Library·Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka)·4·4.36
तान्त् सत्यौजाः प्र दहत्व् अग्निर् वैश्वानरो वृषा । यो नो दुरस्याद् दिप्साच् चाथो यो नो अरातियात् ॥१॥
tānt satyaujāḥ pra dahatv agnir vaiśvānaro vṛṣā | yo no durasyād dipsāc cātho yo no arātiyāt ||1||
Them let him of real force burn forth—Agni Vāiçvānara, the bull; whoso shall abuse and seek to harm us, likewise whoso shall play the niggard toward us.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
यो नो दिप्साद् अदिप्सतो दिप्सतो यश् च दिप्सति । वैश्वानरस्य दंष्ट्रयोर् अग्नेर् अपि दधामि तम् ॥२॥
yo no dipsād adipsato dipsato yaś ca dipsati | vaiśvānarasya daṃṣṭrayor agner api dadhāmi tam ||2||
Whoso shall seek to harm us not seeking to harm, and whoso seeks to harm us seeking to harm—in the two tusks of Agni Vāiçvānara do I set him.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
य आगरे मृगयन्ते प्रतिक्रोशे ऽमावास्ये । क्रव्यादो अन्यान् दिप्सतः सर्वांस् तान्त् सहसा सहे ॥३॥
ya āgare mṛgayante pratikrośe 'māvāsye | kravyādo anyān dipsataḥ sarvāṃs tānt sahasā sahe ||3||
They who hunt in assent (? āgará), in counter-clamor (? pratikroçá), on new-moon [day], the flesh-eating ones, seeking to harm others—all those I overpower with power.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
सहे पिशाचान्त् सहसैषां द्रविणं ददे । सर्वान् दुरस्यतो हन्मि सं म आकूतिर् ऋध्यताम् ॥४॥
sahe piśācānt sahasaiṣāṃ draviṇaṃ dade | sarvān durasyato hanmi saṃ ma ākūtir ṛdhyatām ||4||
I overpower the piçācás with power; I take to myself their property; I slay all the abusers; let my design be successful.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
ये देवास् तेन हासन्ते सूर्येण मिमते जवम् । नदीषु पर्वतेषु ये सं तैः पशुभिर् विदे ॥५॥
ye devās tena hāsante sūryeṇa mimate javam | nadīṣu parvateṣu ye saṃ taiḥ paśubhir vide ||5||
The gods that hasten (hās) with him—they measure speed with the sun—with those cattle (paçú) that are in the streams, in the mountains, I am in concord.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
तपनो अस्मि पिशाचानां व्याघ्रो गोमताम् इव । श्वानः सिंहम् इव दृष्ट्वा ते न विन्दन्ते न्यञ्चनम् ॥६॥
tapano asmi piśācānāṃ vyāghro gomatām iva | śvānaḥ siṃham iva dṛṣṭvā te na vindante nyañcanam ||6||
I am a vexer (tápana) of the piçācás, as a tiger of them that have kine; like dogs on seeing a lion, they do not find a hiding-place (nyáñcana).
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
न पिशाचैः सं शक्नोमि न स्तेनैः न वनर्गुभिः । पिशाचास् तस्मान् नश्यन्ति यम् अहं ग्रामम् आविशे ॥७॥
na piśācaiḥ saṃ śaknomi na stenaiḥ na vanargubhiḥ | piśācās tasmān naśyanti yam ahaṃ grāmam āviśe ||7||
I cannot [bear] with piçācás, nor with thieves, nor with savages (? vanargú); the piçācás disappear from that village which I enter.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
यं ग्रामम् आविशत इदम् उग्रं सहो मम । पिशाचास् तस्मान् नश्यन्ति न पापम् उप जानते ॥८॥
yaṃ grāmam āviśata idam ugraṃ saho mama | piśācās tasmān naśyanti na pāpam upa jānate ||8||
Whatever village this formidable power of mine enters, from that the piçācás disappear; [there] they devise not evil.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
ये मा क्रोधयन्ति लपिता हस्तिनं मशका इव । तान् अहं मन्ये दुर्हितान् जने अल्पशयून् इव ॥९॥
ye mā krodhayanti lapitā hastinaṃ maśakā iva | tān ahaṃ manye durhitān jane alpaśayūn iva ||9||
They who anger me, making a noise, as flies an elephant—them I think ill off, like mites (?) on a man (jána).
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
अभि तं निरृतिर् धत्ताम् अश्वम् इव अश्वाभिधान्या । मल्वो यो मह्यं क्रुध्यति स उ पाशान् न मुच्यते ॥१०॥
abhi taṃ nirṛtir dhattām aśvam iva aśvābhidhānyā | malvo yo mahyaṃ krudhyati sa u pāśān na mucyate ||10||
Let perdition halter him, as a horse with a horse-halter (-abhi-dhā́nī); the fool (malvá) that is angry at me, he is not loosed from the fetter.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)