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Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 20.57.12

AVŚ 20.57.12

दाना मृगो न वारणः पुरुत्रा चरथं दधे । नकिष् ट्वा नि यमद् आ सुते गमो महांश् चरस्य् ओजसा ॥१२॥

dānā mṛgo na vāraṇaḥ purutrā carathaṃ dadhe | nakiṣ ṭvā ni yamad ā sute gamo mahāṃś carasy ojasā ||12||

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

As a wild elephant rushes on this way and that way, mad with heat,' None may compel thee, yet come hither to the draught: thou movest mighty in thy power.

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)This is the translator's rendering of the same verse where it occurs at RV 8.33.8; the wording of this text may differ in places.

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Cite as: Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 20.57.12, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/AV%C5%9A/20.57.12), 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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