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Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 1 — Chapter 28

AV 1 28.1

उप प्रागाद् देवो अग्नी रक्षोहामीवचातनः । दहन्न् अप द्वयाविनो यातुधानान् किमीदिनः

upa prāgād devo agnī rakṣohāmīvacātanaḥ | dahann apa dvayāvino yātudhānān kimīdinaḥ

The god Agni has come forth, slayer of demons, dispeller of disease, burning away the double-dealers, the sorcerers, the kimīdins.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

God Agni hath come forth to us, fiend-slayer, chaser of disease, Burning the Yātudhānas up, Kimidins, and deceitful ones.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 1 28.2

प्रति दह यातुधानान् प्रति देव किमीदिनः । प्रतीचीः कृष्णवर्तने सं दह यातुधान्यः

prati daha yātudhānān prati deva kimīdinaḥ | pratīcīḥ kṛṣṇavartane saṃ daha yātudhānyaḥ

Burn against the sorcerers, burn against the kimīdins, O god; burn up the sorceresses turned back toward (you), O you of the black track.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Consume the Yātudhānas, God! meet the Kimidins with thy flame: Burn up the Yātudhānis as they face thee, thou whose path is black!

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 1 28.3

या शशाप शपनेन याघं मूरम् आदधे । या रसस्य हरणाय जातम् आरेभे तोकम् अत्तु सा

yā śaśāpa śapanena yāghaṃ mūram ādadhe | yā rasasya haraṇāya jātam ārebhe tokam attu sā

She who has cursed with a curse, who has laid on an evil root, who to carry off the sap has seized the newborn child — let her eat (her own offspring).

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

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

She who hath cursed us with a curse, or hath conceived a murderous sin; Or seized our son to take his blood, let her devour the child she bare.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 1 28.4

पुत्रम् अत्तु यातुधानीः स्वसारम् उत नप्त्यम् । अधा मिथो विकेश्यो वि घ्नतां यातुधान्यो वि तृह्यन्ताम् अराय्यः

putram attu yātudhānīḥ svasāram uta naptyam | adhā mitho vikeśyo vi ghnatāṃ yātudhānyo vi tṛhyantām arāyyaḥ

Let the sorceress eat (her own) son, and sister, and granddaughter; then let the dishevelled sorceresses smite one another apart, let the arāyī-demonesses be torn apart.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Let her, the Yātudhāni eat son, sister, and her daughter's. child. Now let the twain by turns destroy the wild-haired Yātudhānis- and crush down Arāyis to the earth!

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)