Library·Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka)·1·1.2
विद्मा शरस्य पितरं पर्जन्यं भूरिधायसम् । विद्मो ष्व् अस्य मातरं पृथिवीं भूरिवर्पसम् ॥१॥
vidmā śarasya pitaraṃ parjanyaṃ bhūridhāyasam | vidmo ṣv asya mātaraṃ pṛthivīṃ bhūrivarpasam ||1||
We know the reed's father, Parjanya the much-nourishing; and we know well its mother, the earth of many aspects.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
ज्याके परि णो नमाश्मानं तन्वं कृधि । वीडुर् वरीयो ऽरातीर् अप द्वेषांस्य् आ कृधि ॥२॥
jyāke pari ṇo namāśmānaṃ tanvaṃ kṛdhi | vīḍur varīyo 'rātīr apa dveṣāṃsy ā kṛdhi ||2||
O bow-string, bend about us; make thyself a stone; being hard, put very far away niggards [and] haters.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
वृक्षं यद् गावः परिषस्वजाना अनुस्फुरं शरं अर्चन्त्य् ऋभुम् । शरुम् अस्मद् यावय दिद्युम् इन्द्र ॥३॥
vṛkṣaṃ yad gāvaḥ pariṣasvajānā anusphuraṃ śaraṃ arcanty ṛbhum | śarum asmad yāvaya didyum indra ||3||
When the kine, embracing the tree, sing the quivering dexterous (ṝ ṛbhú) reed, keep away from us, O Indra, the shaft, the missile.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
यथा द्यां च पृथिवीं चान्तस् तिष्ठति तेजनम् । एवा रोगं चास्रावं चान्तस् तिष्ठतु मुञ्ज इत् ॥४॥
yathā dyāṃ ca pṛthivīṃ cāntas tiṣṭhati tejanam | evā rogaṃ cāsrāvaṃ cāntas tiṣṭhatu muñja it ||4||
As between both heaven and earth stands the bamboo (? téjana), so let the reed-stalk (múñja) stand between both the disease and the flux (āsrāvá).
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)