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Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 6 — Chapter 102

AV 6 102.1

यथायं वाहो अश्विना समैति सं च वर्तते । एवा माम् अभि ते मनः समैतु सं च वर्तताम्

yathāyaṃ vāho aśvinā samaiti saṃ ca vartate | evā mām abhi te manaḥ samaitu saṃ ca vartatām

As this draught-animal, O Aśvins, comes together and turns together (with the yoke), so let your mind come together toward me and turn together.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Even as this ox, O Asvins, steps and turns together with his mate, So let thy fancy turn itself, come nearer, and unite with me.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 6 102.2

आहं खिदामि ते मनो राजाश्वः पृष्ट्याम् इव । रेष्मछिन्नम् यथा तृणं मयि ते वेष्टतां मनः

āhaṃ khidāmi te mano rājāśvaḥ pṛṣṭyām iva | reṣmachinnam yathā tṛṇaṃ mayi te veṣṭatāṃ manaḥ

I drag down your mind as a (rider) does a royal horse by the side-rein; like grass cut off by the whirlwind, let your mind wind itself about me.

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

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

I, as the shaft-horse draws the mare beside him, draw thee to myself. Like grass that storm and wind have rent, so be thy mind at- tached to me!

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 6 102.3

आञ्जनस्य मदुघस्य कुष्ठस्य नलदस्य च । तुरो भगस्य हस्ताभ्याम् अनुरोधनम् उद् भरे

āñjanasya madughasya kuṣṭhasya naladasya ca | turo bhagasya hastābhyām anurodhanam ud bhare

Of ointment, of madugha, of kuṣṭha and of nalada — with the two hands of speeding Bhaga I bring up the means of making (her) compliant.

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

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Swiftly from Bhaga's hands I bear away a love-compelling charm Of ointment and of sugar-cane, of Spikenard and the Kushtha plant.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)