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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)