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Samaveda — Uttararchika — Chapter 9308

SV 2 9308.1

मर्माणि ते वर्मणा च्छादयामि सोमस्त्वा राजामृतेनानु वस्तां । उरोर्वरीयो वरुणस्ते कृणोतु जयन्तं त्वानु देवा मदन्तु

marmāṇi te varmaṇā cchādayāmi somastvā rājāmṛtenānu vastāṃ | urorvarīyo varuṇaste kṛṇotu jayantaṃ tvānu devā madantu

I cover your vital spots with armour; let king Soma clothe you with the immortal draught; let Varuṇa make for you wider than wide; let the gods rejoice at you as you conquer.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Thy vital parts I cover with thine armour: with immortality King Soma clothe thee! Varuna give thee what is more than ample, and in thy victory may Gods be joyful!

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1893)

SV 2 9308.2

अन्धा अमित्रा भवताशीर्षाणोऽहय इव । तेषां वो अग्निनुन्नानामिन्द्रो हन्तु वरंवरं

andhā amitrā bhavatāśīrṣāṇo'haya iva | teṣāṃ vo agninunnānāmindro hantu varaṃvaraṃ

Become blind, O foes, headless like snakes; of you, thrust down by Agni, let Indra slay each and every chosen one.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Blind, O my foemen, shall ye be, even as headless serpents are May Indra slay each best of you when Agni's flame hath struck you down!

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1893)

SV 2 9308.3

यो नः स्वोऽरणो यश्च निष्ट्यो जिघांसति । देवास्तं सर्वे धूर्वन्तु ब्रह्म वर्म ममान्तरं शर्म वर्म ममान्तरं

yo naḥ svo'raṇo yaśca niṣṭyo jighāṃsati | devāstaṃ sarve dhūrvantu brahma varma mamāntaraṃ śarma varma mamāntaraṃ

Whoever, our own or an alien, and whoever is an outsider, seeks to slay us — let all the gods destroy him; the sacred word is my inner armour, shelter is my inner armour.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Whoso would kill us, whether he be a stranger foe or one of us, May all the Gods discomfit him! My nearest, closest mail is prayer, my closest armour and defence.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1893)