Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 4 — Chapter 2

AV 4 2.1

य आत्मदा बलदा यस्य विश्व उपासते प्रशिषं यस्य देवाः । यो ऽस्येशे द्विपदो यश् चतुष्पदः कस्मै देवाय हविषा विधेम

ya ātmadā baladā yasya viśva upāsate praśiṣaṃ yasya devāḥ | yo 'syeśe dvipado yaś catuṣpadaḥ kasmai devāya haviṣā vidhema

Who is the giver of self, the giver of strength, whose command all attend upon, whose the gods (attend); who is lord of this two-footed and of the four-footed — to which god shall we do worship with oblation?

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 4 2.2

यः प्राणतो निमिषतो महित्वैको राजा जगतो बभूव । यस्य छायामृतं यस्य मृत्युः कस्मै देवाय हविषा विधेम

yaḥ prāṇato nimiṣato mahitvaiko rājā jagato babhūva | yasya chāyāmṛtaṃ yasya mṛtyuḥ kasmai devāya haviṣā vidhema

Who by his greatness became the one king of the breathing and blinking world; whose shadow is immortality, whose is death — to which god shall we do worship with oblation?

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 4 2.3

यं क्रन्दसी अवतश् चस्कभाने भियसाने रोदसी अह्वयेथाम् । यस्यासौ पन्था रजसो विमानः कस्मै देवाय हविषा विधेम

yaṃ krandasī avataś caskabhāne bhiyasāne rodasī ahvayethām | yasyāsau panthā rajaso vimānaḥ kasmai devāya haviṣā vidhema

Whom the two crying ones aid, whom the two world-halves, propped apart and afraid, called upon; whose is yonder path, the measuring-out of the (mid-)space — to which god shall we do worship with oblation?

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

AV 4 2.4

यस्य द्यौर् उर्वी पृथिवी च मही यस्याद उर्व् अन्तरिक्षम् । यस्यासौ सूरो विततो महित्वा कस्मै देवाय हविषा विधेम

yasya dyaur urvī pṛthivī ca mahī yasyāda urv antarikṣam | yasyāsau sūro vitato mahitvā kasmai devāya haviṣā vidhema

Whose is the wide sky and the great earth, whose is yonder broad midspace; whose is yonder sun stretched out by greatness — to which god shall we do worship with oblation?

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 4 2.5

यस्य विश्वे हिमवन्तो महित्वा समुद्रे यस्य रसाम् इद् आहुः । इमाश् च प्रदिशो यस्य बाहू कस्मै देवाय हविषा विधेम

yasya viśve himavanto mahitvā samudre yasya rasām id āhuḥ | imāś ca pradiśo yasya bāhū kasmai devāya haviṣā vidhema

Whose are all the snowy (mountains) by greatness, whose, they say, is Rasā in the ocean; and whose two arms are these directions — to which god shall we do worship with oblation?

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 4 2.6

आपो अग्रे विश्वम् आवन् गर्भं दधाना अमृता ऋतज्ञाः । यासु देवीष्व् अधि देव आसीत् कस्मै देवाय हविषा विधेम

āpo agre viśvam āvan garbhaṃ dadhānā amṛtā ṛtajñāḥ | yāsu devīṣv adhi deva āsīt kasmai devāya haviṣā vidhema

In the beginning the waters favoured the All, bearing the embryo, immortal, knowing the ṛta; upon which goddesses the god was — to which god shall we do worship with oblation?

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

AV 4 2.7

हिरण्यगर्भः सम् अवर्तताग्रे भूतस्य जातः पतिर् एक आसीत् । स दाधार पृथिवीम् उत द्यां कस्मै देवाय हविषा विधेम

hiraṇyagarbhaḥ sam avartatāgre bhūtasya jātaḥ patir eka āsīt | sa dādhāra pṛthivīm uta dyāṃ kasmai devāya haviṣā vidhema

Hiraṇyagarbha (the golden germ) arose in the beginning; being born, he was the one lord of what exists. He upheld the earth and also the sky — to which god shall we do worship with oblation?

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 4 2.8

आपो वत्सं जनयन्तीर् गर्भम् अग्रे सम् ऐरयन् । तस्योत जायमानस्योल्ब आसीद् धिरण्ययः कस्मै देवाय हविषा विधेम

āpo vatsaṃ janayantīr garbham agre sam airayan | tasyota jāyamānasyolba āsīd dhiraṇyayaḥ kasmai devāya haviṣā vidhema

The waters, generating the calf, in the beginning stirred up the embryo; and of him, as he was being born, the membrane was golden — to which god shall we do worship with oblation?

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition