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Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 20.91.2

AVŚ 20.91.2

ऋतं शंसन्त ऋजु दीध्याना दिवस् पुत्रासो असुरस्य वीराः । विप्रं पदम् अङ्गिरसो दधाना यज्ञस्य धाम प्रथमं मनन्त ॥२॥

ṛtaṃ śaṃsanta ṛju dīdhyānā divas putrāso asurasya vīrāḥ | vipraṃ padam aṅgiraso dadhānā yajñasya dhāma prathamaṃ mananta ||2||

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

Thinking aright, praising eternal Order, the sons of Dyaus the Asura, those heroes, Angirases, holding the rank of sages, first honoured sacrifice's holy statute.

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)This is the translator's rendering of the same verse where it occurs at RV 10.67.2; the wording of this text may differ in places.

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Cite as: Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 20.91.2, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/AV%C5%9A/20.91.2), 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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