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Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 6 — Chapter 116

AV 6 116.1

यद् यामं चक्रुर् निखनन्तो अग्रे कार्षीवणा अन्नविदो न विद्यया । वैवस्वते राजनि तज् जुहोम्य् अथ यज्ञियं मधुमद् अस्तु नो ऽन्नम्

yad yāmaṃ cakrur nikhananto agre kārṣīvaṇā annavido na vidyayā | vaivasvate rājani taj juhomy atha yajñiyaṃ madhumad astu no 'nnam

The furrow-track which the ploughmen made, digging at the outset, knowers of food, (yet) not by knowledge — that I offer into (the fire) for king Vaivasvata; and let our food be fit for sacrifice and full of honey.

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

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

The wealth which husbandmen aforetime, digging, like men who find their food with knowledge, buried, This to the King, Vivasvān's son, I offer, Sweet be our food and fit for sacrificing!

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 6 116.2

वैवस्वतः कृणवद् भागधेयं मधुभागो मधुना सं सृजाति । मातुर् यद् एन इषितं न आगन् यद् वा पिता ऽपराद्धो जिहीदे

vaivasvataḥ kṛṇavad bhāgadheyaṃ madhubhāgo madhunā saṃ sṛjāti | mātur yad ena iṣitaṃ na āgan yad vā pitā 'parāddho jihīde

Let Vaivasvata make (our) share; let him whose share is honey mingle (it) with honey — whatever guilt, sent from the mother, has come upon us, or whereby the father, wronged, has grown angry.

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

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

May he, Vaivasvata, prepare our portion; May he whose share is mead with mead besprinkle. Our sin in hasty mood against our mother, or guilt whereby a sire is wronged and angered.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 6 116.3

यदीदं मातुर् यदि पितुर् नः परि भ्रातुः पुत्राच् चेतस एन आगन् । यावन्तो अस्मान् पितरः सचन्ते तेषां सर्वेषां शिवो अस्तु मन्युः

yadīdaṃ mātur yadi pitur naḥ pari bhrātuḥ putrāc cetasa ena āgan | yāvanto asmān pitaraḥ sacante teṣāṃ sarveṣāṃ śivo astu manyuḥ

If this guilt has come upon us from the mother, if from the father, from the brother, from the son, from the mind — as many fathers as attend us, may the wrath of all of them be kindly.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Whether this sin into our heart hath entered regarding mother, father, son or brother, Auspicious be to us the zeal and spirit of all the fathers who are here among us.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)