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Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 1 — Chapter 32

AV 1 32.1

इदं जनासो विदथ महद् ब्रह्म वदिष्यति । न तत् पृथिव्यां नो दिवि येन प्राणन्ति वीरुधः

idaṃ janāso vidatha mahad brahma vadiṣyati | na tat pṛthivyāṃ no divi yena prāṇanti vīrudhaḥ

Know this, O people: he will speak a great spell (brahman). It is not on earth nor in heaven — that by which the plants breathe.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Ye people, hear and mark this well: he will pronounce a mighty prayer: That which gives breathing to the Plants is not on earth nor in, the heaven.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 1 32.2

अन्तरिक्ष आसां स्थाम श्रान्तसदाम् इव । आस्थानम् अस्य भूतस्य विदुष् टद् वेधसो न वा

antarikṣa āsāṃ sthāma śrāntasadām iva | āsthānam asya bhūtasya viduṣ ṭad vedhaso na vā

In the mid-space is their station, as of those who sit down weary; the standing-place of this existing (world) — the wise ones know it, or perhaps not.

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

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Their station, as of those who rest when weary, is in midmost air: The base whereon this world is built, the sages know or know it not.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 1 32.3

यद् रोदसी रेजमाने भूमिश् च निरतक्षतम् । आर्द्रं तद् अद्य सर्वदा समुद्रस्येव श्रोत्याः

yad rodasī rejamāne bhūmiś ca niratakṣatam | ārdraṃ tad adya sarvadā samudrasyeva śrotyāḥ

What the two trembling world-halves and the earth fashioned out — that is moist today and always, like the channels of the ocean.

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

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What the two trembling hemispheres and ground produced and fashioned forth. This All, is ever fresh to-day, even as the currents of the sea.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 1 32.4

विश्वम् अन्याम् अभीवार तद् अन्यस्याम् अधि श्रितम् । दिवे च विश्ववेदसे पृथिव्यै चाकरं नमः

viśvam anyām abhīvāra tad anyasyām adhi śritam | dive ca viśvavedase pṛthivyai cākaraṃ namaḥ

The whole (of it) he has covered over on the one; that is supported upon the other. And to the sky, the all-knowing, and to the earth I have made homage.

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

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

This All hath compassed round the one, and on the other lies at rest. To Earth and all-possessing Heaven mine adoration have I paid.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)