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Samaveda — Uttararchika — Chapter 1203

SV 2 1203.1

वयमु त्वा तदिदर्था इन्द्र त्वायन्तः सखायः । कण्वा उक्थेभिर्जरन्ते

vayamu tvā tadidarthā indra tvāyantaḥ sakhāyaḥ | kaṇvā ukthebhirjarante

We indeed, with just that purpose, O Indra, devoted to you, your comrades, the Kaṇvas, sing to you with hymns.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

This, even this, O Indra, we implore: as thy devoted friends, The Kanvas praise thee with their hymns.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1893)

SV 2 1203.2

न घेमन्यदा पपन वज्रिन्नपसो नविष्टौ । तवेदु स्तोमैश्चिकेत

na ghemanyadā papana vajrinnapaso naviṣṭau | tavedu stomaiściketa

I have surely taken pleasure in nothing else, O wielder of the vajra, in the fresh quest of (this) work; by (our) praise-songs it is you alone (whom the mind) has marked.

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

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Naught else, O Thunderer, have I praised in the skilled singer's eulogy; On thy laud only have I thought.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1893)

SV 2 1203.3

इच्छन्ति देवाः सुन्वन्तं न स्वप्नाय स्पृहयन्ति । यन्ति प्रमादमतन्द्राः

icchanti devāḥ sunvantaṃ na svapnāya spṛhayanti | yanti pramādamatandrāḥ

The gods desire the one who presses (soma); they have no longing for sleep; untiring they go against heedlessness.

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

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

The Gods seek him who presses out the Soma; they desire not sleep: They punish sloth unweariedly

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1893)