Library·Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka)·10·10.10·10.10.18
वशा माता राजन्यस्य वशा माता स्वधे तव । वशाया यज्ञ आयुधं ततश् चित्तम् अजायत ॥१८॥
vaśā mātā rājanyasya vaśā mātā svadhe tava | vaśāyā yajña āyudhaṃ tataś cittam ajāyata ||18||
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
The cow is mother of the noble (rājanyà), the cow thy mother, O svadhā́; from the cow was born the weapon; from it was born intent (cittá).
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
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Cite as: Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 10.10.18, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/AV%C5%9A/10.10.18), after GRETIL, Atharvaveda-Samhita, Saunaka recension Based on the ed.: Gli inni dell' Atharvaveda (Saunaka),….
GRETIL 1_veda/1_sam/avs___u.htm — Atharvaveda-Samhita, Saunaka recension Based on the ed.: Gli inni dell' Atharvaveda (Saunaka), trasliterazione a cura di Chatia Orlandi, Pisa 1991, collated with the ed. R. Roth and WḌ. Whitney: Atharva Veda Sanhita, Berlin 1856. Input by Vladimir Petr and Pet | English: William Dwight Whitney (1905), attached per hymn where the verse count and the names agree.
GRETIL (SUB Göttingen), CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 — non-commercial use with attribution; the Companion is kept free while this corpus is held. Devanagari generated mechanically from GRETIL's IAST.