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Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 6 — Chapter 120

AV 6 120.1

यद् अन्तरिक्षं पृथिवीम् उत द्याम् यन् मातरं पितरं वा जिहिंसिम । अयं तस्माद् गार्हपत्यो नो अग्निर् उद् इन् नयाति सुकृतस्य लोकम्

yad antarikṣaṃ pṛthivīm uta dyām yan mātaraṃ pitaraṃ vā jihiṃsima | ayaṃ tasmād gārhapatyo no agnir ud in nayāti sukṛtasya lokam

If we have done injury to the midspace, the earth, or the heaven, or to mother or to father — may this our household Agni lead (us) up from that to the world of the well-doing.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

If we have injured Air, or Earth, or Heaven, if we have wronged our Mother or our Father, May Agni Gārhapatya here absolve us, and bear us up into the world of virtue.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 6 120.2

भूमिर् मातादितिर् नो जनित्रं भ्रातान्तरिक्षम् अभिशस्त्या नः । द्यौर् नः पिता पित्र्याच् छं भवाति जामिम् ऋत्वा माव पत्सि लोकात्

bhūmir mātāditir no janitraṃ bhrātāntarikṣam abhiśastyā naḥ | dyaur naḥ pitā pitryāc chaṃ bhavāti jāmim ṛtvā māva patsi lokāt

The earth is our mother, Aditi our birthplace, the midspace our brother — (keep us) from imprecation; heaven is our father — may there be weal from the paternal side; having reached (my) kin, may I not fall from (that) world.

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

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Earth is our Mother, Aditi our birth-place: our brother Air save us from imprecation! Dyaus, Father, save us, from the world of Fathers! My world not lost, may I approach my kindred.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 6 120.3

यत्रा सुहार्दः सुकृतो मदन्ति विहाय रोगं तन्वः स्वायाः । अश्लोना अङ्गैर् अह्रुताः स्वर्गे तत्र पश्येम पितरौ च पुत्रान्

yatrā suhārdaḥ sukṛto madanti vihāya rogaṃ tanvaḥ svāyāḥ | aślonā aṅgair ahrutāḥ svarge tatra paśyema pitarau ca putrān

Where the good-hearted, the doers of good rejoice, having left behind the disease of their own body, not lame in their limbs, not crooked, in heaven — there may we see both our parents and our sons.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

There where our virtuous friends, who left behind them their bodily infirmities, are happy, Free from distortion of the limbs and lameness, may we behold, in heaven, our sons and parents.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)