Library·Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka)·10·10.10·10.10.26
वशाम् एवामृतम् आहुर् वशां मृत्युम् उपासते । वशेदं सर्वम् अभवद् देवा मनुष्या असुराः पितर ऋषयः ॥२६॥
vaśām evāmṛtam āhur vaśāṃ mṛtyum upāsate | vaśedaṃ sarvam abhavad devā manuṣyā asurāḥ pitara ṛṣayaḥ ||26||
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
The cow they call immortality (amṛ́ta); the cow they worship (upa-ās) as death; the cow became this all—gods, men, Asuras, Fathers, seers.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
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Cite as: Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 10.10.26, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/AV%C5%9A/10.10.26), 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.
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