Atharvaveda

AVS 6.20.2

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námo rudrā́ya námo astu takmáne námo rā́jñe váruṇāya tvíṣīmate | námo divé námaḥ pr̥thivyái náma óṣadhībhyaḥ ||2||

Translation

Homage to Rudra, homage be to the fever, homage to king Varuṇa, the brilliant (''tvíṣīmant''), homage to the sky, homage to the earth, homage to the herbs.

Fixed phrases in this verse

namo astu takmanein 3 verses · within AV

ShelfmarkVG:AV:SAU:K06:S020:V002cited as AVS 6.20.2

Ascribed in the apparatus

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

rishiBhṛgvan̄girasInherited from the hymn chandaskakummatī prastirāpan̄ktiStated for this verse

Named inside this verse

DeityProbableRudra DeityProbablePrthivi DeityCertainVaruna

Ideas, acts and things

cosmic entityearth (pṛthivī)The earth as the lower world and as the broad surface that bears living things.cosmic entityheaven (dyaus)The sky as the upper world, father of the pair Heaven-and-Earth.actionhomage (namas)Reverence offered in words and posture, the verbal accompaniment of an offering.conceptkingship (rājan)Rule: the king, his realm and the sovereign authority attributed equally to men and to Varuna.

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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