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Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 7 — Chapter 76

AV 7 76.1

आ सुस्रसः सुस्रसो असतीभ्यो असत्तराः । सेहोर् अरसतरा हवणाद् विक्लेदीयसीः

ā susrasaḥ susraso asatībhyo asattarāḥ | sehor arasatarā havaṇād vikledīyasīḥ

Slipping away, slipping away, more non-existent than the non-existent ones, more sapless than the seho, more dissolving than the havaṇa.

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

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Rapidly dropping, quick to drop, more evil than the evil ones, More sapless than a dried-up bone, swifter than salt to melt away.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 7 76.2

या ग्रैव्या अपचितो ऽथो या उपपक्ष्याः । विजाम्नि या अपचितः स्वयंस्रसः

yā graivyā apacito 'tho yā upapakṣyāḥ | vijāmni yā apacitaḥ svayaṃsrasaḥ

The apacit-sores that are on the neck, and those on the flanks; the apacits that are on the (joint? vijāman) — (these) fall away of themselves.

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

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Pustules that rise upon the neck, Pustules upon the shoulder- joints, Pustules that, falling of themselves, spring up on every twofold limb:

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 7 76.3

यः कीकसाः प्रशृणाति तलीद्यम् अवतिष्ठति । निर् हास् तं सर्वं जायान्यम् यः कश् च ककुदि श्रितः

yaḥ kīkasāḥ praśṛṇāti talīdyam avatiṣṭhati | nir hās taṃ sarvaṃ jāyānyam yaḥ kaś ca kakudi śritaḥ

That which crushes the ribs, which settles down on the talīdya — drive out all that jāyānya-disease, and whatever has lodged in the hump.

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

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I have expelled and banished all Scrofula harboured in the head, And that which bores the breast-bone through, and that which settles in the sole.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 7 76.4

पक्षी जायान्यः पतति स आ विशति पूरुषम् । तद् अक्षितस्य भेषजम् उभयोः सुक्षतस्य च

pakṣī jāyānyaḥ patati sa ā viśati pūruṣam | tad akṣitasya bheṣajam ubhayoḥ sukṣatasya ca

The winged jāyānya flies; it enters into man. That is the remedy for both, for the one unwounded and for the one badly gashed.

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

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Scrofula flies borne on by wings: it penerates and holds the man. Here is the cure of either kind, the chronic and the transient.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 7 76.5

विद्म वै ते जायान्य जानं यतो जायान्य जायसे । कथं ह तत्र त्वम् हनो यस्य कृण्मो हविर् गृहे

vidma vai te jāyānya jānaṃ yato jāyānya jāyase | kathaṃ ha tatra tvam hano yasya kṛṇmo havir gṛhe

We know indeed, O jāyānya, your birth, from where, O jāyānya, you are born. How then could you strike there, in whose house we make the oblation?

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

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We know thine origin, Scrofula! know whence thou, Scrofula, art born. How hast thou then struck this man here, him in whose house we sacrifice?

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 7 76.6

धृषत् पिब कलशे सोमम् इन्द्र वृत्रहा शूर समरे वसूनाम् । माध्यन्दिने सवन आ वृषस्व रयिष्ठानो रयिम् अस्मासु धेहि

dhṛṣat piba kalaśe somam indra vṛtrahā śūra samare vasūnām | mādhyandine savana ā vṛṣasva rayiṣṭhāno rayim asmāsu dhehi

Drink boldly the soma in the pitcher, Indra, Vṛtra-slayer, hero, in the contest for goods; at the midday pressing pour yourself out (upon us); you whose station is riches, set riches in us.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

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Boldly drink Soma from the beaker, Indra! hero in war for treasure! Vritra-slayer. Fill thyself full at the mid-day libation: thyself possessing riches grant us riches.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)