Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 6 — Chapter 133

AV 6 133.1

य इमां देवो मेखलाम् आबबन्ध यः संननाह य उ नो युयोज । यस्य देवस्य प्रशिषा चरामः स पारम् इछात् स उ नो वि मुञ्चात्

ya imāṃ devo mekhalām ābabandha yaḥ saṃnanāha ya u no yuyoja | yasya devasya praśiṣā carāmaḥ sa pāram ichāt sa u no vi muñcāt

The god who bound on this girdle, who fastened it, and who yoked us — by whose command, that god's, we move: let him seek the far shore, and let him loose us.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 6 133.2

आहुतास्य् अभिहुत ऋषीणाम् अस्य् आयुधम् । पूर्वा व्रतस्य प्राश्नती वीरघ्नी भव मेखले

āhutāsy abhihuta ṛṣīṇām asy āyudham | pūrvā vratasya prāśnatī vīraghnī bhava mekhale

You are the offering, you are the one offered upon; you are the weapon of the ṛṣis. As the first to partake of the vow, be a slayer of (our enemies') men, O girdle.

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

AV 6 133.3

मृत्योर् अहं ब्रह्मचारी यद् अस्मि निर्याचन् भूतात् पुरुषं यमाय । तम् अहं ब्रह्मणा तपसा श्रमेणानयैनं मेखलया सिनामि

mṛtyor ahaṃ brahmacārī yad asmi niryācan bhūtāt puruṣaṃ yamāya | tam ahaṃ brahmaṇā tapasā śrameṇānayainaṃ mekhalayā sināmi

Since I am a brahmacārin of Death, begging off from existence a man for Yama — him I bind here with this girdle by brahman, by tapas, by toil.

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

AV 6 133.4

श्रद्धाया दुहिता तपसो ऽधि जाता स्वसा ऋषीणां भूतकृतां बभूव । सा नो मेखले मतिम् आ धेहि मेधाम् अथो नो धेहि तप इन्द्रियं च

śraddhāyā duhitā tapaso 'dhi jātā svasā ṛṣīṇāṃ bhūtakṛtāṃ babhūva | sā no mekhale matim ā dhehi medhām atho no dhehi tapa indriyaṃ ca

She is the daughter of Faith, born from tapas, she has become the sister of the ṛṣis who made the beings. Therefore, O girdle, set in us thought and insight, and set in us tapas and vigour.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 6 133.5

यां त्वा पूर्वे भूतकृत ऋषयः परिबेधिरे । सा त्वं परि ष्वजस्व मां दीर्घायुत्वाय मेखले

yāṃ tvā pūrve bhūtakṛta ṛṣayaḥ paribedhire | sā tvaṃ pari ṣvajasva māṃ dīrghāyutvāya mekhale

You whom the former ṛṣis, the makers of beings, bound about themselves — you, O girdle, embrace me for length of life.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition