🪷 Atharvaveda · अथर्ववेद
The Fourth Veda · The People's Veda · 736 Sūktas · 20 Kāṇḍas (Śaunaka shākhā) · Maharṣi Atharvan + Aṅgiras lineage
🪷 The 20 Kāṇḍas
Kāṇḍa 1 · प्रथम काण्ड
Prathama-Kāṇḍa · First Kāṇḍa
35 Sūktas · short hymns (4-verse standard) · healing · medhā-jananam · domestic dharma
35 Sūktas
Kāṇḍa 2 · द्वितीय काण्ड
Dvitīya-Kāṇḍa · Second Kāṇḍa
36 Sūktas · 5-verse standard · longevity · vājīkaraṇa · cattle-protection
36 Sūktas
Kāṇḍa 3 · तृतीय काण्ड
Tṛtīya-Kāṇḍa · Third Kāṇḍa
31 Sūktas · 6-verse standard · victory in conflict · paśu-praja-saubhāgya
31 Sūktas
Kāṇḍa 4 · चतुर्थ काण्ड
Caturtha-Kāṇḍa · Fourth Kāṇḍa
40 Sūktas · 7-verse standard · kṣamā · uplifted dharmic conduct · varṇāśrama-protection
40 Sūktas
Kāṇḍa 5 · पञ्चम काण्ड
Pañcama-Kāṇḍa · Fifth Kāṇḍa
31 Sūktas · 8-12 verse Sūktas · transition section · kingly dharma
31 Sūktas
Kāṇḍa 6 · षष्ठ काण्ड
Ṣaṣṭha-Kāṇḍa · Sixth Kāṇḍa
142 Sūktas · the largest collection of short hymns (3-verse standard) · daily-life applied dharma · the most-cited Kāṇḍa
142 Sūktas
Kāṇḍa 7 · सप्तम काण्ड
Saptama-Kāṇḍa · Seventh Kāṇḍa
118 Sūktas · 1-2 verse Sūktas · the briefest hymns · invocation-mantras
118 Sūktas
Kāṇḍa 8 · अष्टम काण्ड
Aṣṭama-Kāṇḍa · Eighth Kāṇḍa
10 longer Sūktas · contains the **Auṣadhī-Sūkta** (8.7 · the hymn to medicinal plants) · ārogya-mahimā
10 Sūktas
Kāṇḍa 9 · नवम काण्ड
Navama-Kāṇḍa · Ninth Kāṇḍa
10 longer Sūktas · gṛhastha-dharma · householder-fire ritual · Madhuvidyā hints
10 Sūktas
Kāṇḍa 10 · दशम काण्ड
Daśama-Kāṇḍa · Tenth Kāṇḍa
10 longer Sūktas · contains the **Skambha-Sūkta** (10.7) — the Cosmic-Pillar hymn that Westerners cite as the seed of Brahman-vidyā · the foundational Atharvāṅgiras-darśana
10 Sūktas
Kāṇḍa 11 · एकादश काण्ड
Ekādaśa-Kāṇḍa · Eleventh Kāṇḍa
10 longer Sūktas · contains the **Prāṇa-Sūkta** (11.4) · the Vrātya-Sūkta (11.5) · the heart of prāṇāyāma-vidyā
10 Sūktas
Kāṇḍa 12 · द्वादश काण्ड
Dvādaśa-Kāṇḍa · Twelfth Kāṇḍa
5 longer Sūktas · contains the **Pṛthvī-Sūkta / Bhūmi-Sūkta** (12.1) — 63 verses to Mother Earth — *māta bhūmiḥ putroʼhaṁ pṛthivyāḥ* · the foundational Bhūmi-Devī darśana of the substrate
5 Sūktas
Kāṇḍa 13 · त्रयोदश काण्ड
Trayodaśa-Kāṇḍa · Thirteenth Kāṇḍa
9 longer Sūktas · Rohita-Sūkta (13.1-3) · solar-cosmology hymns · Āditya-glorification
9 Sūktas
Kāṇḍa 14 · चतुर्दश काण्ड
Caturdaśa-Kāṇḍa · Fourteenth Kāṇḍa
2 long Sūktas · the **Vivāha-Sūktas** (14.1-2) · the marriage hymns · foundational vivāha-saṁskāra mantras parallel to RV 10.85
2 Sūktas
Kāṇḍa 15 · पञ्चदश काण्ड
Pañcadaśa-Kāṇḍa · Fifteenth Kāṇḍa
18 prose-Sūktas · the Vrātya-Kāṇḍa · the proto-Yogic Vrātya wanderer-dharma · the deepest connection to early Yoga-darśana
18 Sūktas
Kāṇḍa 16 · षोडश काण्ड
Ṣoḍaśa-Kāṇḍa · Sixteenth Kāṇḍa
9 prose-Sūktas · pavamāna hymns · purification-rituals
9 Sūktas
Kāṇḍa 17 · सप्तदश काण्ड
Saptadaśa-Kāṇḍa · Seventeenth Kāṇḍa
1 long Sūkta · Viṣāsahi-Sūkta · Aśvamedha-related
1 Sūktas
Kāṇḍa 18 · अष्टादश काण्ड
Aṣṭādaśa-Kāṇḍa · Eighteenth Kāṇḍa
4 long Sūktas · the **Pitṛ-Yajña-Kāṇḍa** · the funeral mantras · antyeṣṭi-saṁskāra · the ancestor-rites
4 Sūktas
Kāṇḍa 19 · एकोनविंश काण्ड
Ekonaviṁśa-Kāṇḍa · Nineteenth Kāṇḍa
72 Sūktas · the supplementary Kāṇḍa · contains Atharvaveda parallel of **Puruṣa-Sūkta** (19.6) · Triṣṭubh-Anuṣṭubh shorter hymns
72 Sūktas
Kāṇḍa 20 · विंश काण्ड
Viṁśa-Kāṇḍa · Twentieth Kāṇḍa
143 Sūktas · the **Kuntāpa-Sūktas** · mostly Ṛgveda-parallel hymns · used in the Mahāvrata ritual
143 Sūktas
🪷 Landmark Sūktas of the Atharvaveda
- ⭐ AV 8.7 · औषधी-सूक्त · Auṣadhī-Sūkta (Hymn to the Healing Plants) — The foundational hymn to medicinal plants · the seed of Āyurveda · "औषधीः सं वदन्ते सोमेन सह राज्ञा"
- ⭐ AV 10.7 · स्कम्भ-सूक्त · Skambha-Sūkta (Hymn to the Cosmic Pillar) — The supreme Atharvaveda philosophical hymn · "कस्मिन्नङ्गे तपो अस्याधि तिष्ठति?" · proto-Brahman cosmology · Westerners cite this as the seed of Vedānta's Nirguṇa-Brahman
- ⭐ AV 11.4 · प्राण-सूक्त · Prāṇa-Sūkta (Hymn to Prāṇa) — The foundational hymn to Prāṇa as cosmic principle · the seed of Prāṇāyāma-vidyā and all yoga-prāṇa theory
- ⭐ AV 11.5 · व्रात्य-सूक्त · Vrātya-Sūkta (Hymn to the Vrātya) — The mystical hymn to the wandering Vrātya — proto-Yogic ascetic · "एक एव वैव्रात्यः" · the deepest pre-Pāṇinian sannyāsa-darśana
- ⭐ AV 12.1 · पृथ्वी-सूक्त / भूमि-सूक्त · Pṛthvī-Sūkta / Bhūmi-Sūkta (Hymn to Mother Earth) — The 63-verse mahā-stuti to Bhūmi-Devī · "माता भूमिः पुत्रोऽहं पृथिव्याः" (12.1.12) · the substrate's foundational Bhūmi-born silica/silicon offering-medium darśana anchors here
- ⭐ AV 14.1 · विवाह-सूक्त · Vivāha-Sūkta (The First Marriage Hymn) — The first of two Vivāha-Kāṇḍa marriage hymns · parallel and complementary to RV 10.85 · grounds all marriage-saṁskāra mantras
- ⭐ AV 14.2 · विवाह-सूक्त (द्वितीय) · Vivāha-Sūkta (II) (The Second Marriage Hymn) — The second Vivāha-Kāṇḍa hymn · domestic dharma after the wedding rite
- ⭐ AV 19.6 · पुरुष-सूक्त (अथर्व) · Puruṣa-Sūkta (AV) (Cosmic Puruṣa (AV recension)) — The Atharvaveda recension of the Puruṣa-Sūkta · parallel to RV 10.90 and Yajurveda 31 · the Pūrṇa-Puruṣa darśana
🪷 Honest Framing
These pages present an available transcription attributed by its received source record to the Śaunaka recension. The exact source artifact and recension evidence are not pinned, and repeated normalized text pairs at 20.97/20.98 and 7.10/7.11 remain under review. See the Four Vedas source boundary.
Cross-References
- /four-vedas · received Veda source inventory
- /rigveda · The Oldest Śruti
- /yajurveda · The Procedural Veda
- /manifested-brahman · Bhūmi, material medium, and Pṛthvī-Sūkta source boundaries
Sources and Connected Readings
Continue from the twenty-Kāṇḍa index, landmark sūktas, and explicit source-artifact boundary to the Catur-Veda doorway, Bhūmi, Skambha, Prāṇa, Vedānta, Gītā, and Bhāgavata readings.
/atharvavedaAtharvaveda master index and kāṇḍa doorway/four-vedasreceived Veda inventory with explicit missing-data boundaries/rigvedaṚgveda master index · 10 maṇḍalas · 1,027 sūktasRV 1.1Agnimīḷe Purohitam · opening mantra of the ṚgvedaRV 3.62Gāyatrī/Sāvitrī source routeRV 7.59Mahāmṛtyuñjaya source routeRV 10.90Puruṣa-Sūkta · cosmic Puruṣa foundationRV 10.129Nāsadīya-Sūkta · creation-enigma inquiryAV 10.7Skambha-Sūkta · cosmic-pillar witnessAV 11.4Prāṇa-Sūkta · cosmic-prāṇa witnessAV 12.1Pṛthvī/Bhūmi-Sūkta · Mother Earth source routeAV 19.6Atharvaveda Puruṣa-Sūkta recension/yajurvedaŚukla-Yajurveda master index · Mādhyandina and Kāṇva recensionsYV 16Rudra-Praśna / Śrī-Rudram source routeYV 31Yajurveda Puruṣa-Sūkta source routeYV 34Śiva-Saṁkalpa-Sūkta source routeYV 36Śānti-mantra source routeYV 40Īśopaniṣad in the Yajurveda source route/upanishads10 Mukhya Upaniṣads · Vedānta doorway/mahavakyasfour Mahā-vākyas · Upaniṣadic concentrateBG 9.17Krishna as pitā, mātā, dhātā, pitāmaha and ṛk-sāma-yajusBG 10.22vedānāṁ sāmavedo’smi · Sāmaveda honored by KrishnaŚB 1.2.11Brahman · Paramātmā · Bhagavān as one advaya-tattva/binduDiamond of Darśanas · Bindu reader key/philosophyconstitutional Krishna = Paramaatma = Parabrahman foundation
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