ATHARVA-VEDA • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Atharva-Veda

... perfect as a whole, are actually divided into four parts, each in itself constituting a separate Veda under a special title. These are the Rig-Veda, the Yajur-Veda (white and black), the Sama-Veda, and the Atharva-Veda, or Ayur-Veda. Although the last is admitted to be as a whole not so ancient as the other three, still there are portions of it that are probably as old as any of the others. Even in the oldest epic poems of the Hindoos mention is made of four Vedas as already in existence and as of ...

— On the Antiquity of the Chemical Art • James Mactear

... a higher moral and religious point of view, as a purification from sin; for poena, as first shown by Professor Pott (and what has he not been the first to show?) is closely connected with the root pu, to purify. Thus we read in the "Atharva-veda," xix. 33, 3:— ...

— Chips from a German Workshop - Volume IV - Essays chiefly on the Science of Language • Max Muller