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Atharvaveda Saṃhitā — Complete (Sanskrit with English Translation)

by Vedic Ṛṣis; English translation by Dr. Tulsi Ram Sharma

Sanskrit (Devanagari) with English translation

The complete Atharvaveda in the Śaunaka recension: all 20 kāṇḍas, 731 sūktas and 5,838 mantras, in Devanāgarī with IAST transliteration and an English rendering by Dr. Tulsi Ram Sharma in the ārṣa tradition of Maharṣi Yāska and Swami Dayananda. Includes the Pṛthivī Sūkta, the great Hymn to the Earth (kāṇḍa 12), the Kāla Sūkta on Time (kāṇḍa 19), the Skambha hymn (kāṇḍa 10) and the Vivāha marriage hymns (kāṇḍa 14). Sanskrit text established from the GRETIL/TITUS digital edition of the Śaunaka Saṃhitā (Orlandi, Pisa 1991, collated with Roth & Whitney, Berlin 1856; revised by Arlo Griffiths), with Devanāgarī generated from the transliterated text.

Chapters (20)

  1. 1.Kāṇḍa 1 — Healing, knowledge and protection
  2. 2.Kāṇḍa 2 — Life, longevity and the unknown
  3. 3.Kāṇḍa 3 — Kingship, harmony and the household
  4. 4.Kāṇḍa 4 — Nature, healing and the divine
  5. 5.Kāṇḍa 5 — Herbs, protection and cosmic order
  6. 6.Kāṇḍa 6 — Short hymns of blessing and cure
  7. 7.Kāṇḍa 7 — Short hymns — varied invocations
  8. 8.Kāṇḍa 8 — Life-force, victory and long life
  9. 9.Kāṇḍa 9 — The mystic cow, breath and hospitality
  10. 10.Kāṇḍa 10 — The mystic body and the Skambha
  11. 11.Kāṇḍa 11 — The Brahmaudana and the Vrātya
  12. 12.Kāṇḍa 12 — Pṛthivī Sūkta — Hymn to the Earth
  13. 13.Kāṇḍa 13 — Rohita — the ascending Sun
  14. 14.Kāṇḍa 14 — Vivāha Sūkta — the marriage hymns
  15. 15.Kāṇḍa 15 — The Vrātya Kāṇḍa
  16. 16.Kāṇḍa 16 — Prayers of the Śānti rites
  17. 17.Kāṇḍa 17 — The Viṣāsahi hymn
  18. 18.Kāṇḍa 18 — The Pitṛmedha — rites for the departed
  19. 19.Kāṇḍa 19 — Kāla Sūkta and miscellaneous hymns
  20. 20.Kāṇḍa 20 — Hymns to Indra and the Kuntāpa