Library·Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka)·1·1.5
आपो हि ष्ठा मयोभुवस् ता न ऊर्जे दधातन । महे रणाय चक्षसे ॥१॥
āpo hi ṣṭhā mayobhuvas tā na ūrje dadhātana | mahe raṇāya cakṣase ||1||
Since ye are kindly waters, do ye set us unto refreshment (ū́rj), unto sight of great joy.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
यो वः शिवतमो रसस् तस्य भाजयतेह नः । उशतीर् इव मातरः ॥२॥
yo vaḥ śivatamo rasas tasya bhājayateha naḥ | uśatīr iva mātaraḥ ||2||
What is your most propitious savor (rása), of that make us share here, like zealous mothers.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
तस्मा अरं गमाम वो यस्य क्षयाय जिन्वथ । आपो जनयथा च नः ॥३॥
tasmā araṃ gamāma vo yasya kṣayāya jinvatha | āpo janayathā ca naḥ ||3||
We would satisfy you in order to that to the possession of which ye quicken, O waters, and generate us.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
ईशाना वार्याणां क्षयन्तीश् चर्षणीनाम् । अपो याचामि भेषजम् ॥४॥
īśānā vāryāṇāṃ kṣayantīś carṣaṇīnām | apo yācāmi bheṣajam ||4||
Of the waters, having mastery of desirable things, ruling over human beings (carṣaṇí), I ask a remedy.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)