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Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 6.140.1

AVŚ 6.140.1

यौ व्याघ्राव् अवरूधौ जिघत्सतः पितरं मातरं च । तौ दन्तं ब्रह्मणस् पते शिवौ कृणु जातवेदः ॥१॥

yau vyāghrāv avarūdhau jighatsataḥ pitaraṃ mātaraṃ ca | tau dantaṃ brahmaṇas pate śivau kṛṇu jātavedaḥ ||1||

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

The (two) tigers that, having grown down, desire to devour father and mother—those (two) teeth, O Brahmaṇaspati, make thou propitious, O Jātavedas.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

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Cite as: Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 6.140.1, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/AV%C5%9A/6.140.1), 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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