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Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 6 — Chapter 77

AV 6 77.1

अस्थाद् द्यौर् अस्थात् पृथिव्य् अस्थाद् विश्वम् इदं जगत् । आस्थाने पर्वता अस्थु स्थाम्न्य् अश्वाꣳ अतिष्ठिपम्

asthād dyaur asthāt pṛthivy asthād viśvam idaṃ jagat | āsthāne parvatā asthu sthāmny aśvāṁ atiṣṭhipam

Heaven stood fast, the earth stood fast, all this moving world stood fast; the mountains stood in their standing-place; in the standing-place I have made the horses stand.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Firm stands the heaven, firm stands the earth, firm stands this universal world, Firm stand the rooted mountains. I have put the horses in the stall.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 6 77.2

य उदानत् परायणं य उदानण् न्यायनम् । आवर्तनम् निवर्तनं यो गोपा अपि तं हुवे

ya udānat parāyaṇaṃ ya udānaṇ nyāyanam | āvartanam nivartanaṃ yo gopā api taṃ huve

He who has attained the going-away, who has attained the coming-in, the turning-round and the turning-back — the herdsman: him too I call.

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

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

I call the Herdsman, him who knows the way to drive the cattle forth, Who knows the way to drive them home, to drive them back and drive them in.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 6 77.3

जातवेदो नि वर्तय शतं ते सन्त्व् आवृतः । सहस्रं त उपावृतस् ताभिर् नः पुनर् आ कृधि

jātavedo ni vartaya śataṃ te santv āvṛtaḥ | sahasraṃ ta upāvṛtas tābhir naḥ punar ā kṛdhi

O Jātavedas, turn (them) back; let there be a hundred turnings-back for you, a thousand turnings-back to you; with these make (them ours) again.

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

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

O Jātavedas turn them back: a hundred homeward ways be thine! Thou hast a thousand avenues: by these restore our kine to us.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)