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Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 20.96.16

AVŚ 20.96.16

यस् त्वा स्वप्नेन तमसा मोहयित्वा निपद्यते । प्रजां यस् ते जिघांसति तम् इतो नाशयामसि ॥१६॥

yas tvā svapnena tamasā mohayitvā nipadyate | prajāṃ yas te jighāṃsati tam ito nāśayāmasi ||16||

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

That which through sleep or darkness hath deceived thee and lies down by thee, And will destroy thy progeny, even this will we exterminate.

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)This is the translator's rendering of the same verse where it occurs at RV 10.162.6; the wording of this text may differ in places.

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Cite as: Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 20.96.16, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/AV%C5%9A/20.96.16), 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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