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Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 7 — Chapter 95

AV 7 95.1

उद् अस्य श्यावौ विथुरौ गृध्रौ द्याम् इव पेततुः । उच्छोचनप्रशोचनव् अस्योच्छोचनौ हृदः

ud asya śyāvau vithurau gṛdhrau dyām iva petatuḥ | ucchocanapraśocanav asyocchocanau hṛdaḥ

His two dark, unsteady vultures have flown up as if to heaven — the two burners and scorchers, the two burners of his heart.

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

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

To heaven, as 'twere, have soared this man's two vultures, staggering, dusky hued. The Parcher and the Drier-up, the pair who parch and dry his heart.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 7 95.2

अहम् एनाव् उद् अतिष्ठिपं गावौ श्रान्तसदाव् इव । कुर्कुराव् इव कूजन्ताव् उदवन्तौ वृकाव् इव

aham enāv ud atiṣṭhipaṃ gāvau śrāntasadāv iva | kurkurāv iva kūjantāv udavantau vṛkāv iva

I have made those two stand up, like two cattle lying down worn out, whimpering like two dogs, howling(?) like two wolves.

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

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

I verily have stirred them up like oxen resting after toil. Like two loud-snarling curs, or like two wolves who watch to make their spring:

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 7 95.3

आतोदिनौ नितोदिनाव् अथो संतोदिनाव् उत । अपि नह्याम्य् अस्य मेढ्रं य इतः स्त्री पुमान् जभार

ātodinau nitodināv atho saṃtodināv uta | api nahyāmy asya meḍhraṃ ya itaḥ strī pumān jabhāra

The two that stab at, that stab down, and also that stab together — I bind up the penis of him, whether woman or man, who has carried (it) off from here.

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

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Like two that thrust, like two that pierce, like two that strike with mutual blows. I bind the conduit of the man or dame who hence hath taken aught.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)