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Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 19 — Chapter 38

AV 19 38.1

न तं यक्ष्मा अरुन्धते नैनं शपथो अश्नुते । यं भेषजस्य गुल्गुलोः सुरभिर् गन्धो अश्नुते

na taṃ yakṣmā arundhate nainaṃ śapatho aśnute | yaṃ bheṣajasya gulguloḥ surabhir gandho aśnute

Consumptions do not hold him fast, nor does a curse reach him, whom the fragrant scent of the remedy guggulu reaches.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Never Consumption, never curse touches the man, Arundhatī! Whom the delicious odour of the healing Bdellium penetrates

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 19 38.2

विष्वञ्चस् तस्माद् यक्ष्मा मृगा अश्वा इवेरते । यद् गुल्गुलु सैन्धवं यद् वाप्य् असि समुद्रियम्

viṣvañcas tasmād yakṣmā mṛgā aśvā iverate | yad gulgulu saindhavaṃ yad vāpy asi samudriyam

From him the consumptions run away in all directions, like wild beasts, like horses—whether you are the guggulu from the Indus or that from the sea.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Consumptions flee apart from it as from a wild beast fly the deer. If thou, O Bdellium, art produced from Sindhu or hast come from sea, The quality of both have I taken to keep this man unscathed.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 19 38.3

उभयोर् अग्रभं नामास्मा अरिष्टतातये

ubhayor agrabhaṃ nāmāsmā ariṣṭatātaye

Of both I have seized the name, for his freedom from harm.

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