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Atharva Veda

Atharva Veda 7.6

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English · William Dwight Whitney

Aditi [is] heaven, Aditi atmosphere, Aditi mother, she father, she son; all the gods [are] Aditi, the five races (jána); Aditi [is] what is born, Aditi what is to be born.

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English · William Dwight Whitney

We call for aid verily on the great mother of them of good courses, the spouse of righteousness (ṛtá), on her of mighty authority, not growing old, wide-spreading, on the well-sheltering, well-conducting Aditi.

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The well-preserving earth, the unenvious sky, the well-sheltering, well-conducting Aditi, the well-oared ship of the gods, unleaking, may we, guiltless, embark on in order to well-being.

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English · William Dwight Whitney

Now, in the impulse of might (vā́ja), will we commemorate (? karāmahe) with utterance (vácas) the great mother, Aditi by name, whose lap is the broad atmosphere; may she confirm to us thrice-defending protection.

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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).

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 ↗

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