अथर्ववेद
Atharvaveda Samhita
Śaunaka recension
The domestic and the urgent: healing, protection, rivalry, marriage and statecraft, and the collection that shows most of Vedic life outside the sacrificial ground.
How this collection is divided
Kanda → Sukta → Mantra
Twenty kandas of hymns. The arrangement of the earlier books is largely by hymn length rather than by subject, so a kanda is not a theme.
- Verses
- 5,839
- Translated
- 5,715
- Recited
- 5,451
- Kandas
- 20
What this collection carries
- Accented romanised Sanskrit
- English translation
- Verse-by-verse recitation
- Cross-Veda parallels
- Deity descriptors from the index
- Seer attribution
- Metre
- Deities named in the verse
- Named entities
- Shared formulas
- Concept links
This is one recension of one Samhita. What this edition covers and excludes, and how each kind of coverage is typed, is set out on the scope page.
Index of the collection
20 kandas
Recitation audio
5,451 of 5,839 verses carry their own recitation, one recording per verse.
Sources: VedSearch (5,405), Vedavani (Hugging Face) (46). Each recording’s full provenance, and how it was matched to its verse, is on the reader page.