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Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 20.28.1

AVŚ 20.28.1

व्य् अन्तरिक्षम् अतिरन् मदे सोमस्य रोचना । इन्द्रो यद् अभिनद् वलम् ॥१॥

vy antarikṣam atiran made somasya rocanā | indro yad abhinad valam ||1||

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

In Soma's ecstasy Indra spread the firmament and realms of light, When he cleft Vala limb from limb.

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)This is the translator's rendering of the same verse where it occurs at RV 8.14.7; the wording of this text may differ in places.

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Cite as: Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 20.28.1, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/AV%C5%9A/20.28.1), 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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