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Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 1 — Chapter 8

AV 1 8.1

इदं हविर् यातुधानान् नादी फेनम् इवा वहत् । य इदं स्त्री पुमान् अकर् इह स स्तुवतां जनः

idaṃ havir yātudhānān nādī phenam ivā vahat | ya idaṃ strī pumān akar iha sa stuvatāṃ janaḥ

Let this oblation carry off the sorcerers as a river carries foam; whoever, woman or man, has done this, let that person here declare himself.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

This sacrifice shall bring the Yātudhānas as the flood brings foam: Here let the doer of this deed woman or man, acknowledge it.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 1 8.2

अयं स्तुवान आगमद् इमं स्म प्रति हर्यत । बृहस्पते वशे लब्ध्वाग्नीषोमा वि विध्यतम्

ayaṃ stuvāna āgamad imaṃ sma prati haryata | bṛhaspate vaśe labdhvāgnīṣomā vi vidhyatam

This one has come praising; take pleasure in him! Bṛhaspati, having got (him) into (your) power, Agni and Soma, pierce (him) through!

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

This one hath come confessing all: do ye receive him eagerly. Master him thou, Brihaspati; Agni and Soma, pierce him through.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 1 8.3

यातुधानस्य सोमप जहि प्रजां नयस्व च । नि स्तुवानस्य पातय परम् अक्ष्य् उतावरम्

yātudhānasya somapa jahi prajāṃ nayasva ca | ni stuvānasya pātaya param akṣy utāvaram

O Soma-drinker, slay and lead away the offspring of the sorcerer. Strike down the farther eye and the nearer eye of the one who praises.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

O Soma-drinker, strike and bring the Yātudhāna's progeny: Make the confessing sinner's eyes fall from his head, both right and left.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 1 8.4

यत्रैषाम् अग्ने जनिमानि वेत्थ गुहा सताम् अत्त्रिणां जातवेदः । तांस् त्वं ब्रह्मणा वावृधानो जह्य् एषां शततर्हम् अग्ने

yatraiṣām agne janimāni vettha guhā satām attriṇāṃ jātavedaḥ | tāṃs tvaṃ brahmaṇā vāvṛdhāno jahy eṣāṃ śatatarham agne

Where, Agni, you know the births of these devourers who are in hiding, O Jātavedas — them, waxing strong by the brahman, slay, O Agni, with a hundredfold rending of them.

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

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

As thou, O Agni Jātavedas, knowest the races of these secret greedy beings, So strengthened by the power of prayer, O Agni, crushing them down a hundred times destroy them.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)