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Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 19.39.4

AVŚ 19.39.4

उत्तमो अस्य् ओषधीनाम् अनड्वान् जगताम् इव व्याघ्रः श्वपदाम् इव । नद्यायं पुरुषो रिषत् । यस्मै परिब्रवीमि त्वा सायंप्रातर् अथो दिवा ॥४॥

uttamo asy oṣadhīnām anaḍvān jagatām iva vyāghraḥ śvapadām iva | nadyāyaṃ puruṣo riṣat | yasmai paribravīmi tvā sāyaṃprātar atho divā ||4||

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

Thou art the highest (uttamá) of herbs, as the draft-ox of moving creatures (jágat), as the tiger of beasts of prey:—by no means may etc. etc.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

← AVŚ 19.39.3Ask about this verse AVŚ 19.39.5 →

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Cite as: Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 19.39.4, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/AV%C5%9A/19.39.4), 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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