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Samaveda — Uttararchika — Chapter 7204

SV 2 7204.1

पाहि नो अग्न एकया पाह्यू३त द्वितीयया । पाहि गीर्भिस्तिसृभिरूर्जां पते पाहि चतसृभिर्वसो

pāhi no agna ekayā pāhyū3ta dvitīyayā | pāhi gīrbhistisṛbhirūrjāṃ pate pāhi catasṛbhirvaso

Guard us, O Agni, with one (song), guard also with a second; guard with three songs, O lord of strength, guard with four, O Vasu.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

O King, the potent and terrific envoy, kindled for strength, is manifest in beauty. He shines, observant, with his lofty splendour; chasing black night he comes with white-rayed morning.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1893)

SV 2 7204.2

पाहि विश्वस्माद्रक्षसो अराव्णः प्र स्म वाजेषु नोऽव । त्वामिद्धि नेदिष्ठं देवतातय आपिं नक्षामहे वृधे

pāhi viśvasmādrakṣaso arāvṇaḥ pra sma vājeṣu no'va | tvāmiddhi nediṣṭhaṃ devatātaya āpiṃ nakṣāmahe vṛdhe

Guard (us) from every demon, from the ungenerous one; help us forward in the contests of prizes. For it is you, nearest, whom we approach as kinsman, for the divine service, for thriving.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Having o'ercome the glimmering Black with beauty, and bringing forth the Dame, the great Sire's daughter, Holding aloft the radiant lights of Surya, as messenger of heaven he shines with treasures.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1893)