Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One of the four Vedas, consisting mostly of spells of black and white magic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Hinduism) a collection of mantras and formulas.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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The connections between the heliopter creatures and the use of mind-altering drugs are also abundantly seen in the Sanscrit text, the Atharva-Veda of ancient India, in which the alien force is called Indra and the drugs, soma:
The Book of the SubGenius The SubGenius Foundation 1983
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The connections between the heliopter creatures and the use of mind-altering drugs are also abundantly seen in the Sanscrit text, the Atharva-Veda of ancient India, in which the alien force is called Indra and the drugs, soma:
The Book of the SubGenius The SubGenius Foundation 1983
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The connections between the heliopter creatures and the use of mind-altering drugs are also abundantly seen in the Sanscrit text, the Atharva-Veda of ancient India, in which the alien force is called Indra and the drugs, soma:
The Book of the SubGenius The SubGenius Foundation 1983
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In the Atharva-Veda of ancient India there is a prayer for a mad person, that the gods might “uncraze” him, as the translator has it.
HEALTH AND DISEASE OWSEI TEMKIN 1968
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Atharva-Veda is not a medical work; it contains prayers against many ills and sings the praise of many things.
HEALTH AND DISEASE OWSEI TEMKIN 1968
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BLOOMFIELD, M.: Women as Mourners in the Atharva-Veda.
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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The Atharva-Veda, one of the ancient Vedas, or religious books of the
Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Robert Means Lawrence
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Neither Yoga-Veda shall teach me any more, nor Atharva-Veda, nor the ascetics, nor any kind of teachings.
Siddhartha Hermann Hesse 1919
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The Atharva-Veda is preserved in two recensions, which, though differing in content and arrangement, are of equal extent, comprising 730 hymns and about
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913
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We are told that Sûryavarman I was versed in the Atharva-Veda and also in the
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 Charles Eliot 1896
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