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Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 4.34.1

AVŚ 4.34.1

ब्रह्मास्य शीर्षं बृहद् अस्य पृष्ठं वामदेव्यम् उदरम् ओदनस्य । छन्दांसि पक्षौ मुखम् अस्य सत्यं विष्टारी जातस् तपसोऽधि यज्ञः ॥१॥

brahmāsya śīrṣaṃ bṛhad asya pṛṣṭhaṃ vāmadevyam udaram odanasya | chandāṃsi pakṣau mukham asya satyaṃ viṣṭārī jātas tapaso'dhi yajñaḥ ||1||

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

The bráhman [is] its head, the bṛhát its back, the vāmadevyá the belly of the rice-mess; the meters [are] the (two) sides (wings ?), truth its mouth; the viṣṭārín [is] a sacrifice born out of fervor (tápas).

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

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Cite as: Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 4.34.1, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/AV%C5%9A/4.34.1), 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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