Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 2 — Chapter 5

AV 2 5.1

इन्द्र जुषस्व प्र वहा याहि शूर हरिभ्याम् । पिबा सुतस्य मतेर् इह मधोश् चकानश् चारुर् मदाय

indra juṣasva pra vahā yāhi śūra haribhyām | pibā sutasya mater iha madhoś cakānaś cārur madāya

Indra, take pleasure (in it); drive forward, come, hero, with your two bays. Drink here of the pressed sweet drink of (my) devising, eager, lovely, for exhilaration.

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

AV 2 5.2

इन्द्र जठरं नव्यो न पृणस्व मधोर् दिवो न । अस्य सुतस्य स्वर् णोप त्वा मदाः सुवाचो अगुः

indra jaṭharaṃ navyo na pṛṇasva madhor divo na | asya sutasya svar ṇopa tvā madāḥ suvāco aguḥ

Indra, fill your belly anew, as with the sweetness of heaven; the exhilarations of this pressed drink, well-speaking, have come to you like sunlight.

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

AV 2 5.3

इन्द्रस् तुराषाण् मित्रो वृत्रं यो जघान यतीर् न । बिभेद वलं भृगुर् न ससहे शत्रून् मदे सोमस्य

indras turāṣāṇ mitro vṛtraṃ yo jaghāna yatīr na | bibheda valaṃ bhṛgur na sasahe śatrūn made somasya

Indra the swift-conquering, like Mitra, who slew Vṛtra as (one slays) advancing (foes); he split Vala like Bhṛgu, he overcame his enemies in the exhilaration of soma.

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

AV 2 5.4

आ त्वा विशन्तु सुतास इन्द्र पृणस्व कुक्षी विड्ढि शक्र धियेह्य् आ नः । श्रुधी हवं गिरो मे जुषस्वेन्द्र स्वयुग्भिर् मत्स्वेह महे रणाय

ā tvā viśantu sutāsa indra pṛṇasva kukṣī viḍḍhi śakra dhiyehy ā naḥ | śrudhī havaṃ giro me juṣasvendra svayugbhir matsveha mahe raṇāya

Let the pressed drinks enter into you, Indra; fill both flanks; heed us, mighty one, come to us with (our) thought. Hear my call, delight in my songs, Indra; with your own team be exhilarated here for the great joy.

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

AV 2 5.5

इन्द्रस्य नु प्र वोचं वीर्याणि यानि चकार प्रथमानि वज्री । अहन्न् अहिम् अनु अपस् ततर्द प्र वक्षणा अभिनत् पर्वतानाम्

indrasya nu pra vocaṃ vīryāṇi yāni cakāra prathamāni vajrī | ahann ahim anu apas tatarda pra vakṣaṇā abhinat parvatānām

Now I will proclaim the heroic deeds of Indra, those first ones which the bearer of the bolt performed: he slew the serpent, he bored through to the waters, he split open the bellies of the mountains.

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AV 2 5.6

अहन्न् अहिं पर्वते शिश्रियाणं त्वष्टास्मै वज्रं स्वर्यं ततक्ष । वाश्रा इव धेनवः स्यन्दमाना अञ्जः समुद्रम् अव जग्मुर् आपः

ahann ahiṃ parvate śiśriyāṇaṃ tvaṣṭāsmai vajraṃ svaryaṃ tatakṣa | vāśrā iva dhenavaḥ syandamānā añjaḥ samudram ava jagmur āpaḥ

He slew the serpent that lay upon the mountain; Tvaṣṭṛ had fashioned for him the resounding bolt. Like bellowing milch-cows, streaming, the waters went straight down to the sea.

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AV 2 5.7

वृषायमाणो अवृणीत सोमं त्रिकद्रुकेषु अपिबत् सुतस्य । आ सायकं मघवादत्त वज्रम् अहन्न् एनं प्रथमजाम् अहीनाम्

vṛṣāyamāṇo avṛṇīta somaṃ trikadrukeṣu apibat sutasya | ā sāyakaṃ maghavādatta vajram ahann enaṃ prathamajām ahīnām

Playing the bull, he chose the soma; in the Trikadrukas he drank of the pressed drink. The bounteous one took up the bolt as his missile; he slew this firstborn of the serpents.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition