Library·Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka)·5·5.17·5.17.8
उत यत् पतयो दश स्त्रियाः पूर्वे अब्राह्मणाः । ब्रह्मा चेद् धस्तम् अग्रहीत् स एव पतिर् एकधा ॥८॥
uta yat patayo daśa striyāḥ pūrve abrāhmaṇāḥ | brahmā ced dhastam agrahīt sa eva patir ekadhā ||8||
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
And if [there were] ten former husbands of a woman, not Brahmans—provided a Brahman has seized her hand, he is alone her husband.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
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Cite as: Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 5.17.8, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/AV%C5%9A/5.17.8), after GRETIL, Atharvaveda-Samhita, Saunaka recension Based on the ed.: Gli inni dell' Atharvaveda (Saunaka),….
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.
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