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Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 18.3.57

AVŚ 18.3.57

इमा नारीर् अविधवाः सुपत्नीर् आञ्जनेन सर्पिषा सं स्पृशन्ताम् । अनश्रवो अनमीवाः सुरत्ना आ रोहन्तु जनयो योनिम् अग्रे ॥५७॥

imā nārīr avidhavāḥ supatnīr āñjanena sarpiṣā saṃ spṛśantām | anaśravo anamīvāḥ suratnā ā rohantu janayo yonim agre ||57||

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

Let these unwidowed dames with noble husbands adorn themselves with fragrant balm and unguent. Decked with fair jewels, tearless, free from sorrow, first let the dames go up to where he lieth.

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)This is the translator's rendering of the same verse where it occurs at RV 10.18.7; the wording of this text may differ in places.

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Cite as: Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 18.3.57, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/AV%C5%9A/18.3.57), 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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