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Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 7 — Chapter 65

AV 7 65.1

प्रतीचीनफलो हि त्वम् अपामार्ग रुरोहिथ । सर्वान् मच् छपथाम् अधि वरीयो यवया इतः

pratīcīnaphalo hi tvam apāmārga rurohitha | sarvān mac chapathām adhi varīyo yavayā itaḥ

For thou, Apāmārga, hast grown with fruit turned backward; keep all curses far away from me, away from here.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

With retroverted fruit hast thou, O Apāmārga, sprung and grown. Hence into distance most remote drive every curse away from, me.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 7 65.2

यद् दुष्कृतं यच् छमलं यद् वा चेरिम पापया । त्वया तद् विश्वतोमुखापामार्गाप मृज्महे

yad duṣkṛtaṃ yac chamalaṃ yad vā cerima pāpayā | tvayā tad viśvatomukhāpāmārgāpa mṛjmahe

What ill deed, what stain (there is), or what we have done with an evil (woman/deed) — that we wipe away with thee, O Apāmārga facing all ways.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Whatever evil we have done, whatever vile or sinful act, With thee, O Apāmārga, who lookest all ways, we wipe it off.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 7 65.3

श्यावदता कुनखिना बण्डेन यत् सहासिम । अपामार्ग त्वया वयं सर्वं तद् अप मृज्महे

śyāvadatā kunakhinā baṇḍena yat sahāsima | apāmārga tvayā vayaṃ sarvaṃ tad apa mṛjmahe

Whatever (guilt) we have incurred by sitting together with a dark-toothed man, with one of bad nails, with a maimed man — all that we wipe away with thee, O Apāmārga.

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

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

If with the cripple we have lived, whose teeth are black and nails deformed, With thee, O Apāmārga, we wipe all that ill away from us.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)