Library·Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka)·1·1.13
नमस् ते अस्तु विद्युते नमस् ते स्तनयित्नवे । नमस् ते अस्त्व् अश्मने येना दूडाशे अस्यसि ॥१॥
namas te astu vidyute namas te stanayitnave | namas te astv aśmane yenā dūḍāśe asyasi ||1||
Homage be to thy lightning, homage to thy thunder; homage be to thy bolt (áçman), with which thou hurlest at the impious one (dūḍáç).
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
नमस् ते प्रवतो नपाद् यतस् तपः समूहसि । मृडया नस् तनूभ्यो मयस् तोकेभ्यस् कृधि ॥२॥
namas te pravato napād yatas tapaḥ samūhasi | mṛḍayā nas tanūbhyo mayas tokebhyas kṛdhi ||2||
Homage to thee, child of the height (pravát), whence thou gatherest (sam-ūh) heat (tápas); be merciful to ourselves; do kindness (máyas) to our offspring (toká).
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
प्रवतो नपान् नम एवास्तु तुभ्यं नमस् ते हेतये तपुषे च कृण्मः । विद्म ते धाम परमं गुहा यत् समुद्रे अन्तर् निहितासि नाभिः ॥३॥
pravato napān nama evāstu tubhyaṃ namas te hetaye tapuṣe ca kṛṇmaḥ | vidma te dhāma paramaṃ guhā yat samudre antar nihitāsi nābhiḥ ||3||
Child of the height, be homage to thee; homage we pay to thy missile (hetí) and heat (tápus); we know thy highest abode (dhā́man) that is in secret; thou art set as navel within the [cloud-]ocean.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
यां त्वा देवा असृजन्त विश्व इषुं कृण्वाना असनाय धृष्णुम् । सा नो मृड विदथे गृणाना तस्यै ते नमो अस्तु देवि ॥४॥
yāṃ tvā devā asṛjanta viśva iṣuṃ kṛṇvānā asanāya dhṛṣṇum | sā no mṛḍa vidathe gṛṇānā tasyai te namo astu devi ||4||
Thou whom all the gods did create, the bold one, ⌊[the gods]⌋ making an arrow for hurling—do thou, besung in the council (vidátha), be merciful to us; to thee as such be homage, O goddess.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)