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Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 6 — Chapter 139

AV 6 139.1

न्यस्तिका रुरोहिथ सुभगंकरणी मम । शतं तव प्रतानास् त्रयस्त्रिंशन् नितानाः । तया सहस्रपर्ण्या हृदयं शोषयामि ते

nyastikā rurohitha subhagaṃkaraṇī mama | śataṃ tava pratānās trayastriṃśan nitānāḥ | tayā sahasraparṇyā hṛdayaṃ śoṣayāmi te

Nyastikā, you have grown up, making me fortunate. A hundred are your outspread shoots, thirty-three your downward shoots. With you, the thousand-leafed one, I dry up your heart.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Thou hast grown up, a source of joy to bless me with pros- perity. A hundred are thy tendrils, three-and-thirty thy descending shoots. With this that bears a thousand leaves I dry thy heart and wither it.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 6 139.2

शुष्यतु मयि ते हृदयम् अथो शुष्यत्व् आस्यम् । अथो नि शुष्य मां कामेनाथो शुष्कास्या चर

śuṣyatu mayi te hṛdayam atho śuṣyatv āsyam | atho ni śuṣya māṃ kāmenātho śuṣkāsyā cara

Let your heart dry up for me, and let your mouth dry up too; and dry up with desire for me, and go about with a dry mouth.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Let thy heart wither for my love and let thy month be dry for me. Parch and dry up with longing, go with lips that love of me hath dried.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 6 139.3

संवननी समुष्पला बभ्रु कल्याणि सं नुद । अमूं च मां च सं नुद समानं हृदयं कृधि

saṃvananī samuṣpalā babhru kalyāṇi saṃ nuda | amūṃ ca māṃ ca saṃ nuda samānaṃ hṛdayaṃ kṛdhi

O charm-plant, samuṣpalā, brown one, auspicious one, push (us) together; push her and me together, make (our) heart one and the same.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Drive us together, tawny! fair! a go-between who wakens love. Drive us together, him and me, and give us both one heart and mind.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 6 139.4

यथोदकम् अपपुषो ऽपशुष्यत्य् आस्यम् । एवा नि शुष्य मां कामेनाथो शुष्कास्या चर

yathodakam apapuṣo 'paśuṣyaty āsyam | evā ni śuṣya māṃ kāmenātho śuṣkāsyā cara

As the mouth of one who has not drunk water dries up, so dry up (with longing) for me, and go about with a dry mouth.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Even as his mouth is parched who finds no water for his burn- ing thirst, So parch and burn with longing, go with lips that love of me hath dried.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 6 139.5

यथा नकुलो विछिद्य संदधात्य् अहिं पुनः । एवा कामस्य विछिन्नं सं धेहि वीर्यावति

yathā nakulo vichidya saṃdadhāty ahiṃ punaḥ | evā kāmasya vichinnaṃ saṃ dhehi vīryāvati

As the mongoose, having cut the snake apart, joins it together again, so join together what is severed of (my) desire, O you possessed of potency.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Even as the Mungoose bites and rends and then restores the wounded snake, So do thou, Mighty one, restore the fracture of our severed love.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)