Library·Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka)·19·19.40
यन् मे छिद्रं मनसो यच् च वाचः सरस्वती मन्युमन्तं जगाम । विश्वैस् तद् देवैः सह संविदानः सं दधातु बृहस्पतिः ॥१॥
yan me chidraṃ manaso yac ca vācaḥ sarasvatī manyumantaṃ jagāma | viśvais tad devaiḥ saha saṃvidānaḥ saṃ dadhātu bṛhaspatiḥ ||1||
What that is defective (chidrá) of my mind, and what of my voice hath found (? jagā́ma) Sarasvatī enraged, let Bṛihaspati, in concord with all the gods, mend (sam-dhā) that.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
मा न आपो मेधां मा ब्रह्म प्र मथिष्टन । सुष्यदा यूयं स्यन्दध्वम् उपहूतो ऽहं सुमेधा वर्चस्वी ॥२॥
mā na āpo medhāṃ mā brahma pra mathiṣṭana | suṣyadā yūyaṃ syandadhvam upahūto 'haṃ sumedhā varcasvī ||2||
Do not ye, O waters, devastate (pra-math) our wisdom nor our bráhman; come ye flowing with easy flow, being invoked; [be] I of good wisdom, having splendor.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
मा नो मेधां मा नो दीक्षां मा नो हिंसिष्टं यत् तपः । शिवा नः शं सन्त्व् आयुषे शिवा भवन्तु मातरः ॥३॥
mā no medhāṃ mā no dīkṣāṃ mā no hiṃsiṣṭaṃ yat tapaḥ | śivā naḥ śaṃ santv āyuṣe śivā bhavantu mātaraḥ ||3||
Do not ye injure our wisdom, nor our consecration, nor what ardor (tápas) is ours; be they propitious to us in order to [prolonged] life-time; let them become [our] propitious mothers.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
या नः पीपरद् अश्विना ज्योतिष्मती तमस् तिरः । ताम् अस्मे रासताम् इषम् ॥४॥
yā naḥ pīparad aśvinā jyotiṣmatī tamas tiraḥ | tām asme rāsatām iṣam ||4||
That food (? íṣ) O Açvins, which, full of light, shall make us pass through the darkness, may ye give (rā) to us.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)