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Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 6 — Chapter 142

AV 6 142.1

उच् छ्रयस्व बहुर् भव स्वेन महसा यव । मृणीहि विश्वा पात्राणि मा त्वा दिव्याशनिर् वधीत्

uc chrayasva bahur bhava svena mahasā yava | mṛṇīhi viśvā pātrāṇi mā tvā divyāśanir vadhīt

Rise up, become abundant by your own greatness, O barley; burst all the vessels; let the lightning from heaven not slay you.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Spring high, O Barley, and become much through thine own magnificence: Burst all the vessels; let the bolt from heaven forbear to strike thee down.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 6 142.2

आशृण्वन्तं यवं देवं यत्र त्वाछावदामसि । तद् उच् छ्रयस्व द्यौर् इव समुद्र इवैध्य् अक्षितः

āśṛṇvantaṃ yavaṃ devaṃ yatra tvāchāvadāmasi | tad uc chrayasva dyaur iva samudra ivaidhy akṣitaḥ

(You are) the barley, the god, who listens, when we call to you here: so rise up like the sky, be inexhaustible like the sea.

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

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

As we invite and call to thee, Barley, a God who heareth us, Raise thyself up like heaven on high and be exhaustless as the sea.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 6 142.3

अक्षितास् त उपसदो ऽक्षिताः सन्तु राशयः । पृणन्तो अक्षिताः सन्त्व् अत्तारः सन्त्व् अक्षिताः

akṣitās ta upasado 'kṣitāḥ santu rāśayaḥ | pṛṇanto akṣitāḥ santv attāraḥ santv akṣitāḥ

Undiminished be your accumulations, undiminished be the heaps; undiminished be those who fill (them up), undiminished be the eaters.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Exhaustless let thine out-turns be, exhaustless be thy gathered heaps, Exhaustless be thy givers, and exhaustless those who eat of thee.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)