Library·Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka)·8·8.2·8.2.23
मृत्युर् ईशे द्विपदां मृत्युर् ईशे चतुष्पदाम् । तस्मात् त्वां मृत्योर् गोपतेर् उद् भरामि स मा बिभेः ॥२३॥
mṛtyur īśe dvipadāṃ mṛtyur īśe catuṣpadām | tasmāt tvāṃ mṛtyor gopater ud bharāmi sa mā bibheḥ ||23||
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
Death is master of bipeds; death is master of quadrupeds; from that death, lord of kine, I bear thee up; ⌊so⌋ do thou not be afraid.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
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Cite as: Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 8.2.23, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/AV%C5%9A/8.2.23), after GRETIL, Atharvaveda-Samhita, Saunaka recension Based on the ed.: Gli inni dell' Atharvaveda (Saunaka),….
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.
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