Library·Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka)·6·6.23

Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 6.23

सस्रुषीस् तद् अपसो दिवा नक्तं च सस्रुषीः । वरेण्यक्रतुर् अहम् अपो देवीर् उप ह्वये ॥१॥

sasruṣīs tad apaso divā naktaṃ ca sasruṣīḥ | vareṇyakratur aham apo devīr upa hvaye ||1||

Flowing on, devoted to it; by day and by night flowing on; I, of desirable activity, call upon the heavenly waters.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

ओता आपः कर्मण्या मुञ्चन्त्व् इतः प्रणीतये । सद्यः कृण्वन्त्व् एतवे ॥२॥

otā āpaḥ karmaṇyā muñcantv itaḥ praṇītaye | sadyaḥ kṛṇvantv etave ||2||

Let them release here the worked-in waters of the ceremony for conducting forward; let them at once make [them] to go.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

देवस्य सवितुः सवे कर्म कृण्वन्तु मानुषाः । शं नो भवन्त्व् अप ओषधीः शिवाः ॥३॥

devasya savituḥ save karma kṛṇvantu mānuṣāḥ | śaṃ no bhavantv apa oṣadhīḥ śivāḥ ||3||

In the impulse (savá) of the divine impeller (savitár) let men do their [sacred] work; weal to us be the waters, the herbs propitious.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)