- 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)...
- 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...
- to have dark-coloured waters. The term
Krishana is also
found in the
Atharvaveda. A
later form of
Askikni was
Iskamati (Sanskrit: इस्कामति)[citation needed]...
- 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...
-
According to M. Bloomfield, the 9
shakhas –
schools or
branches – of the
Atharvaveda are: Paippalada, Paippaladaka, Paippaladi, Pippalada, or Paopalayana:...
- 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...
- desire,
later personified as Kamadeva,
appear in the Samhita—Rigveda and
Atharvaveda,
where the
notion of kāma is
presented primarily as an
abstract cosmic...
- Hindukush/Pamir.
Atharvaveda-Parisista
juxtaposes the
Vedic Bahlikas with the
Kambojas (i.e., Kamboja-Bahlika).
Besides the
Atharvaveda Parisista, several...
-
Vedic texts. For example, in one of
several cosmology-related
hymns of
Atharvaveda (~1000 BCE),
Kashyapa is
mentioned in the allegory-filled Book XIX: Undisturbed...
