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Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 7 — Chapter 115

AV 7 115.1

प्र पतेतः पापि लक्ष्मि नश्येतः प्रामुतः पत । अयस्मयेनाङ्केन द्विषते त्वा सजामसि

pra patetaḥ pāpi lakṣmi naśyetaḥ prāmutaḥ pata | ayasmayenāṅkena dviṣate tvā sajāmasi

Fly away from here, O evil Lakṣmī; vanish from here, fly forth from yonder; with an iron hook we fasten thee to the one who hates (us).

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Hence. Evil Fortune! fly away, vanish from this place and from that. We fix thee with an iron hook unto the man who hateth us.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 7 115.2

या मा लक्ष्मीः पतयालूर् अजुष्टाभिचस्कन्द वन्दनेव वृक्षम् । अन्यत्रास्मत् सवितस् ताम् इतो धा हिरण्यहस्तो वसु नो रराणः

yā mā lakṣmīḥ patayālūr ajuṣṭābhicaskanda vandaneva vṛkṣam | anyatrāsmat savitas tām ito dhā hiraṇyahasto vasu no rarāṇaḥ

The Lakṣmī that, flighty and unwelcome, has leapt upon me as a creeper upon a tree — her, O Savitar, put away from here, elsewhere than upon us, thou of the golden hand, granting us goods.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Granting us riches, Savitar! golden-banded, send thou away from us to other regions That Fortune who, flying, abominable, hath, as a creeper climbs• a tree, assailed me.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 7 115.3

एकशतं लक्ष्म्यो मर्त्यस्य साकं तन्वा जनुषो ऽधि जाताः । तासां पापिष्ठा निर् इतः प्र हिण्मः शिवा अस्मभ्यं जातवेदो नियछ

ekaśataṃ lakṣmyo martyasya sākaṃ tanvā januṣo 'dhi jātāḥ | tāsāṃ pāpiṣṭhā nir itaḥ pra hiṇmaḥ śivā asmabhyaṃ jātavedo niyacha

A hundred and one Lakṣmīs are born, together with the body, upon the birth of a mortal; of these we send the most evil away from here; the kindly ones hold fast for us, O Jātavedas.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

One and a hundred Fortunes all together are at his birth born with a mortal's body. Of these we send away the most unlucky: keep lucky ones for us, O Jātavedas.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 7 115.4

एता एना व्याकरं खिले गा विष्ठिता इव । रमन्तां पुण्या लक्ष्मीर् याः पापीस् ता अनीनशम्

etā enā vyākaraṃ khile gā viṣṭhitā iva | ramantāṃ puṇyā lakṣmīr yāḥ pāpīs tā anīnaśam

These here I have sorted out, like cows standing apart on the waste ground; let the auspicious Lakṣmīs stay; those that are evil I have made vanish.

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

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

I have disparted these and those like cows who stray on common land. Here let auspicious Fortunes stay: hence have I banished evil ones.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)