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Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 6 — Chapter 9

AV 6 9.1

वाञ्छ मे तन्वं पादौ वाञ्छाक्ष्यौ वाञ्छ सक्थ्यौ । अक्ष्यौ वृषण्यन्त्याः केशा मां ते कामेन शुष्यन्तु

vāñcha me tanvaṃ pādau vāñchākṣyau vāñcha sakthyau | akṣyau vṛṣaṇyantyāḥ keśā māṃ te kāmena śuṣyantu

Desire my body, (my) feet; desire (my) eyes, desire (my) thighs. Let your eyes and hair, as you long for a male, wither with desire for me.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Desire my body, love my feet, love thou mine eyes, and love my legs. Let both thine eyes and hair, fond girl! be dried and parched. through love of me.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 6 9.2

मम त्वा दोषणिश्रिषं कृणोमि हृदयश्रिषम् । यथा मम क्रताव् असो मम चित्तम् उपायसि

mama tvā doṣaṇiśriṣaṃ kṛṇomi hṛdayaśriṣam | yathā mama kratāv aso mama cittam upāyasi

I make you one who clings to my arm, one who clings to my heart, so that you may be in my will, may come to my mind.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

I make thee hang upon mine arm, I make thee lie upon my heart. Thou yieldest to my wish, that thou mayst be submissive to my will.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 6 9.3

यासां नाभिर् आरेहणं हृदि संवननं कृतम् गावो घृतस्य मातरो ऽमूं सं वानयन्तु मे

yāsāṃ nābhir ārehaṇaṃ hṛdi saṃvananaṃ kṛtam gāvo ghṛtasya mātaro 'mūṃ saṃ vānayantu me

(The cows) whose navel is a licking, in whose heart the love-charm has been made — the cows, the mothers of ghee, let them charm yonder woman together with me.

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

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

May they whose kisses are a bond, a love-charm laid within the heart, Mothers of butter, may the cows incline that maid to love of me.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)