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Samaveda — Uttararchika — Chapter 9213

SV 2 9213.1

नाके सुपर्णमुप यत्पतन्तं हृदा वेनन्तो अभ्यचक्षत त्वा । हिरण्यपक्षं वरुणस्य दूतं यमस्य योनौ शकुनं भुरण्युं

nāke suparṇamupa yatpatantaṃ hṛdā venanto abhyacakṣata tvā | hiraṇyapakṣaṃ varuṇasya dūtaṃ yamasya yonau śakunaṃ bhuraṇyuṃ

When with their heart, yearning, they looked upon thee flying up to the vault as the fair-winged one, the gold-winged messenger of Varuṇa, the bird stirring restlessly in Yama's abode.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

They gaze on thee with longing in their spirit, as on a strong-winged bird that mounteth sky-ward; On thee with wings of gold, Varuna's envoy, the Bird that hasteneth to the home of Yama.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1893)

SV 2 9213.2

ऊर्ध्वो गन्धर्वो अधि नाके अस्थात्प्रत्यञ्चित्रा बिभ्रदस्यायुधानि । वसानो अत्कं सुरभिं दृशे कं स्व३र्ण नाम जनत प्रियाणि

ūrdhvo gandharvo adhi nāke asthātpratyañcitrā bibhradasyāyudhāni | vasāno atkaṃ surabhiṃ dṛśe kaṃ sva3rṇa nāma janata priyāṇi

Upright the Gandharva stood upon the vault, facing (us), bearing his bright weapons; clothing himself in a fragrant garment, lovely to look upon, like the sun(light) he engendered his dear names.

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

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Erect, to heaven hath the Gandharva mounted, pointing at us his many-coloured weapons: Clad in sweet raiment beautiful to look on, for he, as light, produceth forms that please us..

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1893)

SV 2 9213.3

द्रप्सः समुद्रमभि यज्जिगाति पश्यन्गृध्रस्य चक्षसा विधर्मन् । भानुः शुक्रेण शोचिषा चकानस्तृतीये चक्रे रजसि प्रियाणि

drapsaḥ samudramabhi yajjigāti paśyangṛdhrasya cakṣasā vidharman | bhānuḥ śukreṇa śociṣā cakānastṛtīye cakre rajasi priyāṇi

When the drop goes toward the sea, gazing with the eye of a vulture over the wide expanse; the radiance, taking pleasure in its bright flame, made its dear (things) in the third realm.

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

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

When as a spark he cometh ilear the ocean, looking with vulture's eye as Law commandeth, His lustre, joying in its own bright splendour, maketh dear glories in the loftiest region.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1893)