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Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 6.38.2

AVŚ 6.38.2

या हस्तिनि द्वीपिनि या हिरण्ये त्विषिर् अप्सु गोषु या पुरुषेषु । इन्द्रं या देवी सुभगा जजान सा न ऐतु वर्चसा संविदाना ॥२॥

yā hastini dvīpini yā hiraṇye tviṣir apsu goṣu yā puruṣeṣu | indraṃ yā devī subhagā jajāna sā na aitu varcasā saṃvidānā ||2||

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

What brilliancy is in elephant, in leopard, what in gold, in waters, in kine, what in men (púruṣa): the fortunate goddess etc. etc.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

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Cite as: Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 6.38.2, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/AV%C5%9A/6.38.2), 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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