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)