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Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 10.2.8

AVŚ 10.2.8

मस्तिष्कम् अस्य यतमो ललातं ककाटिकां प्रथमो यः कपालम् । चित्वा चित्यं हन्वोः पूरुषस्य दिवं रुरोह कतमः स देवः ॥८॥

mastiṣkam asya yatamo lalātaṃ kakāṭikāṃ prathamo yaḥ kapālam | citvā cityaṃ hanvoḥ pūruṣasya divaṃ ruroha katamaḥ sa devaḥ ||8||

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

Which was that god who [produced] his brain, his forehead, his hindhead (? kakā́ṭikā), who first his skull, who, having gathered a gathering in man's jaws, ascended to heaven?

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

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Cite as: Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 10.2.8, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/AV%C5%9A/10.2.8), 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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