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Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 18.2.58

AVŚ 18.2.58

अग्नेर् वर्म परि गोभिर् व्ययस्व सं प्रोर्णुष्व मेदसा पीवसा च । नेत् त्वा धृष्णुर् हरसा जर्हृषाणो दधृग् विधक्षन् परीङ्खयातै ॥५८॥

agner varma pari gobhir vyayasva saṃ prorṇuṣva medasā pīvasā ca | net tvā dhṛṣṇur harasā jarhṛṣāṇo dadhṛg vidhakṣan parīṅkhayātai ||58||

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

Shield thee with flesh against the flames of Agni, encompass thee about with fat and marrow, So will the Bold One, eager to attack thee with fierce glow fail to girdle and consume thee.

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)This is the translator's rendering of the same verse where it occurs at RV 10.16.7; the wording of this text may differ in places.

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Cite as: Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 18.2.58, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/AV%C5%9A/18.2.58), 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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