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Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 8.2.17

AVŚ 8.2.17

यत् क्षुरेण मर्चयता सुतेजसा वप्ता वपसि केशश्मश्रु । शुभं मुखं मा न आयुः प्र मोषीः ॥१७॥

yat kṣureṇa marcayatā sutejasā vaptā vapasi keśaśmaśru | śubhaṃ mukhaṃ mā na āyuḥ pra moṣīḥ ||17||

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

In that with a dangerous (? marcáyant) very sharp (sutejás) razor thou, a hair-dresser, shearest hair and beard, adorning the face, do not thou steal away our life-time.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

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Cite as: Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 8.2.17, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/AV%C5%9A/8.2.17), 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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