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Atharvaveda, an Uncommon card
The Atharvaveda or Atharvarna Veda is the "knowledge storehouse of atharvans, the procedures for everyday life".
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 75
- DEF
- 90
- Power
- 165
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 110,000
Ranked #1,612 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Atharvaveda quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Atharvaveda card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It is a ______ of 730 hymns with about 6,000 mantras, divided into 20 books.
Answer
collection. It is a collection of 730 hymns with about 6,000 mantras, divided into 20 books. From the Atharvaveda article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Middle Eastern theatre of World War I. Middle Eastern theatre of World War I 85 · List of Benedict Cumberbatch performances 81 · The Jazz Singer 78 · Atharvaveda 75 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
List of Benedict Cumberbatch performances. List of Benedict Cumberbatch performances 300,000 · The Jazz Singer 220,000 · The Bacchae 140,000 · Atharvaveda 110,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The text is the fourth Veda, and is a late addition to the Vedic scriptures of Hinduism.
- The language of the Atharvaveda is different from Rigvedic Sanskrit, preserving pre-Vedic Indo-European archaisms.
- It is a collection of 730 hymns with about 6,000 mantras, divided into 20 books.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Atharvaveda article was read about 110,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 75 and blocks with 90: each hit it takes is cut by 36 %.
How to get Atharvaveda
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- Middle Eastern theatre of World War IUncommon · Arts · ATK 85 DEF 80
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Atharvaveda (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : William Dwight Whitney / Charles Rockwell Lanman, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
