20 Facts About Atharvaveda

Language of the Atharvaveda is different from Vedic Sanskrit, preserving pre-Vedic Indo-European archaisms.

About a sixth of the Atharvaveda texts adapts verses from the Rigveda, and except for Books 15 and 16, the text is mainly in verse deploying a diversity of Vedic meters.

Atharvaveda is sometimes called the "Veda of magical formulas", a description considered incorrect by other scholars.

Atharvaveda was likely compiled as a Veda contemporaneously with Samaveda and Yajurveda, or about 1200 BCE – 1000 BCE.

The latter layer of Atharvaveda text includes three primary Upanishads, influential to various schools of Hindu philosophy.

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Atharvaveda is occasionally referred to as Bhrgvangirasah and Brahmaveda, after Bhrigu and Brahma respectively.

However, notes Max Muller, the hymns of Atharvaveda existed by the time Chandogya Upanishad was completed, but were then referred to as "hymns of Atharvangirasah".

Core text of the Atharvaveda falls within the classical Mantra period of Vedic Sanskrit, during the 2nd millennium BC - younger than the Rigveda, and roughly contemporary with the Yajurveda mantras, the Rigvedic Khilani, and the.

Priests who practised the Atharvaveda were considered to be the lowest tier of Brahmins, in comparison to the priests who practised the Rigveda, Samaveda, or Yajurveda.

The stigma against Atharvaveda priests has continued in Odisha well into the modern day.

Atharvaveda is a collection of 20 books, with a total of 730 hymns of about 6,000 stanzas.

The 143 hymns of the 20th book of Atharvaveda Samhita is almost entirely borrowed from the Rigveda.

Atharvaveda is sometimes called the "Veda of magical formulas", an epithet declared to be incorrect by other scholars.

Many books of the Atharvaveda Samhita are dedicated to rituals without magic and to theosophy.

Atharvaveda Samhita contains hymns many of which were charms, magic spells and incantations meant to be pronounced by the person who seeks some benefit, or more often by a sorcerer who would say it on his or her behalf.

Additionally, the non-Samhita layers of Atharvaveda text include a Brahmana and several influential Upanishads.

Atharvaveda includes mantras and verses for treating a variety of ailments.

Contents of Atharvaveda have been studied to glean information about the social and cultural mores in Vedic era of India.

Atharvaveda includes Gopatha Brahmana text, that goes with Atharva Samhita.

Mundaka Upanishad, embedded inside Atharvaveda, is a poetic-style Upanishad, with 64 verses, written in the form of mantras.