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Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 7 — Chapter 48

AV 7 48.1

राकाम् अहं सुहवा सुष्टुती हुवे शृणोतु नः सुभगा बोधतु त्मना । सीव्यत्व् अपः सूच्याछिद्यमानया ददातु वीरं शतदायम् उक्थ्यम्

rākām ahaṃ suhavā suṣṭutī huve śṛṇotu naḥ subhagā bodhatu tmanā | sīvyatv apaḥ sūcyāchidyamānayā dadātu vīraṃ śatadāyam ukthyam

Rākā, of ready hearing, I call with good praise; let the fortunate one hear us, let her take note of her own accord; let her sew the work with a needle that does not break; let her give a son, of hundredfold gift, worthy of recitation.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

I call on Rākā with hair laud and reverent cry: may she, auspicious, hear us and herself observe. With never-breaking needle may she sew her work, and send a glorious man who gives a hundred gifts.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 7 48.2

यास् ते राके सुमतयः सुपेशसो याभिर् ददासि दाशुषे वसूनि । ताभिर् नो अद्य सुमना उपागहि सहस्रापोषम् सुभगे रराणा

yās te rāke sumatayaḥ supeśaso yābhir dadāsi dāśuṣe vasūni | tābhir no adya sumanā upāgahi sahasrāpoṣam subhage rarāṇā

Those kindly thoughts of yours, O Rākā, well-fashioned, with which you give goods to the worshipper — with those come to us today well-minded, bestowing thousandfold thriving, O fortunate one.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

All thy kind favours, Rākā! lovely in their form, wherewith thou grantest treasures to the man who gives, With these come thou to us this day benevolent, O blessed one, bestowing wealth of thousand sorts.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)