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Atharva Veda

Vedic religion

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 331Atharva Veda 7.16 332Atharva Veda 7.17 333Atharva Veda 7.18 334Atharva Veda 7.19 335Atharva Veda 7.20

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Atharva Veda 7.8

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

bhadrād adhi śreyaḥ prehi bṛhaspatiḥ puraetā te astu athemam asyā vara ā pṛthivyā āreśatruṃ kṛṇuhi sarvavīram

English · William Dwight Whitney

Go thou forth from what is excellent to what is better; be Brihaspati thy forerunner. Then do thou make this man, on the width of this earth, remote from foes, with all his heroes.

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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 ↗