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Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 2 — Chapter 3

AV 2 3.1

अदो यद् अवधावत्य् अवत्कम् अधि पर्वतात् । तत् ते कृणोमि भेषजं सुभेषजं यथाससि

ado yad avadhāvaty avatkam adhi parvatāt | tat te kṛṇomi bheṣajaṃ subheṣajaṃ yathāsasi

That which runs down yonder, the little stream from off the mountain—that I make a remedy for you, so that you may be one with a good remedy.

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

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That little spring of water which is running downward from the hill I turn to healing balm for thee that thou mayst be good medicine.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 2 3.2

आद् अङ्गा कुविद् अङ्ग शतं या भेषजानि ते । तेषाम् असि त्वम् उत्तमम् अनास्रावम् अरोगणम्

ād aṅgā kuvid aṅga śataṃ yā bheṣajāni te | teṣām asi tvam uttamam anāsrāvam arogaṇam

Then indeed, surely indeed, of those hundred remedies that are yours, you are the highest of them—stopping the flux, removing disease.

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

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Hither and onward! Well! Come on! Among thy hundred remedies Most excellent of all art thou, curing disease and morbid flow.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 2 3.3

नीचैः खनन्त्य् असुरा अरुस्राणम् इदं महत् । तद् आस्रावस्य भेषजं तद् उ रोगम् अनीनशत्

nīcaiḥ khananty asurā arusrāṇam idaṃ mahat | tad āsrāvasya bheṣajaṃ tad u rogam anīnaśat

Downward the Asuras dig this great wound-healer: that is the remedy for the flux, that has made the disease vanish.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

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The Asuras bury deep in earth this mighty thing that healeth wounds. This is the cure for morbid flow, this driveth malady away.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 2 3.4

उपजीका उद् भरन्ति समुद्राद् अधि भेषजम् । तद् आस्रावस्य भेषजं तद् उ रोगम् अशीशमत्

upajīkā ud bharanti samudrād adhi bheṣajam | tad āsrāvasya bheṣajaṃ tad u rogam aśīśamat

The ants bring up the remedy from out of the sea: that is the remedy for the flux, that has quieted the disease.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

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The emmets from the water-flood produce this healing medicine: This is the cure for morbid flow, this driveth malady away.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 2 3.5

अरुस्राणम् इदं महत् पृथिव्या अध्य् उद्भृतम् । तद् आस्रावस्य भेषजं तद् उ रोगम् अनीनशत्

arusrāṇam idaṃ mahat pṛthivyā adhy udbhṛtam | tad āsrāvasya bheṣajaṃ tad u rogam anīnaśat

This great wound-healer has been dug up out of the earth: that is the remedy for the flux, that has made the disease vanish.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

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Mighty is this wound-healing balm: from out the earth was it produced. This is the cure for morbid flow, this driveth malady away.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 2 3.6

शं नो भवन्त्व् अप ओषधयः शिवाः । इन्द्रस्य वज्रो अप हन्तु रक्षस आराद् विसृष्टा इषवः पतन्तु रक्षसाम्

śaṃ no bhavantv apa oṣadhayaḥ śivāḥ | indrasya vajro apa hantu rakṣasa ārād visṛṣṭā iṣavaḥ patantu rakṣasām

May the waters be a blessing to us, the plants kindly. Let Indra's bolt smite away the demons; let the arrows shot off fall far away from the demons.

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

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Bless us the Waters! be the Plants auspicious! May Indra's thunderbolt drive off the demons. Far from us fall the shafts they shoot against us!

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)