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Samaveda — Uttararchika — Chapter 9104

SV 2 9104.1

आ यः पुरं नार्मिणीमदीदेदत्यः कविर्नभन्यो३ नार्व । सूरो न रुरुक्वाञ्छतात्मा

ā yaḥ puraṃ nārmiṇīmadīdedatyaḥ kavirnabhanyo3 nārva | sūro na rurukvāñchatātmā

He who lit up the firm(?) stronghold—a racer, a poet, like a steed of the mist—gleaming like the sun, with a hundred lives.

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

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

He who hath lighted up the joyous castle, wise courser like the steed of cloudy heaven, Bright like the Sun with hundredfold existence

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1893)

SV 2 9104.2

अभि द्विजन्मा त्री रोचनानि विश्वा रजांसि शुशुचनो अस्थात् । होता यजिष्ठो अपां सधस्थे

abhi dvijanmā trī rocanāni viśvā rajāṃsi śuśucano asthāt | hotā yajiṣṭho apāṃ sadhasthe

The twice-born one, blazing, has mounted over the three bright realms, over all the spaces—the hotṛ most fit to sacrifice, in the abode of the waters.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

He, doubly born, hath spread in his effulgence through the three luminous realms, through all the regions, Best sacrificing Priest where waters gather.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1893)

SV 2 9104.3

अयं स होता यो द्विजन्मा विश्वा दधे वार्याणि श्रवस्या । मर्तो यो अस्मै सुतुको ददाश

ayaṃ sa hotā yo dvijanmā viśvā dadhe vāryāṇi śravasyā | marto yo asmai sutuko dadāśa

This is that hotṛ who, twice-born, has taken to himself all desirable things by his glories—(and) the mortal who, quick to act, has offered to him.

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

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Priest doubly born, he through his love of glory hath in his keeping all things worth the choosing. The man who brings him gifts hath noble offspring.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1893)