva Veda 7.7 323Atharva Veda 7.8 324Atharva Veda 7.9 325Atharva Veda 7.10 326Atharva Veda 7.11 327Atharva Veda 7.12 328Atharva Veda 7.13 329Atharva Veda 7.14 330Atharva Veda 7.15

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Atharva Veda 7.3

Mystic

English · William Dwight Whitney

Mystic

By this shape (viṣṭhá) generating exploits (kárvara), he verily, fiery, a wide way for space (? vára); he went up to meet the sustaining top (ágra) of the sweet; with his own self (tanū́) he sent forth (īraya-) a self.

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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 ↗