Library·Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka)·6·6.30

Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 6.30

देवा इमं मधुना संयुतं यवं सरस्वत्याम् अधि मणाव् अचर्कृषुः । इन्द्र आसीत् सीरपतिः शतक्रतुः कीनाशा आसन् मरुतः सुदानवः ॥१॥

devā imaṃ madhunā saṃyutaṃ yavaṃ sarasvatyām adhi maṇāv acarkṛṣuḥ | indra āsīt sīrapatiḥ śatakratuḥ kīnāśā āsan marutaḥ sudānavaḥ ||1||

This barley, combined with honey, the gods plowed much on the Sarasvatī, in behalf of Manu (?); Indra, of a hundred abilities, was furrow-master; the liberal (? sudā́nu) Maruts were the plowmen.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

यस् ते मदो ऽवकेशो विकेशो येनाभिहस्यं पुरुषं कृणोषि । आरात् त्वद् अन्या वनानि वृक्षि त्वं शमि शतवल्शा वि रोह ॥२॥

yas te mado 'vakeśo vikeśo yenābhihasyaṃ puruṣaṃ kṛṇoṣi | ārāt tvad anyā vanāni vṛkṣi tvaṃ śami śatavalśā vi roha ||2||

The intoxication that is thine, with loosened hair, with disheveled hair, wherewith thou makest a man to be laughed at—far from thee do I wrench [out] other woods; do thou, O çamī́, grow up with a hundred twigs.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

बृहत्पलाशे सुभगे वर्षवृद्ध ऋतावरि । मातेव पुत्रेभ्यो मृड केशेभ्यः शमि ॥३॥

bṛhatpalāśe subhage varṣavṛddha ṛtāvari | māteva putrebhyo mṛḍa keśebhyaḥ śami ||3||

O thou of great leaves, blessed one, rain-increased, righteous! as a mother to her sons, be thou gracious to the hair, O çamī́.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)