Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 20 — Chapter 116
AV 20 116.1
मा भूम निष्ट्या इवेन्द्र त्वद् अरणा इव । वनानि नि प्रजहितान्य् अद्रिवो दुरोषासो अमन्महि
mā bhūma niṣṭyā ivendra tvad araṇā iva | vanāni ni prajahitāny adrivo duroṣāso amanmahi
Let us not be, Indra, like outsiders, nor like strangers to you; like trees cast down, O wielder of the stone, hard to burn, we have bethought ourselves.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith
Never may we be cast aside and strangers, as it were to thee. We, Thunder-wielding Indra, count ourselves as trees rejected and unfit to burn.
— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)
AV 20 116.2
अमन्महीद् अनाशवो ऽनुग्रासश् च वृत्रहन् । सुकृत् सु ते महता शूर राधसानु स्तोमं मुदीमहि
amanmahīd anāśavo 'nugrāsaś ca vṛtrahan | sukṛt su te mahatā śūra rādhasānu stomaṃ mudīmahi
We have indeed bethought ourselves, (though) not swift and not devouring, O slayer of Vṛtra; doing good, O hero, by your great bounty may we rejoice along with the song of praise.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith
O Vritra slayer, we were thought slow and unready for the fray: Yet once in thy great bounty may we have delight, O Hero, after praising thee.
— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)