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— Albrecht Weber,cautions that it would be incorrect to label Atharvaveda Samhita as mere compilation of magical formulas, witchcraft and sorcery. While such verses are indeed present in the Samhita layer, a significant portion of the Samhita text are hymns for domestic rituals without magic or spells, and some are theosophical speculations such as 'all Vedic gods are One'. Additionally, the non-Samhita layers of Atharvaveda text include a Brahmana and several influential Upanishads. Samhita Surgical and medical treatment The Atharvaveda includes mantras and verses for treating a variety of ailments.

For example, the verses in hymn 4.15 of the recently discovered Paippalada version of the Atharvaveda, discuss how to deal with an open fracture, and how to wrap the wound with Rohini plant ( Infectoria, native to India). Heaven our father, and Earth our mother, Agni the men-watcher,let them send the ten days fever far away from us.O fever, these snowy mountains with Soma on their back have made the wind, the messenger, the healer for us,Disappear from here to the Maratas.Neither the women desire you, nor the men whosoever,Neither a small one, nor a grown-up weeps here from desire of fever.Do not harm our grown-up men, do not harm our grown-up women,Do not harm our boys, do not harm our girls.You who simultaneously discharge the balasa, cough, udraja, terrible are your missiles,O fever, avoid us with them. The tawny colored, and the pale, the variegated and the red,the dusky tinted, and the black – all Plants we summon hitherward.I speak to Healing Herbs spreading, and bushy, to creepers, and to those whose sheath is single,I call for thee the fibrous, and the reed like, and branching plants, dear to Vishwa Devas, powerful, giving life to men.The conquering strength, the power and might, which ye, victorious plants possess,Therewith deliver this man here from this consumption, O ye Plants: so I prepare the remedy.

— Atharvaveda 2.36, Speculations on the nature of man, life, good and evil The Atharvaveda Samhita, as with the other Vedas, includes some hymns such as 4.1, 5.6, 10.7, 13.4, 17.1, 19.53-54, with metaphysical questions on the nature of existence, man, heaven and hell, good and evil. Hymn 10.7 of Atharvaveda, for example, asks questions such as 'what is the source of cosmic order? What and where is planted this notion of faith, holy duty, truth? How is earth and sky held? Is there space beyond the sky? What are seasons and where do they go? Does Skambha (literally 'cosmic pillar', synonym for ) penetrate everything or just somethings?

Does Skambha know the future? Is Skambha the basis of Law, Devotion and Belief? Who or what is Skambha?' The wonderful structure of Man. (.) How many gods and which were they,who gathered the breast, the neck bones of man?how many disposed the two teats?

Who the two collar bones?how many gathered the shoulder bones? How many the ribs?Who brought together his two arms, saying, 'he must perform heroism?' (.) Which was the god who produced his brain, his forehead, his hindhead?(.) Whence now in man come mishap, ruin, perdition, misery?accomplishment, success, non-failure? Whence thought?What one god set sacrifice in man here?who set in him truth? Who untruth?whence death? Whence the immortal?

— Atharvaveda 10.2.4 - 10.2.14, Paippalāda Edition (Abridged),The Atharvaveda, like other Vedic texts, states, goes beyond the duality of heaven and hell, and speculates on the idea of Skambha or Brahman as the all pervasive monism. Good and evil, Sat and Asat (truth and untruth) are conceptualized differently in these hymns of Atharvaveda, and the Vedic thought, wherein these are not dualistic explanation of nature of creation, universe or man, rather the text transcends these and the duality therein. Order is established out of chaos, truth is established out of untruth, by a process and universal principles that transcend good and evil. Prayer for peace Some hymns are prayer qua prayer, desiring harmony and peace.

— Mundaka Upanishad, 3.1.5 Mandukya Upanishad The is the shortest of all the, found in the Atharvaveda text. The text discusses the syllable, presents the theory of four states of consciousness, asserts the existence and nature of (Soul, Self).The Mandukya Upanishad is notable for inspiring 's Karika, a classic for the school of Hinduism. Mandukya Upanishad is among the oft cited texts on chronology and philosophical relationship between Hinduism and Buddhism.

Prashna Upanishad The is from the Paippalada school of Atharvavedins.The text contains six Prashna (questions), and each is a chapter with a discussion of answers. The first three questions are profound metaphysical questions but, states Eduard Roer, do not contain any defined, philosophical answers, are mostly embellished mythology and symbolism. The fourth section, in contrast, contains substantial philosophy. The last two sections discuss the symbol and concept.The Prashna Upanishad is notable for its structure and sociological insights into the education process in ancient India. Manuscripts and translations The Shaunakiya text was published by Rudolf Roth and in 1856, by Shankar Pandurang Pandit in the 1890s, and by Vishva Bandhu in 1960–1962.

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Ralph Griffith translated some chapters into English in 1897, while Maurice Bloomfield published one of the most relied upon translations of the Shaunakiya recension of Atharvaveda in 1899.A corrupted and badly damaged version of the Paippalāda text was edited by Leroy Carr Barret from 1905 to 1940 from a single manuscript (now in ). Discovered palm leaf manuscripts of the Paippalada recension in in 1957. His son Dipak Bhattacharya has published the manuscripts. Thomas Zehnder translated Book 2 of the Paippalada recension into German in 1999, and Arlo Griffiths, Alexander Lubotsky and Carlos Lopez have separately published English translations of its Books 5 through 15. Influence. Rishi Caraka (above), the author of credits Atharvaveda as an inspiration. Medicine and health care Kenneth Zysk states that the 'magico-religious medicine had given way to a medical system based on empirical and rational ideas' in ancient India by around the start of Christian era, still the texts and people of India continued to revere the ancient Vedic texts.

Rishi Sushruta, remembered for his contributions to surgical studies, credits Atharvaveda as a foundation. Similarly, the verse 30.21 of the Caraka Samhita, states it reverence for the Atharvaveda as follows,Therefore, the physician who has inquired in verse 30.20 about which Veda, devotion to the Atharvaveda is ordered from among the four: Rigveda, Samaveda, Yajurveda and Atharvaveda. — Sutrasthara 30.21, AtharvavedaThe roots of – a traditional medical and health care practice in India—states Dominik Wujastyk, are in Hindu texts of and, both of which claim their allegiance and inspiration to be the, especially Atharvaveda.

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Khare and Katiyar state that the Indian tradition directly links Ayurveda to Atharvaveda.Wujastyk clarifies that the Vedic texts are more a religious discourse, and while herbal health care traditions can be found in Atharvaveda, the purely medical literature of ancient India are actually Caraka Samhita and Sushruta Samhita, these two are the real roots of Ayurveda. Kenneth Zysk adds Bhela Samhita to this list. Literature The verse 11.7.24 of Atharvaveda contains the oldest known mention of the Indic literary genre the.The 1st millennium AD literature included books of magico-religious mantras and spells for protection from evil influences of non-human beings such as demons and ghosts. These were called Pirita (Pali: Paritta) and Rakkhamanta ('mantra for protection'), and they share premises and style of hymns found in Atharvaveda. See also.References.