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Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 6 — Chapter 117

AV 6 117.1

अपमित्यम् अप्रतीत्तं यद् अस्मि यमस्य येन बलिना चरामि । इदं तद् अग्ने अनृणो भवामि त्वं पाशान् विचृतं वेत्थ सर्वान्

apamityam apratīttaṃ yad asmi yamasya yena balinā carāmi | idaṃ tad agne anṛṇo bhavāmi tvaṃ pāśān vicṛtaṃ vettha sarvān

Whatever I am in the way of a thing borrowed and not repaid, that tribute of Yama with which I go about — of this here, Agni, I become free of debt; thou knowest how to unloose all the fetters.

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

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

That which I eat, a debt which still is owing, the tribute due to Yama, which supports me, Thereby may I be free from debt, O Agni. Thou knowest how to rend all bonds asunder.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 6 117.2

इहैव सन्तः प्रति दद्म एनज् जीवा जीवेभ्यो नि हराम एनत् । अपमित्य धान्यं यज् जघसाहम् इदं तद् अग्ने अनृणो भवामि

ihaiva santaḥ prati dadma enaj jīvā jīvebhyo ni harāma enat | apamitya dhānyaṃ yaj jaghasāham idaṃ tad agne anṛṇo bhavāmi

Being here indeed, we give it back; living, we deliver it to the living. The grain that I have eaten, having borrowed it — of this here, Agni, I become free of debt.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Still dwelling here we give again this present; we send it forth, the living from the living. Throwing away the grain whence I have eaten, thereby shall I be free from debt, O Agni.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 6 117.3

अनृणा अस्मिन्न् अनृणाः परस्मिन् तृतीये लोके अनृणाः स्याम । ये देवयानाः पितृयाणश् च लोकाः सर्वान् पथो अनृणा आ क्षियेम

anṛṇā asminn anṛṇāḥ parasmin tṛtīye loke anṛṇāḥ syāma | ye devayānāḥ pitṛyāṇaś ca lokāḥ sarvān patho anṛṇā ā kṣiyema

Free of debt in this (world), free of debt in the further one, in the third world may we be free of debt. Whatever worlds are the paths of the gods and the paths of the fathers, may we dwell free of debt along all the roads.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

May we be free in this world and that yonder, in the third world may we be unindebted. May we, debt-free, abide in all the pathways, in all the worlds which Gods and Fathers visit.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)