bráhma jajñānáṃ prathamáṃ purástād ví sīmatáḥ surúco vená āvaḥ |
sá budhnyā̀ upamā́ asya viṣṭhā́ḥ satáś ca yónim ásataś ca ví vaḥ ||1||
The ''bráhman'' that was first born of old (''purástāt;'' in the east?) Vena hath unclosed from the well-shining edge (''sīmatás;'' horizon?); he unclosed the fundamental nearest shapes (''viṣṭhā́'') of it, the womb (''yóni'') of the existent and of the non-existent.
William Dwight Whitney (revised and edited by Charles Rockwell Lanman)
Both passages fold to the same comparison surface. Accents, word breaks and sandhi are removed before comparison, so this string is not how either text reads.
bráhma jajñānáṃ prathamáṃ purástād ví sīmatáḥ surúco vená āvaḥ |
sá budhnyā̀ upamā́ asya viṣṭhā́ḥ satáś ca yónim ásataś ca ví vaḥ ||1||
The ''bráhman'' that was first born of old (''purástāt;'' in the east?) Vena hath unclosed from the well-shining edge (''sīmatás;'' horizon?); he unclosed the fundamental nearest shapes (''viṣṭhā́'') of it, the womb (''yóni'') of the existent and of the non-existent.
William Dwight Whitney (revised and edited by Charles Rockwell Lanman)
Eastward at first was Brahma generated. Vena o’erspread
the bright Ones from the summit,
Disclosed his deepest nearest revelations, womb of existent
and of non-existent.
Ralph T. H. Griffith
The surface that matched
Both passages fold to the same comparison surface. Accents, word breaks and sandhi are removed before comparison, so this string is not how either text reads.
These links are derived by comparing normalised Sanskrit surfaces. They show that two collections carry the same wording. They are not, by themselves, a demonstrated line of transmission between them, and the direction stored on an edge is a property of how it was built.
Atharvaveda is one of four collections held here. Cross-corpus comparison bottoms out at the weakest shared surface, because a Devanagari text and a romanised text share no code points.
How these were derived1
Parallelism is symmetric and this graph stores it as a directed edge, so these relations are traversed in both directions and each row states which way the stored edge ran. All 1,684 REUSES_TEXT_FROM edges point Samaveda-to-Rigveda, and 1,421 Rigvedic passages have reuse edges only inbound; following the arrow would show those 1,421 verses no reuse at all.