Library·Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka)·6·6.28
ऋचा कपोतं नुदत प्रणोदम् इषं मदन्तः परि गां नयामः । संलोभयन्तो दुरिता पदानि हित्वा न ऊर्जं प्र पदात् पथिष्ठः ॥१॥
ṛcā kapotaṃ nudata praṇodam iṣaṃ madantaḥ pari gāṃ nayāmaḥ | saṃlobhayanto duritā padāni hitvā na ūrjaṃ pra padāt pathiṣṭhaḥ ||1||
With the praise-verse (ṛ́ç) drive ye the dove forth (praṇódam); reveling in food (íṣ) we lead a cow about, breaking up tracks hard to go in; leaving us (our ?) sustenance shall it fly forth, swift-flying.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
परीमे ऽग्निम् अर्षत परीमे गाम् अनेषत । देवेष्व् अक्रत श्रवः क इमां आ दधर्षति ॥२॥
parīme 'gnim arṣata parīme gām aneṣata | deveṣv akrata śravaḥ ka imāṃ ā dadharṣati ||2||
These have taken fire about; these have led the cow about; they have gained themselves fame (çrávas) among the gods—who shall venture to attack them?
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
यः प्रथमः प्रवतम् आससाद बहुभ्यः पन्थाम् अनुपस्पशानः । यो ऽस्येशे द्विपदो यश् चतुष्पदस् तस्मै यमाय नमो अस्तु मृत्यवे ॥३॥
yaḥ prathamaḥ pravatam āsasāda bahubhyaḥ panthām anupaspaśānaḥ | yo 'syeśe dvipado yaś catuṣpadas tasmai yamāya namo astu mṛtyave ||3||
He who first attained (ā-sad) the slope [of heaven], spying out the road for many, who is master of these bipeds, who of the quadrupeds—to that Yama, to death, be homage.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)