Library·Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka)·6·6.15
उत्तमो अस्य् ओषधीनां तव वृक्षा उपस्तयः । उपस्तिर् अस्तु सो ऽस्माकं यो अस्मां अभिदासति ॥१॥
uttamo asy oṣadhīnāṃ tava vṛkṣā upastayaḥ | upastir astu so 'smākaṃ yo asmāṃ abhidāsati ||1||
Thou art the highest of herbs; of thee the trees are subjects (upastí); let him be our subject who assails us.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
सबन्धुश् चासबन्धुश् च यो अस्मां अभिदासति । तेषां सा वृक्षाणाम् इवाहं भूयासम् उत्तमः ॥२॥
sabandhuś cāsabandhuś ca yo asmāṃ abhidāsati | teṣāṃ sā vṛkṣāṇām ivāhaṃ bhūyāsam uttamaḥ ||2||
Whoever, both kindred and not of kin, assails us, of them may I be highest, as this one of trees.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
यथा सोम ओषधीनाम् उत्तमो हविषां कृतः । तलाशा वृक्षाणाम् इवाहं भूयासम् उत्तमः ॥३॥
yathā soma oṣadhīnām uttamo haviṣāṃ kṛtaḥ | talāśā vṛkṣāṇām ivāhaṃ bhūyāsam uttamaḥ ||3||
As of herbs soma is made highest of oblations, as the talā́çā of trees, [so] may I be highest.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)