A person should refrain from all those things that take him towards, fallacy, misery and degradation. The person who mistreats a noble woman does bad towards a friend, he who is senior but is ignorant is known as a degraded person.Quoted in "God of Desire: Tales of Kamadeva in Sanskrit Story Literature", p.110.In Atharva Veda, kama is associated with the broad range of human desire wanting enemies to be defeated wanting lovers to reciprocate feelings of infatuation, lust, affection, wanting more money and more power in short wanting to be successful in love and work.Vrata mantra ritual from the Atharva Veda, in God of Desire: Tales of Kamadeva in Sanskrit Story Literature, p.97.With desire, I accept you this is for you, for desire. Who gave to whom?Desire gave to desire.ĭesire is the giver and receiver Desire entered the ocean.Atharva Veda quoted by Urmila Sharma, in "Indian Political Thought:Swaraj", P.139.O, men, let the man among you alone be made a king the President of the Assembly – who is a powerful conqueror of foes, is never beaten by them, has the capacity to become the paramount sovereign, is most enlightened, is worthy of being made a President, who possess noble qualities, accomplishments, character and disposition, who is thoroughly worthy of the homage, trust and respect of all.Atharva Veda quoted by Urmila Sharma, in Indian Political Thought:Swaraj,p.139.A King should address the Assembly thus: Let the leader of the Assembly abide by the just laws passed by the Assembly, let other members do the same.Griffith, in The Hymns of the Atharvaveda There are prayers to protect crops from lightning and drought, charms against venomous serpents, love spells, healing spells, hundreds of verses, some derived from the Rig Veda, all very ancient. The Atharva Veda is a Vedic-era collection of spells, prayers, charms, and hymns.Vyasa on Atharva Veda quoted in [ Seer of the Fifth Veda: Kr̥ṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa in the Mahābhārata (Google eBook), p.5.Atharva Veda, in A Garden of Deeds: Ramacharitmanas, a Message of Human Ethics, p.56.His readings generally follow the work of the great scholar Sayana who was Prime Minister at the court of the King of Vijaynagar - in what is now the District of Bellary in the Indian state of Karnataka - in the fourteenth century. His translation of the Rigveda follows the text of Max Müller's six-volume Sanskrit edition. He held the position of principal at the Benares College in India. He also produced translations of other Sanskrit literature, including a verse version of the Ramayana and the Kumara Sambhava of Kalidasa. He translated the Vedic scriptures into English. of Queen's College and was elected to the vacant Sanskrit Scholarship on Nov 24, 1849. Ralph Thomas Hotchkin Griffith (1826-1906) was a scholar of Indology. It incorporates much of the early traditions of healing and magic that are paralleled in other Indo-European literatures. The Atharvaveda, while undoubtedly belonging to the core Vedic corpus, in some ways represents an independent parallel tradition to that of the Rig-Veda and Yajurveda. In the Late Vedic Gopatha Brahmana, it is attributed to the Bhrigu and Angirasa.
According to tradition, the Atharvaveda was mainly composed by two groups of rishis known as the Atharvanas and the Angirasa. The Atharvaveda is a sacred text of Hinduism and one of the four Vedas, often called the "fourth Veda".