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Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 18.2.17

AVŚ 18.2.17

ये युध्यन्ते प्रधनेषु शूरासो ये स्वर् तनूत्यजः । ये वा सहस्रदक्षिणास् तां चिद् एवापि गछतात् ॥१७॥

ye yudhyante pradhaneṣu śūrāso ye svar tanūtyajaḥ | ye vā sahasradakṣiṇās tāṃ cid evāpi gachatāt ||17||

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

The heroes who contend in war and boldly cast their lives away, Or who give guerdon thousandfold, even to those let him depart.

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)This is the translator's rendering of the same verse where it occurs at RV 10.154.3; the wording of this text may differ in places.

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Cite as: Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 18.2.17, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/AV%C5%9A/18.2.17), 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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