Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 6 — Chapter 26
AV 6 26.1
अव मा पाप्मन्त् सृज वशी सन् मृदयासि नः । आ मा भद्रस्य लोके पाप्मन् धेह्य् अविह्रुतम्
ava mā pāpmant sṛja vaśī san mṛdayāsi naḥ | ā mā bhadrasya loke pāpman dhehy avihrutam
Let me loose, O Evil; being in control, you will be merciful to us; set me, O Evil, unharmed in the world of what is good.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith
Let me go free, O Misery: do thou, the mighty, pity us. Set me uninjured in the world of happiness, O Misery.
— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)
AV 6 26.2
यो नः पाप्मन् न जहासि तम् उ त्वा जहिमो वयम् । पथाम् अनु व्यावर्तने ऽन्यं पाप्मानु पद्यताम्
yo naḥ pāpman na jahāsi tam u tvā jahimo vayam | pathām anu vyāvartane 'nyaṃ pāpmānu padyatām
You, O Evil, who do not leave us — you indeed we leave; at the turning-off along the roads, let Evil follow after another.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith
From thee, from thee who fliest not from us, O Misery, we fly. Then at the turning of the paths let Misery fall on someone else.
— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)
AV 6 26.3
अन्यत्रास्मन् न्य् उच्यतु सहस्राक्षो अमर्त्यः । यं द्वेषाम तम् ऋछतु यम् उ द्विष्मस् तम् इज् जहि
anyatrāsman ny ucyatu sahasrākṣo amartyaḥ | yaṃ dveṣāma tam ṛchatu yam u dviṣmas tam ij jahi
Elsewhere than on us let the thousand-eyed immortal settle down. Whom we would hate, him let it reach; and whom we hate, him indeed do thou smite.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith
May the immortal, thousand eyed, dwell otherwhere apart from us. Let him afflict the man we hate: smite only him who is our foe.
— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)