Library·Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka)·2·2.7
अघद्विष्टा देवजाता वीरुच् छपथयोपनी । आपो मलम् इव प्राणैक्षीत् सर्वान् मच् छपथां अधि ॥१॥
aghadviṣṭā devajātā vīruc chapathayopanī | āpo malam iva prāṇaikṣīt sarvān mac chapathāṃ adhi ||1||
Hated by mischief, god-born, the curse-effacing plant hath washed away from me all curses, as waters do filth.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
यश् च सापत्नः शपथो जाम्याः शपथश् च यः । ब्रह्मा यन् मन्युतः शपात् सर्वं तन् नो अधस्पदम् ॥२॥
yaś ca sāpatnaḥ śapatho jāmyāḥ śapathaś ca yaḥ | brahmā yan manyutaḥ śapāt sarvaṃ tan no adhaspadam ||2||
Both the curse that is a rival's, and the curse that is a sister's, what a priest (? brahmán) from fury may curse—all that [be] underneath our feet.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
दिवो मूलम् अवततं पृथिव्या अध्य् उत्ततम् । तेन सहस्रकाण्डेन परि णः पाहि विश्वतः ॥३॥
divo mūlam avatataṃ pṛthivyā adhy uttatam | tena sahasrakāṇḍena pari ṇaḥ pāhi viśvataḥ ||3||
From the sky [is] the root stretched down, from off the earth stretched up; with this, thousand-jointed (-kā́ṇḍa), do thou protect us about on all sides.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
परि मां परि मे प्रजां परि णः पाहि यद् धनम् । अरातिर् नो मा तारीन् मा नस् तारिशुर् अभिमातयः ॥४॥
pari māṃ pari me prajāṃ pari ṇaḥ pāhi yad dhanam | arātir no mā tārīn mā nas tāriśur abhimātayaḥ ||4||
Protect me about, my progeny, [and] what riches are ours; let not the niggard get the better (tṛ) of us; let not hostile plotters get the better of us.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
शप्तारम् एतु शपथो यः सुहार्त् तेन नः सह । चक्षुर्मन्त्रस्य दुर्हार्दः पृष्टीर् अपि शृणीमसि ॥५॥
śaptāram etu śapatho yaḥ suhārt tena naḥ saha | cakṣurmantrasya durhārdaḥ pṛṣṭīr api śṛṇīmasi ||5||
Let the curse go to the curser; our [part] is along with him that is friendly (suhā́rd); of the eye-conjurer (-mántra), the unfriendly, we crush in the ribs (pṛṣṭí).
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)