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Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 20 — Chapter 26

AV 20 26.1

योगेयोगे तवस्तरं वाजेवाजे हवामहे । सखाय इन्द्रम् ऊतये

yogeyoge tavastaraṃ vājevāje havāmahe | sakhāya indram ūtaye

At every yoking we comrades call Indra, the stronger one, at every contest, for help.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

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In every need, in every fray we call, as friends, to succour us Indra the mightiest of all.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 20 26.2

आ घा गमद् यदि श्रवत् सहस्रिणीभिर् ऊतिभिः । वाजेभिर् उप नो हवम्

ā ghā gamad yadi śravat sahasriṇībhir ūtibhiḥ | vājebhir upa no havam

Let him come, if he hears, with thousandfold aids, with prizes, to our call.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

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If he will hear us let him come with succour of a thousand kinds, And all that strengthens, to our call.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 20 26.3

अनु प्रत्नस्यौकसो हुवे तुविप्रतिं नरम् । यं ते पूर्वं पिता हुवे

anu pratnasyaukaso huve tuvipratiṃ naram | yaṃ te pūrvaṃ pitā huve

In accordance with (his) ancient dwelling I call the man of powerful counter-force, whom your father called of old.

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

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I call him, mighty to resist, the Hero of our ancient home, Thee whom my sire invoked of old.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 20 26.4

युञ्जन्ति ब्रध्नम् अरुषं चरन्तं परि तस्थुषः । रोचन्ते रोचना दिवि

yuñjanti bradhnam aruṣaṃ carantaṃ pari tasthuṣaḥ | rocante rocanā divi

They yoke the ruddy, tawny one who moves around the stationary (things); the lights shine in heaven.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

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They who stand round him as he moves harness the bright, the ruddy steed: The lights are shining in the sky.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 20 26.5

युञ्जन्ति अस्य काम्या हरी विपक्षसा रथे । शोणा धृष्णू नृवाहसा

yuñjanti asya kāmyā harī vipakṣasā rathe | śoṇā dhṛṣṇū nṛvāhasā

They yoke his two dear bays to the chariot, the broad-flanked, the red, the bold, the man-bearing.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

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On both sides of the car they yoke the two bay coursers dear to him, Bold, tawny, bearers of the thief.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 20 26.6

केतुं कृण्वन्न् अकेतवे पेशो मर्या अपेशसे । सम् उषद्भिर् अजायथाः

ketuṃ kṛṇvann aketave peśo maryā apeśase | sam uṣadbhir ajāyathāḥ

Making a banner for what is bannerless, O young men, and form for what is formless, you were born together with the dawns.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

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Thou, making light where no light was, and form, O Men! where form was not, Wast born together with the Dawns.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)