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Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 1 — Chapter 24

AV 1 24.1

सुपर्णो जातः प्रथमस् तस्य त्वं पित्तम् आसिथ । तद् आसुरी युधा जिता रूपं चक्रे वनस्पतीन्

suparṇo jātaḥ prathamas tasya tvaṃ pittam āsitha | tad āsurī yudhā jitā rūpaṃ cakre vanaspatīn

The eagle was born first; you were its bile. Then the Āsurī, conquered in battle, took on the trees as her form.

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

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

First, before all, the strong-winged Bird was born;; thou wast the gall thereof. Conquered in fight, the Asuri took then the shape and form of plants.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 1 24.2

आसुरी चक्रे प्रथमेदं किलासभेषजम् इदं किलासनाशनम् । अनीनशत् किलासं सरूपाम् अकरत् त्वचम्

āsurī cakre prathamedaṃ kilāsabheṣajam idaṃ kilāsanāśanam | anīnaśat kilāsaṃ sarūpām akarat tvacam

The Āsurī made first this remedy for the leprous spot, this destroyer of the leprous spot; it destroyed the leprous spot, it made the skin uniform in colour.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

The Asuri made, first of all, this medicine for leprosy, this banisher of leprosy. She banished leprosy, and gave one general colour to the skin.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 1 24.3

सरूपा नाम ते माता सरूपो नाम ते पिता । सरूपकृत् त्वम् ओषधे सा सरूपम् इदं कृधि

sarūpā nāma te mātā sarūpo nāma te pitā | sarūpakṛt tvam oṣadhe sā sarūpam idaṃ kṛdhi

Sarūpā ('of like colour') by name is your mother, Sarūpa by name your father; you are a maker of like colour, O plant — so make this (skin) of like colour.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

One-coloured, is thy mother's name, One-coloured is thy father called: One-colour-maker, Plant! art thou: give thou one colour to this man.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 1 24.4

श्यामा सरूपंकरणी पृथिव्या अध्य् उद्भृता । इदम् ऊ षु प्र साधय पुना रूपाणि कल्पय

śyāmā sarūpaṃkaraṇī pṛthivyā adhy udbhṛtā | idam ū ṣu pra sādhaya punā rūpāṇi kalpaya

Dark one, maker of uniform colour, brought up out of the earth: accomplish this well now, arrange the colours once again.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Sāmā who gives one general hue was formed and fashioned from the earth: Further this work efficiently. Restore the colours that were his.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)