- The
Atharvaveda or
Atharva Veda (Sanskrit: अथर्ववेद, IAST:
Atharvaveda, from अथर्वन्, "priest" and वेद, "knowledge") or is the "knowledge
storehouse of...
-
There are four Vedas: the Rigveda, the Yajurveda, the
Samaveda and the
Atharvaveda. Each Veda has four
subdivisions – the
Samhitas (mantras and benedictions)...
- not
counted in the list of
seven great sages. In some m****cripts of
Atharvaveda, the text is
attributed to "Atharvangirasah",
which is a
compound of...
- are also
alternatively described as the
daughters of Kashyapa. In the
Atharvaveda (Shaunakiya recension, hymn 19.7) a list of 27 stars or
asterisms is...
- as a
beautiful maiden. One hymn in the
Rigveda and five
hymns in the
Atharvaveda are
dedicated to her. In
later Tantric texts she
occupies an important...
-
According to M. Bloomfield, the 9
shakhas –
schools or
branches – of the
Atharvaveda are: Paippalada, Paippaladaka, Paippaladi, Pippalada, or Paopalayana:...
- Hindukush/Pamir.
Atharvaveda-Parisista
juxtaposes the
Vedic Bahlikas with the
Kambojas (i.e., Kamboja-Bahlika).
Besides the
Atharvaveda Parisista, several...
- some
variations in the
Atharvaveda:
Joshi argues that the
Ayodhya city, as
described in the
Taittiriya Aranyaka (and
Atharvaveda), is
obviously a mythical...
-
archaic text of each of the
Vedas (Rigveda, Yajurveda,
Samaveda and
Atharvaveda). The
Vedas have been
divided into four
styles of
texts – the Samhitas...
- only
shakha of the
Atharvaveda for
which both
printed texts and an
active oral
tradition are
known to
still exist. For the
Atharvaveda, both the Shaunakiya...
