Atharvaveda 9.5.20
Atharvavedasaṃhitā 9.5.20
- Language
- Sanskrit
9.5.20
ajó vā́ idám agne vy àkramata tásyóra iyám abhavad dyáuḥ pr̥ṣṭihám |
antárikṣaṃ mádhyam díśaḥ pārśvé samudráu kukṣī́ ||20||
The goat verily strode out here (idám) in the beginning; this [earth] became its breast, the sky its back, the atmosphere its middle, the quarters its (two) sides, the (two) oceans its paunches;
Translations (2)
- Atharva-Veda Saṃhitā (HOS 7–8) — William Dwight Whitney 1905, English
- The Hymns of the Atharvaveda — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1895, English
Commentaries (2)
- Atharvavedasaṃhitābhāṣya — Mādhavācārya, Sanskrit
- Atharvavedabhāṣya (Sāyaṇa) — Sāyaṇa, Sanskrit
Discussed in (2)
- A Vedic Concordance — Bloomfield 1906, English
- Die Kosmographie der Inder nach den Quellen dargestellt — Kirfel 1920, German