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Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 19 — Chapter 57

AV 19 57.1

यथा कलां यथा शफं यथा र्णं सम्नयन्ति । एवा दुष्वप्न्यं सर्वम् अप्रिये सं नयामसि

yathā kalāṃ yathā śaphaṃ yathā rṇaṃ samnayanti | evā duṣvapnyaṃ sarvam apriye saṃ nayāmasi

As they gather together a part, as a hoof(-share), as a debt, so all evil dreaming we gather together upon the unloved one.

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

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

As men discharge the utmost debt, collect the eighth and sixteenth part, So to the foeman we transfer together all the evil dream.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 19 57.2

सं राजानो अगुः सम् ऋणाम्य् अगुः सं कुष्ठा अगुः सं कला अगुः । सम् अस्मासु यद् दुष्वप्न्यं निर् द्विषते दुष्वप्न्यं सुवाम

saṃ rājāno aguḥ sam ṛṇāmy aguḥ saṃ kuṣṭhā aguḥ saṃ kalā aguḥ | sam asmāsu yad duṣvapnyaṃ nir dviṣate duṣvapnyaṃ suvāma

The kings have come together, the debts(?) have come together, the kuṣṭhas have come together, the parts have come together. Whatever evil dreaming is together in us, let us drive out the evil dreaming upon the hater.

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

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Princes came together, debts came together, Kushthas came to- gether, Sixteenths came together. The whole evil dream that hath visited us we send away as a bad dream to the man who hates us.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 19 57.3

देवानां पत्नीनां गर्भ यमस्य कर यो भद्रः स्वप्न । स मम यः पापस् तद् द्विषते प्र हिण्मः । मा तृष्टानाम् असि कृष्णशकुनेर् मुखम्

devānāṃ patnīnāṃ garbha yamasya kara yo bhadraḥ svapna | sa mama yaḥ pāpas tad dviṣate pra hiṇmaḥ | mā tṛṣṭānām asi kṛṣṇaśakuner mukham

O embryo of the wives of the gods, doer (of the work) of Yama, O Sleep — what of thee is auspicious, that is mine; what is evil, that we send forth upon the hater. Thou art the measure(?) of harsh things, the mouth of the black bird.

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

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Child of Gods' Consorts, minister of Yama is the good Dream: that which is my trouble we drive away to the enemy.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 19 57.4

तं त्वा स्वप्न तथा सं विद्म स त्वं स्वप्नाश्व इव कायम् अश्व इव नीनाहम् । अनास्माकं देवपीयुं पियारुं वप यद् अस्मासु दुष्वप्न्यं यद् गोषु यच् च नो गृहे

taṃ tvā svapna tathā saṃ vidma sa tvaṃ svapnāśva iva kāyam aśva iva nīnāham | anāsmākaṃ devapīyuṃ piyāruṃ vapa yad asmāsu duṣvapnyaṃ yad goṣu yac ca no gṛhe

Thee, O Sleep, being such, we so know; be thou, O Sleep, ... like a horse the body, like a horse ... . Upon the one who is not ours, the reviler of the gods, the scorner, scatter whatever evil dreaming is in us, in our cattle, and in our house.

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

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Thou whose name is Rough art the mouth of the Black Bird. As such we know thee, Dream, as such we know thee well. Like a horse art thou, O Dream. As they bind girth and surcingle on a horse, so bind the alien mischief-maker, the scorner of the Gods.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 19 57.5

अनास्माकस् तद् देवपीयुः पियारुर् निष्कम् इव प्रति मुञ्चताम् । नवारत्नीन् अपमया अस्माकं ततः परि । दुष्वप्न्यं सर्वं द्विषते निर् दयामसि

anāsmākas tad devapīyuḥ piyārur niṣkam iva prati muñcatām | navāratnīn apamayā asmākaṃ tataḥ pari | duṣvapnyaṃ sarvaṃ dviṣate nir dayāmasi

Let that one who is not ours, the reviler of the gods, the scorner, put it on like an ornament. Nine cubits away have I measured (it) from what is ours, away from there. All the evil dreaming we cut off upon the hater.

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

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

The evil dream that threatens us, threatens our cattle or our home. That let the scorner of the Gods, the alien mischief-maker bind as a gold jewel round his neck.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)