Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 3 — Chapter 11

AV 3 11.1

मुञ्चामि त्वा हविषा जीवनाय कम् अज्ञातयक्ष्माद् उत राजयक्ष्मात् । ग्राहिर् जग्राह यद्य् एतद् एनं तस्या इन्द्राग्नी प्र मुमुक्तम् एनम्

muñcāmi tvā haviṣā jīvanāya kam ajñātayakṣmād uta rājayakṣmāt | grāhir jagrāha yady etad enaṃ tasyā indrāgnī pra mumuktam enam

I release thee by the oblation, for life indeed, from unknown consumption and from royal consumption; if the seizer has seized this one here, from her, O Indra and Agni, do ye two release him.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 3 11.2

यदि क्षितायुर् यदि वा परेतो यदि मृत्योर् अन्तिकं एव । तम् आ हरामि निरृतेर् उपस्थाद् अस्पार्शम् एनं शतशारदाय

yadi kṣitāyur yadi vā pareto yadi mṛtyor antikaṃ eva | tam ā harāmi nirṛter upasthād aspārśam enaṃ śataśāradāya

If his lifetime is spent, or if he has gone beyond, if he is at the very nearness of death, him I fetch back from the lap of Nirṛti; I have won him for a hundred autumns.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 3 11.3

सहस्राक्षेण शतवीर्येण शतायुषा हविषाहार्षम् एनम् । इन्द्रो यथैनं शरदो नयात्य् अति विश्वस्य दुरितस्य पारम्

sahasrākṣeṇa śatavīryeṇa śatāyuṣā haviṣāhārṣam enam | indro yathainaṃ śarado nayāty ati viśvasya duritasya pāram

With an oblation thousand-eyed, of a hundred powers, of a hundred lifetimes, I have fetched him; so that Indra may lead him through the autumns, across to the far shore of every difficulty.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 3 11.4

शतं जीव शरदो वर्धमानः शतं हेमन्तान् छतम् उ वसन्तान् । शतं ते इन्द्रो अग्निः सविता बृहस्पतिः शतायुषा हविषाहार्षम् एनम्

śataṃ jīva śarado vardhamānaḥ śataṃ hemantān chatam u vasantān | śataṃ te indro agniḥ savitā bṛhaspatiḥ śatāyuṣā haviṣāhārṣam enam

Live a hundred autumns, growing; a hundred winters and a hundred springs too; a hundred for thee (may) Indra, Agni, Savitṛ, Bṛhaspati (grant): with an oblation of a hundred lifetimes I have fetched him.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 3 11.5

प्र विशतं प्राणापानाव् अनड्वाहाव् इव व्रजम् । व्य् अन्ये यन्तु मृत्यवो यान् आहुर् इतरान् छतम्

pra viśataṃ prāṇāpānāv anaḍvāhāv iva vrajam | vy anye yantu mṛtyavo yān āhur itarān chatam

Enter in, O in-breath and out-breath, as two draft-oxen into a stall; let the other deaths go apart, the hundred others of which they speak.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 3 11.6

इहैव स्तं प्राणापानौ माप गातम् इतो युवम् । शरीरम् अस्याङ्गानि जरसे वहतं पुनः

ihaiva staṃ prāṇāpānau māpa gātam ito yuvam | śarīram asyāṅgāni jarase vahataṃ punaḥ

Stay here, O in-breath and out-breath, do not go away from here, you two; carry his body and his limbs again to old age.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 3 11.7

जरायै त्वा परि ददामि जरायै नि धुवामि त्वा । जरा त्वा भद्रा नेष्ट व्य् अन्ये यन्तु मृत्यवो यान् आहुर् इतरान् छतम्

jarāyai tvā pari dadāmi jarāyai ni dhuvāmi tvā | jarā tvā bhadrā neṣṭa vy anye yantu mṛtyavo yān āhur itarān chatam

To old age I entrust thee; to old age I settle thee down; may auspicious old age lead thee; let the other deaths go apart, the hundred others of which they speak.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 3 11.8

अभि त्वा जरिमाहित गाम् उक्षणम् इव रज्ज्वा । यस् त्वा मृत्युर् अभ्यधत्त जायमानं सुपाशया । तं ते सत्यस्य हस्ताभ्याम् उद् अमुञ्चद् बृहस्पतिः

abhi tvā jarimāhita gām ukṣaṇam iva rajjvā | yas tvā mṛtyur abhyadhatta jāyamānaṃ supāśayā | taṃ te satyasya hastābhyām ud amuñcad bṛhaspatiḥ

Old age has been laid upon thee, as a bull is (bound) with a rope, a cow; the death that bound thee with a good noose when thou wast being born—that, by the two hands of truth, Bṛhaspati has loosed for thee.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition