Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 2 — Chapter 28

AV 2 28.1

तुभ्यम् एव जरिमन् वर्धताम् अयम् मेमम् अन्ये मृत्यवो हिंसिषुः शतं ये । मातेव पुत्रं प्रमना उपस्थे मित्र एनं मित्रियात् पात्व् अंहसः

tubhyam eva jariman vardhatām ayam memam anye mṛtyavo hiṃsiṣuḥ śataṃ ye | māteva putraṃ pramanā upasthe mitra enaṃ mitriyāt pātv aṃhasaḥ

For you alone, O Old Age, let this one grow; let not the other deaths, the hundred that there are, harm him; like a mother attentive to her son in her lap, let Mitra guard him from the distress that comes from a friend.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 2 28.2

मित्र एनं वरुणो वा रिशादा जरामृत्युं कृणुतां संविदानौ । तद् अग्निर् होता वयुनानि विद्वान् विश्वा देवानां जनिमा विवक्ति

mitra enaṃ varuṇo vā riśādā jarāmṛtyuṃ kṛṇutāṃ saṃvidānau | tad agnir hotā vayunāni vidvān viśvā devānāṃ janimā vivakti

Let Mitra, or Varuṇa the destroyer of foes, in accord with each other make him one whose death is (only) in old age; and let Agni the hotṛ, knowing the (right) times, declare all the births of the gods.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 2 28.3

त्वम् ईशिषे पशूनाम् पार्थिवानां ये जाता उत वा ये जनित्राः । मेमं प्राणो हासीन् मो अपानो मेमं मित्रा वधिषुर् मो अमित्राः

tvam īśiṣe paśūnām pārthivānāṃ ye jātā uta vā ye janitrāḥ | memaṃ prāṇo hāsīn mo apāno memaṃ mitrā vadhiṣur mo amitrāḥ

You rule over the earthly animals, those that are born and those yet to be born; let not breath (prāṇa) abandon this one, nor the out-breath (apāna); let neither friends slay him nor enemies.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 2 28.4

द्यौष् ट्वा पिता पृथिवी माता जरामृत्युं कृणुतां संविदाने । यथा जीवा अदितेर् उपस्थे प्राणापानाभ्यां गुपितः शतं हिमाः

dyauṣ ṭvā pitā pṛthivī mātā jarāmṛtyuṃ kṛṇutāṃ saṃvidāne | yathā jīvā aditer upasthe prāṇāpānābhyāṃ gupitaḥ śataṃ himāḥ

Let Heaven your father and Earth your mother, in accord, make you one whose death is (only) in old age, so that you may live in Aditi's lap, guarded by in-breath and out-breath, a hundred winters.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 2 28.5

इमम् अग्ने आयुषे वर्चसे नय प्रियं रेतो वरुण मित्र राजन् । मातेवास्मा अदिते शर्म यछ विश्वे देवा जरदष्टिर् यथासत्

imam agne āyuṣe varcase naya priyaṃ reto varuṇa mitra rājan | mātevāsmā adite śarma yacha viśve devā jaradaṣṭir yathāsat

Lead this one, O Agni, to long life and to splendour; (lead) the dear seed, O Varuṇa, O king Mitra; like a mother, O Aditi, extend shelter to him; O All-Gods, that he may reach old age.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition