Atharvaveda

AVS 6.17.4

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yátheyáṃ pr̥thivī́ mahī́ dādhā́ra víṣṭhitaṃ jágat | evā́ te dhriyatāṃ gárbho ánu sū́tuṃ sávitave ||4||

Translation

As this great earth maintains the various (''víṣṭhita'') living beings, so let thine embryo be maintained, in order to birth after pregnancy.

Fixed phrases in this verse

viṣṭhitaṃ jagatin 4 verses · across RV, YV, AV
yatheyaṃ pr̥thivī mahīin 4 verses · within AV
evā te dhriyatāṃ garbho anu sūtuṃ savitavein 4 verses · within AV

ShelfmarkVG:AV:SAU:K06:S017:V004cited as AVS 6.17.4

Ascribed in the apparatus

The traditional hymn heading, not a statement inside the verse.

rishiAtharvanInherited from the hymn chandasānuṣṭubhamInherited from the hymn

Named inside this verse

Insufficient evidence

Ideas, acts and things

cosmic entityearth (pṛthivī)The earth as the lower world and as the broad surface that bears living things.

Connected passages

No other passage in this corpus carries this wording. That is a statement about the four collections held here, not about the Vedas.

How attribution was recorded1

PER_PASSAGE is an attribution the source states verse by verse; CONTAINER_INHERITED is a containing hymn's label projected onto each of its mantras. The two must not be summed: 15,177 of the 17,889 seer edges are inherited, every one of the Atharvaveda's 5,084 is, and every one of the Yajurveda's 2,240 is source-stated, so a blended total compares a statement of the text against a projection of this build.
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