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Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 6 — Chapter 18

AV 6 18.1

ईर्ष्याया ध्राजिं प्रथमां प्रथमस्या उतापराम् । अग्निं हृदय्यं शोकं तं ते निर् वापयामसि

īrṣyāyā dhrājiṃ prathamāṃ prathamasyā utāparām | agniṃ hṛdayyaṃ śokaṃ taṃ te nir vāpayāmasi

The first onrush of jealousy, and the one that comes after the first — the fire, the grief that is in the heart: that we quench for you.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

The first approach of Jealousy, and that which followeth the first, The pain, the fire that burns within thy heart we quench and drive away.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 6 18.2

यथा भूमिर् मृतमना मृतान् मृतमनस्तरा । यथोत मम्रुषो मन एवेर्ष्योर् मृतं मनः

yathā bhūmir mṛtamanā mṛtān mṛtamanastarā | yathota mamruṣo mana everṣyor mṛtaṃ manaḥ

As the earth is dead of mind, more dead of mind than the dead, and as the mind of one who has died is, so let the mind of the jealous one be dead.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Even as the earth is dead to sense, yea, more unconscious than the dead, Even as a corpse's spirit is the spirit of the jealous man.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 6 18.3

अदो यत् ते हृदि श्रितं मनस्कं पतयिष्णुकम् । ततस् त ईर्ष्यां मुञ्चामि निर् ऊष्माणं दृतेर् इव

ado yat te hṛdi śritaṃ manaskaṃ patayiṣṇukam | tatas ta īrṣyāṃ muñcāmi nir ūṣmāṇaṃ dṛter iva

That fluttering bit of mind of yours that is lodged in your heart — from there I release your jealousy, like steam out of a skin-bag.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

The thought that harbours in thy heart, the fluttering doubt that dwells therein. Yea, all thy jealousy, like heat born of the dance, I banish thence.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)