Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 20 — Chapter 127

AV 20 127.1

इदं जना उप श्रुत नराशंस स्तविष्यते । षष्टिं सहस्रा नवतिं च कौरम आ रुशमेषु दद्महे

idaṃ janā upa śruta narāśaṃsa staviṣyate | ṣaṣṭiṃ sahasrā navatiṃ ca kaurama ā ruśameṣu dadmahe

Hear this, O people: Narāśaṃsa will be praised. Sixty thousand and ninety we receive from Kaurama among the Ruśamas.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 20 127.2

उष्ट्रा यस्य प्रवाहणो वधूमन्तो द्विर्दश । वर्ष्मा रथस्य नि जिहीडते दिव ईषमाणा उपस्पृशः

uṣṭrā yasya pravāhaṇo vadhūmanto dvirdaśa | varṣmā rathasya ni jihīḍate diva īṣamāṇā upaspṛśaḥ

Whose draught-animals are camels, twice ten, with their mares; the top of his chariot bends down, as they press on, touching the sky.

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

AV 20 127.3

एष इषाय मामहे शतं निष्कान् दश स्रजः । त्रीणि शतान्यर्वतां सहस्रा दश गोनाम्

eṣa iṣāya māmahe śataṃ niṣkān daśa srajaḥ | trīṇi śatānyarvatāṃ sahasrā daśa gonām

He bestowed generously, for food, a hundred gold ornaments, ten wreaths, three hundred steeds, ten thousand cattle.

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

AV 20 127.4

वच्यस्व रेभ वच्यस्व वृक्षे न पक्वे शकुनः । नष्टे जिह्वा चर्चरीति क्षुरो न भुरिजोरिव

vacyasva rebha vacyasva vṛkṣe na pakve śakunaḥ | naṣṭe jihvā carcarīti kṣuro na bhurijoriva

Sing out, chanter, sing out, like a bird on a ripe(-fruited) tree; your tongue chatters swiftly in the (?) hollow, like a razor in the leather-worker's (two) hands.

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

AV 20 127.5

प्र रेभासो मनीषा वृषा गाव इवेरते । अमोतपुत्रका एषाममोत गा इवासते

pra rebhāso manīṣā vṛṣā gāva iverate | amotaputrakā eṣāmamota gā ivāsate

The chanters press forward with inspired thought, like bulls, like cattle; their little sons (are) at home, and at home they sit like cows.

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

AV 20 127.6

प्र रेभ धीम् भरस्व गोविदं वसुविदम् । देवत्रेमां वाचं स्रीणीहीषुर्नावीरस्तारम्

pra rebha dhīm bharasva govidaṃ vasuvidam | devatremāṃ vācaṃ srīṇīhīṣurnāvīrastāram

Chanter, bring forward the hymn that finds cattle, that finds wealth; direct this speech toward the gods, like an archer (aiming) an arrow at the mark.

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

AV 20 127.7

राज्ञो विश्वजनीनस्य यो देवोमर्त्याꣳ अति । वैश्वानरस्य सुष्टुतिमा सुनोता परिक्षितः

rājño viśvajanīnasya yo devomartyāṁ ati | vaiśvānarasya suṣṭutimā sunotā parikṣitaḥ

Press out the fine praise of the king belonging to all people, of Vaiśvānara Parikṣit, who is a god beyond mortals.

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

AV 20 127.8

परिछिन्नः क्षेमम् अकरोत् तम आसनमाचरन् । कुलायन् कृण्वन् कौरव्यः पतिर् वदति जायया

parichinnaḥ kṣemam akarot tama āsanamācaran | kulāyan kṛṇvan kauravyaḥ patir vadati jāyayā

Parikṣit has made security (for us), entering (his) seat at the coming of darkness; the Kauravya, making his nest, the husband speaks with his wife.

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

AV 20 127.9

कतरत् त आ हराणि दधि मन्थां परि श्रुतम् । जायाः पतिं वि पृछति राष्ट्रे राज्ञः परिक्षितः

katarat ta ā harāṇi dadhi manthāṃ pari śrutam | jāyāḥ patiṃ vi pṛchati rāṣṭre rājñaḥ parikṣitaḥ

"Which of the two shall I bring you — curds, or the stirred drink, or the fermented brew?" The wife asks her husband, in the realm of king Parikṣit.

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

AV 20 127.10

अभीवस्वः प्र जिहीते यवः पक्वः पथो बिलम् । जनः स भद्रम् एधति राष्ट्रे राज्ञः परिक्षितः

abhīvasvaḥ pra jihīte yavaḥ pakvaḥ patho bilam | janaḥ sa bhadram edhati rāṣṭre rājñaḥ parikṣitaḥ

The (?) covering rises up; the barley is ripe; the opening of the road (is clear); that people prospers happily, in the realm of king Parikṣit.

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

AV 20 127.11

इन्द्रः कारुम् अबूबुधद् उत्तिष्ठ वि चरा जनम् । ममेदुग्रस्य चर्कृधि सर्व इत् ते पृणादरिः

indraḥ kārum abūbudhad uttiṣṭha vi carā janam | mamedugrasya carkṛdhi sarva it te pṛṇādariḥ

Indra has awakened the bard: "Rise up, go about among the people; of me, the mighty one, make repeated mention — every stranger will reward you."

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

AV 20 127.12

इह गावः प्र जायध्वम् इहाश्वा इह पूरुषाः । इहो सहस्रदक्षिणोपि पूषा नि षीदति

iha gāvaḥ pra jāyadhvam ihāśvā iha pūruṣāḥ | iho sahasradakṣiṇopi pūṣā ni ṣīdati

Here, cattle, be born; here horses, here men; and here too Pūṣan, of the thousandfold gift, sits down.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 20 127.13

नेमा इन्द्र गावो रिषन् मो आसां गोप रीरिषत् । मासाम् अमित्रयुर्जन इन्द्र मा स्तेन ईशत

nemā indra gāvo riṣan mo āsāṃ gopa rīriṣat | māsām amitrayurjana indra mā stena īśata

Let not these cows come to harm, Indra, nor let their herdsman be harmed; let no hostile-minded man master them, Indra, no thief.

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AV 20 127.14

उप नो न रमसि सूक्तेन वचसा वयं भद्रेण वचसा वयम् । वनाद् अधिध्वनो गिरो न रिष्येम कदा चन

upa no na ramasi sūktena vacasā vayaṃ bhadreṇa vacasā vayam | vanād adhidhvano giro na riṣyema kadā cana

You do not cease (coming) to us — we with well-spoken utterance, we with auspicious utterance; (may) our songs (be) as from the forest, from the path — may we never come to harm.

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