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Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 19.6.1

AVŚ 19.6.1

सहस्रबाहुः पुरुषः सहस्राक्षः सहस्रपात् । स भूमिं विश्वतो वृत्वात्य् अतिष्ठद् दशाङ्गुलम् ॥१॥

sahasrabāhuḥ puruṣaḥ sahasrākṣaḥ sahasrapāt | sa bhūmiṃ viśvato vṛtvāty atiṣṭhad daśāṅgulam ||1||

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

A THOUSAND heads hath Purusa, a thousand eyes, a thousand feet. On every side pervading earth he fills a space ten fingers wide.

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)This is the translator's rendering of the same verse where it occurs at RV 10.90.1; the wording of this text may differ in places.

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Cite as: Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 19.6.1, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/AV%C5%9A/19.6.1), 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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