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Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 6 — Chapter 2

AV 6 2.1

इन्द्राय सोमम् ऋत्विजः सुनोता च धावत । स्तोतुर् यो वचः शृणवद् धवं च मे

indrāya somam ṛtvijaḥ sunotā ca dhāvata | stotur yo vacaḥ śṛṇavad dhavaṃ ca me

For Indra press the soma, O ṛtvijas, and run (to purify it) — (Indra) who will hear the praiser's word and my call.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

For Indra, ministering priests! run ye and press the Soma juice, That he may hear his praiser's word, and this my call.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 6 2.2

आ यं विशन्तीन्दवो वयो न वृक्षम् अन्धसः । विरप्शिन् वि मृधो जहि रक्षस्विनीः

ā yaṃ viśantīndavo vayo na vṛkṣam andhasaḥ | virapśin vi mṛdho jahi rakṣasvinīḥ

(He) whom the drops of the juice enter as birds a tree — O exuberant one, smite apart the hostile hosts that are possessed by rakṣases.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Thou into whom the drops find way as sap pours life into a tree, Drive off in thine abundant might our demon foes.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 6 2.3

सुनोता सोमपाव्ने सोमम् इन्द्राय वज्रिणे । युवा जेतेशानः स पुरुष्टुतः

sunotā somapāvne somam indrāya vajriṇe | yuvā jeteśānaḥ sa puruṣṭutaḥ

Press the soma for the soma-drinker, for Indra the vajra-bearer; he is the youth, the conqueror, the master, the much-praised one.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

For Indra, thunder-armed, who drinks the Soma press the Soma out: He, youthful, conqueror, and Lord is praised by all.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)