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Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 4.39.8

AVŚ 4.39.8

दिशो धेनवस् तासां चन्द्रो वत्सः । ता मे चन्द्रेण वत्सेनेषम् ऊर्जं कामं दुहाम् आयुः प्रथमं प्रजां पोसं रयिं स्वाहा ॥८॥

diśo dhenavas tāsāṃ candro vatsaḥ | tā me candreṇa vatseneṣam ūrjaṃ kāmaṃ duhām āyuḥ prathamaṃ prajāṃ posaṃ rayiṃ svāhā ||8||

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

The quarters are milch-cows; of them the moon is calf; let them, with the moon as calf, milk for me etc. etc.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

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Cite as: Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 4.39.8, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/AV%C5%9A/4.39.8), 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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