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Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 5.18.8

AVŚ 5.18.8

जिह्वा ज्या भवति कुल्मलं वाङ् नाडीका दन्तास् तपसाभिदिग्धाः । तेभिर् ब्रह्मा विध्यति देवपीयून् हृद्बलैर् धनुर्भिर् देवजूतैः ॥८॥

jihvā jyā bhavati kulmalaṃ vāṅ nāḍīkā dantās tapasābhidigdhāḥ | tebhir brahmā vidhyati devapīyūn hṛdbalair dhanurbhir devajūtaiḥ ||8||

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

His tongue becomes a bow-string, his voice an [arrow-] neck, his teeth [become] shafts (nāḍīkā́) smeared with penance; with these the Brahman (brahmán) pierces the insulters of the gods, with bows having force from the heart [and] speeded by the gods.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

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Cite as: Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 5.18.8, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/AV%C5%9A/5.18.8), 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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