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Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 6 — Chapter 88

AV 6 88.1

ध्रुवा द्यौर् ध्रुवा पृथिवी ध्रुवं विश्वम् इदं जगत् । ध्रुवासः पर्वता इमे ध्रुवो राजा विशाम् अयम्

dhruvā dyaur dhruvā pṛthivī dhruvaṃ viśvam idaṃ jagat | dhruvāsaḥ parvatā ime dhruvo rājā viśām ayam

Firm is the sky, firm the earth, firm is all this moving world; firm are these mountains, firm is this king of the clans.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Firm is the sky, firm is the earth, and firm is all this living world; Firm are these mountains on their base, and stedfast is this King of men.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 6 88.2

ध्रुवं ते राजा वरुणो ध्रुवम् देवो बृहस्पतिः । ध्रुवं त इन्द्रश् चाग्निश् च राष्ट्रं धारयतां ध्रुवम्

dhruvaṃ te rājā varuṇo dhruvam devo bṛhaspatiḥ | dhruvaṃ ta indraś cāgniś ca rāṣṭraṃ dhārayatāṃ dhruvam

Firm for thee (be) king Varuṇa, firm the god Bṛhaspati, firm for thee let Indra and Agni hold the kingship firm.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Stedfast may Varuna the King, stedfast the God Brihaspati, Stedfast may Indra stedfast, too, may Agni keep thy stedfast reign.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 6 88.3

ध्रुवो ऽच्युतः प्र मृणीहि शत्रून् छत्रूयतो ऽधरान् पादयस्व । सर्वा दिशः संमनसः सध्रीचीर् ध्रुवाय ते समितिः कल्पताम् इह

dhruvo 'cyutaḥ pra mṛṇīhi śatrūn chatrūyato 'dharān pādayasva | sarvā diśaḥ saṃmanasaḥ sadhrīcīr dhruvāya te samitiḥ kalpatām iha

Firm, unshaken, crush thou the foes; make those who show enmity fall beneath. Let all the directions, of one mind, be turned the same way; let the assembly here be fitted for thee, the firm one.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Firm, never to be shaken, crush thy foemen, under thy feet lay those who strive against thee. One-minded, true to thee be all the regions: faithful to thee, the firm, be this assembly!

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)