Library·Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka)·6·6.76
य एनं परिषीदन्ति समादधति चक्षसे । संप्रेद्धो अग्निर् जिह्वाभिर् उद् एतु हृदयाद् अधि ॥१॥
ya enaṃ pariṣīdanti samādadhati cakṣase | saṃpreddho agnir jihvābhir ud etu hṛdayād adhi ||1||
They who sit about him, who pile on [fuel] in order to beholding [him]—let Agni, fully kindled, with his tongues arise out of [their] heart.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
अग्नेः साम्तपनस्याहम् आयुषे पदम् आ रभे । अद्धातिर् यस्य पश्यति धूमम् उद्यन्तम् आस्यतः ॥२॥
agneḥ sāmtapanasyāham āyuṣe padam ā rabhe | addhātir yasya paśyati dhūmam udyantam āsyataḥ ||2||
Of the heating (? sāṁtapaná) Agni I take hold of the track (? padá), in order to length of life (ā́yus)—out of whose mouth the soothsayer (addhātí) sees the smoke arising.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
यो अस्य समिधं वेद क्षत्रियेण समाहिताम् । नाभिह्वारे पदं नि दधाति स मृत्यवे ॥३॥
yo asya samidhaṃ veda kṣatriyeṇa samāhitām | nābhihvāre padaṃ ni dadhāti sa mṛtyave ||3||
He who knoweth the fuel of him, piled on by the kṣatríya —he setteth not the foot (padá) in detriment unto death.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
नैनं घ्नन्ति पर्यायिणो न सन्नां अव गछति । अग्नेर् यः क्षत्रियो विद्वान् नाम गृह्नाति आयुषे ॥४॥
nainaṃ ghnanti paryāyiṇo na sannāṃ ava gachati | agner yaḥ kṣatriyo vidvān nāma gṛhnāti āyuṣe ||4||
They that go about (paryāyín) do not slay him, he goes not down to the dead (? sanná)—the kṣatríya who, knowing, takes the name of Agni unto length of life.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)