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Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 6.115

यद् विद्वांसो यद् अविद्वांस एनांसि चकृमा वयम् । यूयं नस् तस्मान् मुञ्चत विश्वे देवाः सजोषसः ॥१॥

yad vidvāṃso yad avidvāṃsa enāṃsi cakṛmā vayam | yūyaṃ nas tasmān muñcata viśve devāḥ sajoṣasaḥ ||1||

If knowing, if unknowing, we have committed sins, do ye free us from that, O all gods, accordant.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

यदि जाग्रद् यदि स्वपन्न् एन एनस्यो ऽकरम् । भूतं मा तस्माद् भव्यं च द्रुपदाद् इव मुञ्चताम् ॥२॥

yadi jāgrad yadi svapann ena enasyo 'karam | bhūtaṃ mā tasmād bhavyaṃ ca drupadād iva muñcatām ||2||

If waking, if sleeping, I sinful have committed sin, let what is and what is to be free me from that, as from a post (drupadá).

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

द्रुपदाद् इव मुमुचानः स्विन्नः स्नात्वा मलाद् इव । पूतं पवित्रेणेवाज्यं विश्वे शुम्भन्तु मैनसः ॥३॥

drupadād iva mumucānaḥ svinnaḥ snātvā malād iva | pūtaṃ pavitreṇevājyaṃ viśve śumbhantu mainasaḥ ||3||

Being freed as if from a post, as one that has sweated from filth on bathing, like sacrificial butter purified by a purifier—let all cleanse (çumbh) me of sin.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)