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Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 6 — Chapter 118

AV 6 118.1

यद् धस्ताभ्यां चकृम किल्बिषाण्य् अक्षाणां गत्नुम् उपलिप्समानाः । उग्रंपश्ये उग्रजितौ तद् अद्याप्सरसाव् अनु दत्ताम् ऋणं नः

yad dhastābhyāṃ cakṛma kilbiṣāṇy akṣāṇāṃ gatnum upalipsamānāḥ | ugraṃpaśye ugrajitau tad adyāpsarasāv anu dattām ṛṇaṃ naḥ

The offences we have done with our two hands, grasping after the run of the dice — let the two Apsarases, Ugraṃpaśyā and Ugrajit, remit that debt of ours today.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

If we have sinned with both our hands, desiring to take the host of dice for our possession, May both Apsarases to-day forgive us that debt, the fiercely- conquering, fiercely-looking.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 6 118.2

उग्रंपश्ये राष्ट्रभृत् किल्बिषाणि यद् अक्षवृत्तम् अनु दत्तम् न एतत् । ऋणान् नो न ऋणम् एर्त्समानो यमस्य लोके अधिरज्जुर् आयत्

ugraṃpaśye rāṣṭrabhṛt kilbiṣāṇi yad akṣavṛttam anu dattam na etat | ṛṇān no na ṛṇam ertsamāno yamasya loke adhirajjur āyat

O Ugraṃpaśyā, upholder of the kingdom, remit us these offences, whatever has come of the turning of the dice; let him who seeks to obtain from us a debt that is no debt go with the rope upon him into Yama's world.

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

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Stern viewers of their sins who rule the people, forgive us what hash happened as we gambled. Not urging us to pay the debt we owed him, he with a cord hath gone to Yama's kingdom.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 6 118.3

यस्मा ऋणं यस्य जायाम् उपैमि यं याचमानो अभ्यैमि देवाः । ते वाचं वादिषुर् मोत्तरां मद् देवपत्नी अप्सरसाव् अधीतम्

yasmā ṛṇaṃ yasya jāyām upaimi yaṃ yācamāno abhyaimi devāḥ | te vācaṃ vādiṣur mottarāṃ mad devapatnī apsarasāv adhītam

He to whom I owe a debt, whose wife I approach, he to whom I go begging, O gods — let them not speak a word higher than mine; ye two Apsarases, wives of the gods, have taken note (of this).

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

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

My creditor, the man whose wife I visit, he, Gods! whom I approach with supplication, Let not these men dominate me in speaking. Mind this, ye two Apsarases, Gods' Consorts!

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)