Atharva Veda : also called Atharvān (Ātharvana), after its creator.
... describes the knowledge contained in the pre-Vedic tradition as also the Vedic tradition proper. Among the four Vedas (Rig Veda, Yajur Veda, Sama Veda, and Atharva Veda), the Rig Veda is pre-eminent. According to one tradition, Atharva Veda was a later addition. The Rig Veda consists of 10 Mandalas (parts) and each Mandala consists of a number of Suktas, and each one of the Suktas consists of a ...
... Indian Yoga Appendix Significance of The Veda in The Context of Indian Religion And Spirituality The four Vedas (Rig Veda, Yajur Veda, Sama Veda and Atharva Veda) are samhitas, collections or compilations of selections made by Veda Vyasa. There was evidently at that time a larger body of compositions, and since they spoke of the old and new Rishis 1 and... are related to Krishna Yajurveda; Brihadaranyaka and Isha, which are related to Shukla Yajurveda; Kena and Chhandogya, which are related to Sama Veda; and Prashna and Mundaka, which are related to Atharva Veda. 12. We may also refer to the passage of the Taittiriya in which Indra appears as a power of the divine mind. The passage of the Prashna Upanishad may also be referred to where the power and ...
... the soil is my mother...." ( Atharva Veda XII.1) Having traveled to the frontiers of the Infinite, they did not find that the small things here were small: "O Godhead, guard for us the Infinite and lavish the finite." ( Rig Veda IV.2.11) "May we speak the beauty of thee, O Earth, that is in thy villages and forests and assemblies and wars and battles." ( Atharva Veda XII.44.56) They battled, and... 293 On the Veda, 46 × 294 Rig Veda, Sama Veda, Yajur Veda, Atharva Veda. × 295 According to Indian tradition, each cycle has four periods: Satya-yuga , the age of ...
... mother.... May she lavish on me her manifold treasure, her secret riches.... May we speak the beauty of thee, O Earth, that is in thy villages and forests and assemblies and war and battles. Atharva Veda. (XII. 1. 12, 44, 56.) May Earth, sovereign over the past and the future, make for us a wide world.... Earth that was the water on the Ocean and whose course the thinkers follow by... by the magic of their knowledge, she who has her heart of immortality covered up by the Truth in the supreme ether, may she stablish for us light and power in that most high kingdom. Atharva Veda. (XII. 1. 1, 8.) O Flame, thou foundest the mortal in a supreme immortality for increase of inspired Knowledge day by day; for the seer who has thirst for the dual birth, thou createst divine ...
... and of the world. The Vedas speak of the Rishis of the past and of the New Age (pūrvebhih nūtanaih, Rig Veda (RV), 1.1.2). 2 There are four Vedas, — Rig Veda, Yajur Veda, Sama Veda and Atharva Veda. Among the Vedas the Rig Veda occupies a prominent place. It consists of ten books or Mandalas and one thousand seventeen hymns or suktas. The total number of verses in Rig Veda is ten thousand... References may be made in particular, to 1.11.5,1.32.4,1.72.8,1.100.18, V.14.4, VI.60.2, VII.75.7, VII.90.4, VII.99.4. Refer also to IL15.8, III.43.7, III.31.15, VI.44.3 and VII.99.4, X.47.6. 14 Atharva Veda, 12.1.1, RV., X.190.1. 15 Vide., Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda, Vol. 10, SABCL, 1972, pp. 54-64, 263-271, 351-419. 16. Vide., RV., 1.4. 17 Vide., RV., I.4.8. 18 ...
... third is called Sama Veda; and the fourth is called Atharva Veda. These are four huge volumes. Rig Veda is the biggest. It has ten chapters and totally it has ten thousand verses. Ten thousand verses! In a recent publication, the mere Sanskrit text along with the English translation has come to twelve volumes, the Rig Veda alone. The Atharva Veda is half of the Rig Veda, the Same Veda is the shortest ...
... सामवेदोऽथर्ववेदः शिक्षा कल्पो व्याकरणं निरुक्तं छन्दो ज्योतिषमिति । अथ परा यया तदक्षरमधिगम्यते ॥५॥ Page 131 5) Of which the lower, the Rig Veda and the Yajur Veda and the Sama Veda and the Atharva Veda, chanting, ritual, grammar, etymological interpretation, and prosody and astronomy. And then the higher by which is known the Immutable. यत् तदद्रेश्यमग्राह्यमगोत्रमवर्णमचक्षुःश्रोत्रं तदपाणिपादम् ...
... how the archaeologists have very little evidence that the Harappā Culture is non-Vedic... When you say that the Harappā Civilization belongs to the later phase of the Vedic Culture, that is, the Atharva Veda, etc., it is also understandable. "But we have got to show that there are traces of Vedic Aryans of a still earlier date to be found in India and they must go back to at least two thousand ...
... "Kachcha-yana" is the Pall for "Kātyāyana", and "Kabandhī" equates to "Kakuda": see The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1932, 603 ff. Apropos of this equation, Raychaudhuri 3 notes: "Kabandha in the Atharva Veda, X.2.3 means srona and uru (hips and thighs). According to Amara kakudmati has substantially the same meaning." Raychaudhuri 4 goes on: "The reference to Gotama's contemporary as a master ...
... Notes and References ' It is believed that in its original condition Veda was one, but it was Rishi Vyasa who divided it into collections, Samhitas, Rig Veda, Yajur Veda, Sama Veda, and Atharva Veda. The antiquity of the Veda has been a subject of discussion and dispute. But it is acknowledged that it is the oldest available record in the world. '2-Rig Veda (7?VJ, X.67.1. 3 The ...
... Artha, 49 Arthashastra, 105 Arum, 68,69, 70,78,80 Aryaman, 10,11,12 Aryan,12 Ashoka, 84 Ashram, 18,34 Ashwins, 12,13 Ashvamedha, 42 Astronomy, 44 Atharva Veda, 6,105 Atheism, 61 Adantis, 1 Atman, 30, 82 Aurangzeb, 85 Avidya, 29 Ayurveda, 104 Badarayana, 88,95 Bedekar, V.M, 71,75,78,82 Being, Pure, 58 ...
... of the waters; if perchance it lifted that also, there would be then neither today nor tomorrow, nor would there be day or night nor would there be dawning any more. Atharva Veda 11.4.21 Thus said the Vedic Rishi. Even so, when the Mother withdrew physically from this earth we presumed that she did so with one foot only; the other foot she left planted ...
... Sachchidananda on earth. Ancient wisdom saw the potential greatness of the earth. In the Vedas the earth is called the foothold of God and the mother of all creatures whose father is Heaven. In the Atharva Veda we have : "I am a son of Earth, the soil is my mother...May she lavish on me her manifold treasure, her secret riches.... May we speak the beauty of thee, O Earth, that is in thy villages and forests ...
... shall live". —Book XI, Canto I Compare: Gita 12-8; 9, 34; l0, 9 "And step into the Truth, the Right, the Vast." —Book XI Canto I Compare: "Satyam, Ritam, Brihat" Atharva Veda "All earth shall be the Spirit's manifest home" —Book XI Canto I Compare: "All this is for habitation by the Lord" Isha The difference is "Manifest home" in Savitri ...
... total of about 165 epigraphs distributed between fifty-six chapters, as many as 85 are from the Upanishads, nearly 60 from the Vedas (mostly from the Rig Veda, and one from Yajur Veda and three from Atharva Veda), over 20 from the Gita, and one each from the Vishnu Purana and Sankara's Vivekachudamani. To sustain an argument (be it pūrva-paksa or siddhānta) by reference to ancient authority has ...
... mortals... is established inwardly as an energy working out our divine powers." And this: "Let us conquer even here, let us run this battle-race of a hundred leadings." And again this, from the Atharva Veda: "I am a son of Earth, the soil is my mother." And this: "May we speak the beauty of thee, O Earth, that is in thy villages and forests and assemblies of war and battles." The people who uttered ...
... the external life of man; hence the force of prayer, worship, sacrifice for material ends; hence the use of them for worldly life and in so-called magic rites which comes out prominently in the Atharva Veda and is behind much of the symbolism of the Brahmanas. 5 But in man himself the gods are conscious psychological powers. "Will-powers, they do the works of will; they are the thinkings in our ...
... gather them together,—let me see of thee thy happiest form of all; that Conscious Being everywhere, He am I. Isha Upanishad. (Verses 15, 16.) The Truth, the Right, the Vast. Atharva Veda. (XII. 1. 1.) It became both truth and falsehood. It became the Truth, even all this that is. Taittiriya Upanishad. (II. 6.) One point remains to be cleared which we ...
... well we fall under the spell of certain sounds. That reminds me in general of the magical effects of incomprehensible words. A name, in ancient thought, was a clue to the nature of a thing. In the Atharva Veda we find a Rishi saying: "O fever, I know thy name. Page 87 Thou shalt not escape me." The practice of modern doctors, in order to create impressive authority for themselves, is ...
... and our forefathers sat together to share a drink (X.135.1); two birds of beautiful plumage dwell on it (I.164.22); this is the same tree whose leaves rustle as the Winds blow (V.54.12). In the Atharva Veda this Ashwattha tree is located in the third celestial world, the World of Varuna. Once Agni, in the guise of a horse, Ashwa, stayed under this tree for a year and hence it is called Ashwattha.. ...
... the knowledge that must be known of which the knowers of the Brahman tell, the higher and the lower knowledge." "Of which the lower, the Rigveda and the Yajurveda, and the Samaveda, and the Atharva veda, chanting, ritual, grammar, etymological interpretation, and prosody, and astronomy. And then the higher by which is known the Immutable." "That the invisible, that the unseizable, without ...
... statement could be useful and may serve the limited purpose that we have in view. Significance of Agni as the First Step Among the four Vedas (Rig Veda, Yajur Veda, Sama Veda and Atharva Veda), Rig Veda is preeminent. In this Veda, the largest number of hymns are addressed and related to Agni, the mystic fire. This fact is significant, and it provides the central key to the treasure ...
... Glimpses of Vedic Literature Atharva veda ...
... Glimpses of Vedic Literature A Ahina 56 Antaratma 118 Aranyaka Literature 81 Ashwamedha 43 Atharva Veda 59 ...
... does not exist apart from It. He who says it does is still under delusion — he babbles like 1 one asleep. This universe is verily Brahman — such is the august pronouncement of the Atharva Veda. Therefore this universe is nothing but Brahman, for that which is superimposed (on something) has no separate existence from its substratum. Hence whatever is manifested, viz. this ...
... Infinite, its movement or stirring could be seen as Time. The dance of Kali within the bosom of Shiva. Shiva is Space and Kali, Time. In this regard I asked him to go through the Kala-sukta of the Atharva Veda and the famous saying 'Kaloasmi' from the Gita, For me these two facets. Space and Time are two expressions of God. There is a saying in the Veda: 'Kalah sah iyatey paramo noo devah' : the intense ...
... Saw the Mother today. Mother decided to give me room in Z. house so that I might go to the terrace in the evenings (to stay there as long as she was on the terrace). Spoke about skambha.† (Atharva Veda X.7)‡ I had meditation at the Feet, conversation and music .... *Significances of the flowers given by the Mother are put here in capitals, †Sastriar used to wait on the roof of ...
... to the external life of man; hence the force of prayer, worship, sacrifice for material ends; hence the use of them for worldly life and in so-called magic rites which come out prominently in the Atharva Veda and is behind much of the symbolism of the Brahmanas.12 But in man him- self the gods are conscious psychological powers. Will- powers, they do the works of will; they are the thinkings in our ...
... pursuit of the earth, we may recollect, was due to his anger at the neglect of Vedic rites and proper service. In the Rigveda he figures in one hymn (X. 148.5) as a rishi under a name similar to the Atharva-veda's for him: he is Venya Prithī. 3 There is, further, the suggestion from the compilers of the Vedic Index (II, p. 16) that, as Patil 4 puts it, "Prithu of the Rigveda was probably a vegetation... Imperial Guptas. Our task now is to search in India's traditional accounts for an Indian analogue of Dionysus. Along with the Purānas, we must draw upon other repositories of tradition - the Vedas, the Brahmanas and the Epics. Dionysus in India The Greek Dionysus is, in the first place, a religious figure, the god of wine. Hence, strictly speaking, his Indian analogue... gods of Soma. Vena in the Rigveda is not only called (X.93.14) a "generous patron", the original bounty which in the Purānas is 1. Ibid. 2. Ibid., p. 24. 3.Sri Aurobindo, On the Veda (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1956), p. 143. 4. Ibid., pp. 132, 134. 5. Ibid., p. 141. 6. Ibid., p. 220. 7. Ibid., p. 235. Page 86 pictured as becoming ...
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