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Atharva Veda 7.54

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

ṛcaṃ sāma yajāmahe yābhyāṃ karmāṇi kurvate ete sadasi rājato yajñaṃ deveṣu yacchataḥ

English · William Dwight Whitney

To verse (ṛ́c), to chant (sā́man) we sacrifice, by (both) which men perform rites (kárman); these bear rule at the seat (sádas); they hand (yam) the offering to the gods.

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

ṛcaṃ sāma yad aprākṣaṃ havir ojo yajur balam eṣa mā tasmān mā hiṃsīd vedaḥ pṛṣṭaḥ śacīpate

English · William Dwight Whitney

When (yád) I have asked verse ⌊and⌋ chant ⌊respectively⌋ for oblation ⌊and⌋ force, ⌊and⌋ sacrificial formula (yájus) for strength, let not therefore this Veda, asked, injure me, O lord of might (çácī-).

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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 ↗