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Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 19.6.7

AVŚ 19.6.7

चन्द्रमा मनसो जातश् चक्षोः सूर्यो अजायत । मुखाद् इन्द्रश् चाग्निश् च प्राणाद् वायुर् अजायत ॥७॥

candramā manaso jātaś cakṣoḥ sūryo ajāyata | mukhād indraś cāgniś ca prāṇād vāyur ajāyata ||7||

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

The Moon was gendered from his mind, and from his eye the Sun had birth; Indra and Agni from his mouth were born, and Vayu from his breath.

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)This is the translator's rendering of the same verse where it occurs at RV 10.90.13; the wording of this text may differ in places.

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Cite as: Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 19.6.7, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/AV%C5%9A/19.6.7), 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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