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Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 7 — Chapter 18

AV 7 18.1

प्र नभस्व पृथिवि भिन्द्धीदं दिव्यं नभः । उद्नो दिव्यस्य नो धातर् ईशानो वि ष्या दृतिम्

pra nabhasva pṛthivi bhinddhīdaṃ divyaṃ nabhaḥ | udno divyasya no dhātar īśāno vi ṣyā dṛtim

Burst forth, O Earth; split open this heavenly cloud; O Dhātṛ, who art able, unloose for us the skin-bag of the heavenly water.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Burst open, Prithvi, and cleave asunder this celestial cloud. Untie, O Dhātar—for thou canst—the bottle of the breast of heaven.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 7 18.2

न घ्रंस् तताप न हिमो जघान प्र नभतां पृथिवी जीरदानुः । आपश् चिद् अस्मै घृतम् इत् क्षरन्ति यत्र सोमः सदम् इत् तत्र भद्रम्

na ghraṃs tatāpa na himo jaghāna pra nabhatāṃ pṛthivī jīradānuḥ | āpaś cid asmai ghṛtam it kṣaranti yatra somaḥ sadam it tatra bhadram

Heat has not scorched, frost has not smitten; let the earth burst forth with quickening drops; for him the very waters flow as ghee; where soma is, there is ever good fortune.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Let not the Sun's heat burn, nor cold destroy her. Let Earth with all her quickening drops burst open. Even for her the waters flow, and fatness: where Soma is even there is bliss for ever.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)