Atharvavedaअथर्ववेद
Vedic hymns for everyday life. 2 passages in the chapters come from it.
- What it is
- About 730 hymns in 20 books
- Composed
- Mostly later than the Ṛgveda's hymns, around 1200–900 BCE
- By
- Associated with the priestly lines of Atharvan and Aṅgiras
- References on this site
- Book.hymn.verse: 12.1.35 is book 12, hymn 1, verse 35.
The fourth Veda gathers hymns and charms for ordinary life: healing, protection, harmony at home and in the assembly, prosperity and kingship. Two of its hymns are quoted here: 7.12, which asks that the sabhā and the samiti, two kinds of assembly, speak with one mind, and the long hymn to the Earth (12.1).
Read it in full
- R. T. H. Griffith's translation (1895), at sacred-texts.com (free, opens another site)
Names with marks such as ā, ṣ or ṛ are explained in how to read the names and terms.
The 2 passages the chapters quote
- My viewUnit 1 · Organisation Structure
Holacracy and team-based forms and the sabhā and samiti
Read it in its chapterसभा च मा समितिश्चावताम् । sabhā ca mā samitiś cāvatām. Atharvaveda 7.12.1
- My viewUnit 7 · Emerging Trends in Marketing
Green marketing and what is taken, may it grow back
Read it in its chapterयत्ते भूमे विखनामि क्षिप्रं तदपि रोहतु । yat te bhūme vikhanāmi kṣipraṃ tad api rohatu. “What I dig from you, O Earth, may that quickly grow again.” Atharvaveda 12.1.35
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