Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 6 — Chapter 76
AV 6 76.1
य एनं परिषीदन्ति समादधति चक्षसे । संप्रेद्धो अग्निर् जिह्वाभिर् उद् एतु हृदयाद् अधि
ya enaṃ pariṣīdanti samādadhati cakṣase | saṃpreddho agnir jihvābhir ud etu hṛdayād adhi
Those who sit about him and lay (the fire) together so as to see — let Agni, kindled high, rise up with his tongues out of the heart.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith
Those who are sitting round this babe prepare him to be looked upon. Let Agni thoroughly inflamed with all his tongues rise from his- heart.
— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)
AV 6 76.2
अग्नेः साम्तपनस्याहम् आयुषे पदम् आ रभे । अद्धातिर् यस्य पश्यति धूमम् उद्यन्तम् आस्यतः
agneḥ sāmtapanasyāham āyuṣe padam ā rabhe | addhātir yasya paśyati dhūmam udyantam āsyataḥ
Of Agni the scorcher I grasp the footprint, for long life — (he) whose ... truly sees the smoke rising from the mouth.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith
For length of life I use the name of Agni the Consuming God, Whose smoke the sage who knows the truth beholds proceeding. from his mouth.
— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)
AV 6 76.3
यो अस्य समिधं वेद क्षत्रियेण समाहिताम् । नाभिह्वारे पदं नि दधाति स मृत्यवे
yo asya samidhaṃ veda kṣatriyeṇa samāhitām | nābhihvāre padaṃ ni dadhāti sa mṛtyave
He who knows his kindling-wood, laid together by a kṣatriya, does not set his foot into crookedness, for death.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith
The man who knows his fuel laid in order by the Kshatriya Sets not his foot upon the steep declivity that leads to Death.
— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)
AV 6 76.4
नैनं घ्नन्ति पर्यायिणो न सन्नाꣳ अव गछति । अग्नेर् यः क्षत्रियो विद्वान् नाम गृह्नाति आयुषे
nainaṃ ghnanti paryāyiṇo na sannāṁ ava gachati | agner yaḥ kṣatriyo vidvān nāma gṛhnāti āyuṣe
The circling ones do not slay him, nor does he go down among the fallen — the kṣatriya who, knowing, takes the name of Agni for long life.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith
Those who encompass slay him not: he goes not near his lurk— ing foes The Kshatriya who, knowing well, takes Agni's name for length of life.
— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)