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Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 6 — Chapter 51

AV 6 51.1

वायोः पूतः पवित्रेण प्रत्यङ् सोमो अति द्रुतः । इन्द्रस्य युजः सखा

vāyoḥ pūtaḥ pavitreṇa pratyaṅ somo ati drutaḥ | indrasya yujaḥ sakhā

Purified by the sieve of Vāyu, the Soma has run over turned toward (us) — the companion of Indra's team.

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

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Cleansed by the filter of the Wind comes Soma past all our enemies, meet friend of Indra.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 6 51.2

आपो अस्मान् मातरः सूदयन्तु घृतेन नो घृतप्वः पुनन्तु । विश्वं हि रिप्रं प्रवहन्ति देवीर् उद् इद् आभ्यः शुचिर् आ पूत एमि

āpo asmān mātaraḥ sūdayantu ghṛtena no ghṛtapvaḥ punantu | viśvaṃ hi ripraṃ pravahanti devīr ud id ābhyaḥ śucir ā pūta emi

Let the Waters, the mothers, make us sweet; let them, purifying with ghee, cleanse us with ghee — for the goddesses carry away all foulness. Up out of them I come, bright and purified.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

May the maternal Waters make us ready: cleanse us with fat- ness they who cleanse with fatness! The Goddesses bear off each blot and tarnish: I come forth from the waters cleansed and stainless.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 6 51.3

यत् किं चेदं वरुण दैव्ये जने ऽभिद्रोहं मनुष्याश् चरन्ति । अचित्त्या चेत् तव धर्म युयोपिम मा नस् तस्माद् एनसो देव रीरिषः

yat kiṃ cedaṃ varuṇa daivye jane 'bhidrohaṃ manuṣyāś caranti | acittyā cet tava dharma yuyopima mā nas tasmād enaso deva rīriṣaḥ

Whatever offence against the divine folk men here commit, O Varuṇa — if through thoughtlessness we have disturbed your ordinance, do not injure us, O god, for that sin.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

O Varuna, whatever the offence may be, the sin which men commit against the heavenly folk— When, through our want of thought we violate thy laws, punish us not, O God, for that iniquity.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)