Reliable critical editions of the Atharvaveda are readily available both in print and online. The cornerstone printed versions remain the multi-volume Atharvaveda Saṁhitā edited by Rudolf Roth (1856–1875) and William Dwight Whitney’s English translation (1895), still prized for their thorough apparatus. For a more modern critical text, William Norman Brown’s collated edition in the Harvard Oriental Series (volumes 48–50) offers fresh philological insights.

Turning to digital resources, GRETIL (Göttingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages) stands out as a one-stop shop. Complete Vedic texts, including the Atharvaveda Saṁhitā in Devanagari, Roman transliteration and occasionally English glosses, are freely downloadable. The Muktabodha Digital Library similarly hosts scanned manuscripts and searchable Unicode editions.

The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit provides morphological analysis and word-sense tagging across Vedic passages, making it easier to trace healing ritual formulas or folk spells within the Atharvaveda’s hymns. Meanwhile, the International Dunhuang Project has begun integrating Central Asian Atharvavedic fragments, offering fresh material for comparative study.

Several university libraries have also launched open-access initiatives: the University of Cologne’s “South Asia Digital Library” features high-resolution scans of key paper manuscripts held at BORI-Pune, and Cambridge University’s Sanskrit Manuscripts Project recently added a trove of 18th-century Atharvaveda copies from Nepal.

On the software side, AI-driven OCR tools like SanskritOCR (2024 update) can turn images of palm-leaf manuscripts into editable text, speeding up transcription of folk magic hymns. For quick reference, sanskritdocuments.org and vedalib.com both host cleaned-up Atharvaveda texts alongside commentaries by later scholars, while the World Digital Library’s Atharvaveda collection showcases rare printed editions from the 19th century.

Diving into these resources makes the Atharvaveda’s blend of spells, healing rituals and folk practices more accessible than ever—definitely worth exploring for anyone keen on the magical side of Vedic lore.