Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 1 — Chapter 18

AV 1 18.1

निर् लक्ष्म्यं ललाम्यं निर् अरातिं सुवामसि । अथ या भद्रा तानि नः प्रजाया अरातिं नयामसि

nir lakṣmyaṃ lalāmyaṃ nir arātiṃ suvāmasi | atha yā bhadrā tāni naḥ prajāyā arātiṃ nayāmasi

We drive out the ill-marked (mark), the (one) on the forehead, we drive out hostility; and what things are auspicious, those (we bring) to our offspring—hostility we lead (away).

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

AV 1 18.2

निर् अरणिं सविता साविषक् पदोर् निर् हस्तयोर् वरुणो मित्रो अर्यमा । निर् अस्मभ्यम् अनुमती रराणा प्रेमां देवा असाविषुः सौभगाय

nir araṇiṃ savitā sāviṣak pador nir hastayor varuṇo mitro aryamā | nir asmabhyam anumatī rarāṇā premāṃ devā asāviṣuḥ saubhagāya

Savitṛ has driven the araṇi out of the two feet, out of the two hands (have driven it) Varuṇa, Mitra, Aryaman; Anumati, being gracious, (has driven it) out for us: the gods have driven it forth from her, for good fortune.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

AV 1 18.3

यत् त आत्मनि तन्वां घोरम् अस्ति यद् वा केशेषु प्रतिचक्षणे वा । सर्वं तद् वाचाप हन्मो वयं देवस् त्वा सविता सूदयतु

yat ta ātmani tanvāṃ ghoram asti yad vā keśeṣu praticakṣaṇe vā | sarvaṃ tad vācāpa hanmo vayaṃ devas tvā savitā sūdayatu

Whatever of yours is dreadful in your self, in your body, or in your hair, or in your look—all that we strike away with speech; may the god Savitṛ set you right.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 1 18.4

रिश्यपदीं वृषदतीं गोषेधां विधमाम् उत । विलीढ्यं ललाम्यं ता अस्मन् नाशयामसि

riśyapadīṃ vṛṣadatīṃ goṣedhāṃ vidhamām uta | vilīḍhyaṃ lalāmyaṃ tā asman nāśayāmasi

The one with antelope's feet, with bull's teeth, the cow-scarer and the blower-apart, the licked one, the one with a forehead-mark—those (marks) we make disappear from us.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain