Library·Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka)·6·6.70·6.70.1

Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 6.70.1

AVŚ 6.70.1

यथा मांसम् यथा सुरा यथाक्षा अधिदेवने । यथा पुंसो वृषण्यत स्त्रियां निहन्यते मनः । एवा ते अघ्न्ये मनो ऽधि वत्से नि हन्यताम् ॥१॥

yathā māṃsam yathā surā yathākṣā adhidevane | yathā puṃso vṛṣaṇyata striyāṃ nihanyate manaḥ | evā te aghnye mano 'dhi vatse ni hanyatām ||1||

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

As flesh, as strong-drink, as dice on the gambling-board; as of a lustful man the mind is fastened (ni-han) on a woman—-so let thy mind, O inviolable one (aghnyā́), be fastened on thy calf.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

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Cite as: Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 6.70.1, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/AV%C5%9A/6.70.1), 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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