Library·Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka)·6·6.116

Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 6.116

यद् यामं चक्रुर् निखनन्तो अग्रे कार्षीवणा अन्नविदो न विद्यया । वैवस्वते राजनि तज् जुहोम्य् अथ यज्ञियं मधुमद् अस्तु नो ऽन्नम् ॥१॥

yad yāmaṃ cakrur nikhananto agre kārṣīvaṇā annavido na vidyayā | vaivasvate rājani taj juhomy atha yajñiyaṃ madhumad astu no 'nnam ||1||

What that was Yama's the Kārshīvaṇas made, digging down in the beginning, food-acquiring, not with knowledge, that I make an oblation unto the king, Vivasvant's son; so let our food be sacrificial (yajñíya), rich in sweet.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

वैवस्वतः कृणवद् भागधेयं मधुभागो मधुना सं सृजाति । मातुर् यद् एन इषितं न आगन् यद् वा पिता ऽपराद्धो जिहीदे ॥२॥

vaivasvataḥ kṛṇavad bhāgadheyaṃ madhubhāgo madhunā saṃ sṛjāti | mātur yad ena iṣitaṃ na āgan yad vā pitā 'parāddho jihīde ||2||

Vivasvant's son shall make [us] an apportionment; having a portion of sweet, he shall unite [us] with sweet—whatever sin of [our] mother's, sent forth, hath come to us, or what [our] father, wronged,* hath done in wrath.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

यदीदं मातुर् यदि पितुर् नः परि भ्रातुः पुत्राच् चेतस एन आगन् । यावन्तो अस्मान् पितरः सचन्ते तेषां सर्वेषां शिवो अस्तु मन्युः ॥३॥

yadīdaṃ mātur yadi pitur naḥ pari bhrātuḥ putrāc cetasa ena āgan | yāvanto asmān pitaraḥ sacante teṣāṃ sarveṣāṃ śivo astu manyuḥ ||3||

If from [our] mother or if from our father, forth from brother, from son, from thought (cétas), this sin hath come to [us]—as many Fathers as have fastened on (sac) us, of them all be the fury propitious [to us].

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)