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Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 10.2.2

AVŚ 10.2.2

कस्मान् नु गुल्फाव् अधराव् अकृण्वन्न् अष्ठीवन्ताव् उत्तरौ पुरुषस्य । जङ्घे निरृत्य न्य् अदधुः क्व स्विज् जानुनोः संधी क उ तच् चिकेत ॥२॥

kasmān nu gulphāv adharāv akṛṇvann aṣṭhīvantāv uttarau puruṣasya | jaṅghe nirṛtya ny adadhuḥ kva svij jānunoḥ saṃdhī ka u tac ciketa ||2||

Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.

From what, now, did they make a man's two ankle-joints below, his two knee-joints above? separating (? nir-ṛ) his two back-thighs (ján̄ghā), where, forsooth, did they set them in? the two joints of his knees—who indeed understands (cit) that?

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

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Cite as: Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 10.2.2, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/AV%C5%9A/10.2.2), after GRETIL, Atharvaveda-Samhita, Saunaka recension Based on the ed.: Gli inni dell' Atharvaveda (Saunaka),….

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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.

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