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Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 6.118

यद् धस्ताभ्यां चकृम किल्बिषाण्य् अक्षाणां गत्नुम् उपलिप्समानाः । उग्रंपश्ये उग्रजितौ तद् अद्याप्सरसाव् अनु दत्ताम् ऋणं नः ॥१॥

yad dhastābhyāṃ cakṛma kilbiṣāṇy akṣāṇāṃ gatnum upalipsamānāḥ | ugraṃpaśye ugrajitau tad adyāpsarasāv anu dattām ṛṇaṃ naḥ ||1||

If (yát) with our hands we have done offenses, desiring to take up the course (?) of the dice, let the two Apsarases, fierce-(ugrá-)seeing, fierce-conquering, forgive today that guilt (ṛṇá) of ours.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

उग्रंपश्ये राष्ट्रभृत् किल्बिषाणि यद् अक्षवृत्तम् अनु दत्तम् न एतत् । ऋणान् नो न ऋणम् एर्त्समानो यमस्य लोके अधिरज्जुर् आयत् ॥२॥

ugraṃpaśye rāṣṭrabhṛt kilbiṣāṇi yad akṣavṛttam anu dattam na etat | ṛṇān no na ṛṇam ertsamāno yamasya loke adhirajjur āyat ||2||

O fierce-seeing one! realm-bearing one! [our] offenses, what happened at the dice—forgive ye that to us; may there not come in Yama's world one having a rope on, desiring to win from us debt (ṛṇá) from debt.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

यस्मा ऋणं यस्य जायाम् उपैमि यं याचमानो अभ्यैमि देवाः । ते वाचं वादिषुर् मोत्तरां मद् देवपत्नी अप्सरसाव् अधीतम् ॥३॥

yasmā ṛṇaṃ yasya jāyām upaimi yaṃ yācamāno abhyaimi devāḥ | te vācaṃ vādiṣur mottarāṃ mad devapatnī apsarasāv adhītam ||3||

To whom [I owe] debt, whose wife I approach, to whom I go begging (yāc), O gods—let them not speak words superior to me; ye (two) Apsarases, wives of gods, take notice!

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)