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Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 20 — Chapter 82

AV 20 82.1

यद् इन्द्र यावतस् त्वम् एतावद् अहम् ईशीय । स्तोतारम् इद् दिधिषेय रदावसो न पापत्वाय रासीय

yad indra yāvatas tvam etāvad aham īśīya | stotāram id didhiṣeya radāvaso na pāpatvāya rāsīya

If, Indra, I had command over as much as you, I would indeed hold fast to my praiser, O granter of wealth; I would not hand him over to wretchedness.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

If I, O Indra, were the lord of riches ample as thine own, I should support the singer, God who scatterest wealth! and! not abandon him to woe.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 20 82.2

शिक्षेयम् इन् महयते दिवेदिवे राय आ कुहचिद्विदे । नहि त्वद् अन्यन् मघवन् न आप्यं वस्यो अस्ति पिता चन

śikṣeyam in mahayate divedive rāya ā kuhacidvide | nahi tvad anyan maghavan na āpyaṃ vasyo asti pitā cana

Day by day I would bestow upon him who magnifies (me), riches upon him who finds them anywhere; for there is no kinship of ours better than you, Maghavan, not even a father.

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

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Each day would I enrich the man who sang my praise, in what- soever place he were. No kinship is there better, Maghavan, than thine: a father even) is no more.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)