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Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 6 — Chapter 81

AV 6 81.1

यन्तासि यछसे हस्ताव् अप रक्षांसि सेधसि । प्रजां धनं च गृह्णानः परिहस्तो अभूद् अयम्

yantāsi yachase hastāv apa rakṣāṃsi sedhasi | prajāṃ dhanaṃ ca gṛhṇānaḥ parihasto abhūd ayam

You are a restrainer, you hold back (the) hands, you drive away the demons; grasping offspring and wealth, this has become an encircler-of-the-hand (amulet).

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

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Thou art a grasper, holding fast both hands: drivest fiends away. A holder both of progeny and riches hath this Ring become.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 6 81.2

परिहस्त वि धारय योनिं गर्भाय धातवे । मर्यादे पुत्रम् आ धेहि तं त्वम् आ गमयागमे

parihasta vi dhāraya yoniṃ garbhāya dhātave | maryāde putram ā dhehi taṃ tvam ā gamayāgame

O hand-amulet, hold the womb apart for the embryo to be placed; O you within the bounds, set a son (here)—make him come, for coming.

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

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Prepare accordantly, O Ring, the mother for the infant's birth. On the right way bring forth the boy. Make him come hither. I am here.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 6 81.3

यं परिहस्तम् अबिभर् अदितिः पुत्रकाम्या । त्वष्टा तम् अस्या आ बध्नाद् यथा पुत्रं जनाद्

yaṃ parihastam abibhar aditiḥ putrakāmyā | tvaṣṭā tam asyā ā badhnād yathā putraṃ janād

The hand-amulet which Aditi wore out of desire for a son—that let Tvaṣṭā bind on this woman, so that she may bring forth a son.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

The Amulet which Aditi wore when desirous of a son, Tvashtar hath bound upon this dame and said, Be mother of a boy.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)