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Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 20.5.2

AVŚ 20.5.2

तुविग्रीवो वपोदरः सुबाहुर् अन्धसो सदे । इन्द्रो वृत्राणि जिघ्नते ॥२॥

tuvigrīvo vapodaraḥ subāhur andhaso sade | indro vṛtrāṇi jighnate ||2||

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

Indra, transported with the juice, vast in his bulk, strong in his neck And stout arms, smites the Vrtras down.

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)This is the translator's rendering of the same verse where it occurs at RV 8.17.8; the wording of this text may differ in places.

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Cite as: Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 20.5.2, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/AV%C5%9A/20.5.2), 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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