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Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 10.8.21

AVŚ 10.8.21

अपाद् अग्रे सम् अभवत् सो अग्रे स्वर् आभरत् । चतुष्पाद् भूत्वा भोग्यः सर्वम् आदत्त भोजनम् ॥२१॥

apād agre sam abhavat so agre svar ābharat | catuṣpād bhūtvā bhogyaḥ sarvam ādatta bhojanam ||21||

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

Footless came he into being in the beginning; he in the beginning brought the heaven (svàr); having become four-footed, enjoyable, he took to himself all enjoyment (bhójana),

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

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Cite as: Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 10.8.21, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/AV%C5%9A/10.8.21), 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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