Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 4 — Chapter 19

AV 4 19.1

उतो अस्य् अबन्धुकृद् उतो असि नु जामिकृत् । उतो कृत्याकृतः प्रजां नदम् इवा छिन्धि वार्षिकम्

uto asy abandhukṛd uto asi nu jāmikṛt | uto kṛtyākṛtaḥ prajāṃ nadam ivā chindhi vārṣikam

And you are a maker of non-kin, and you are indeed a maker of kin; and cut off the offspring of the spell-maker like a reed of the rainy season.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 4 19.2

ब्राह्मणेन पर्युक्तासि कण्वेन नार्षदेन । सेनेवैषि त्विषीमती न तत्र भयम् अस्ति यत्र प्राप्नोष्य् ओषधे

brāhmaṇena paryuktāsi kaṇvena nārṣadena | senevaiṣi tviṣīmatī na tatra bhayam asti yatra prāpnoṣy oṣadhe

You have been enclosed (in verse) by a brahman, by Kaṇva the son of Nṛṣad; you go like an army, full of flashing force; there is no fear there where you arrive, O plant.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 4 19.3

अग्रम् एष्य् ओषधीनां ज्योतिषेवाभिदीपयन् । उत त्रातासि पाकस्याथो हन्तासि रक्षसः

agram eṣy oṣadhīnāṃ jyotiṣevābhidīpayan | uta trātāsi pākasyātho hantāsi rakṣasaḥ

You go at the head of the plants, lighting up (all) as with light; and you are the protector of the simple man, and you are the slayer of the rakṣas.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 4 19.4

यद् अदो देवा असुरांस् त्वयाग्रे निरकुर्वत । ततस् त्वम् अध्य् ओषधे ऽपामार्गो अजायथाः

yad ado devā asurāṃs tvayāgre nirakurvata | tatas tvam adhy oṣadhe 'pāmārgo ajāyathāḥ

When yonder the gods, with you, first drove out the Asuras, from that (act), O plant, you were born as Apāmārga, 'the wiper-away'.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 4 19.5

विभिन्दती शतशाखा विभिन्दन् नाम ते पिता । प्रत्यग् वि भिन्धि त्वं तं यो अस्मां अभिदासति

vibhindatī śataśākhā vibhindan nāma te pitā | pratyag vi bhindhi tvaṃ taṃ yo asmāṃ abhidāsati

You are a splitter, hundred-branched; Vibhindan ('Splitter') is your father's name; do you split back him who treats us with hostility.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 4 19.6

असद् भूम्याः सम् अभवत् तद् याम् एति महद् व्यचः । तद् वै ततो विधूपायत् प्रत्यक् कर्तारम् ऋछतु

asad bhūmyāḥ sam abhavat tad yām eti mahad vyacaḥ | tad vai tato vidhūpāyat pratyak kartāram ṛchatu

The non-existent came to be out of the earth; it goes to that great expanse; let that, smoking away from there, go back upon the doer.

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

AV 4 19.7

प्रत्यङ् हि संबभूविथ प्रतीचीनफलस् त्वम् । सर्वान् मच् छपथाम् अधि वरीयो यावया वधम्

pratyaṅ hi saṃbabhūvitha pratīcīnaphalas tvam | sarvān mac chapathām adhi varīyo yāvayā vadham

For you have come into being facing backwards, you with backward-turned fruit; ward off from me all curses, ward off the deadly weapon far away.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 4 19.8

शतेन मा परि पाहि सहस्रेणाभि रक्षा मा । इन्द्रस् ते वीरुधां पत उग्र ओज्मानम् आ दधत्

śatena mā pari pāhi sahasreṇābhi rakṣā mā | indras te vīrudhāṃ pata ugra ojmānam ā dadhat

Guard me about with a hundred, protect me with a thousand! May Indra, O lord of plants, the mighty one, put strength into you.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition