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Atharva Veda

Atharva Veda 7.81

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English · William Dwight Whitney

These two move on one after the other by magic (māyā́); two playing young ones (çíçu), they go about the sea; the one looks abroad upon all beings; thou, the other, disposing the seasons art born new.

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English · William Dwight Whitney

Ever new art thou, being born; sign (ketú) of the days, thou goest to the apex (ágra) of the dawns; thou disposest their share to the gods as thou comest; thou stretchest out, O moon, a long life-time.

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O stem of soma, lord of fighters! not-deficient verily art thou by name; make me, O first-sight (darçá), not-deficient, both by progeny and by riches.

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First sight art thou, worth seeing art thou; complete at point art thou, complete at end; complete at point, complete at end may I be, by kine, by horses, by progeny, by cattle, by houses, by riches.

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He who hateth us, whom we hate—with his breath do thou fill thyself up; may we fill ourselves up with kine, with horses, with progeny, with cattle, with houses, with riches.

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English · William Dwight Whitney

The stem which the gods fill up, which, unexhausted, they feed upon unexhausted—therewith let Indra, Varuṇa, Brihaspati, shepherds of existence, fill us up.

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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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