Library·Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka)·6·6.87

Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 6.87

आ त्वाहार्षम् अन्तर् अभूर् ध्रुवस् तिष्ठाविचाचलत् । विशस् त्वा सर्वा वाञ्छन्तु मा त्वद् राष्ट्रम् अधि भ्रशत् ॥१॥

ā tvāhārṣam antar abhūr dhruvas tiṣṭhāvicācalat | viśas tvā sarvā vāñchantu mā tvad rāṣṭram adhi bhraśat ||1||

I have taken thee; thou hast become within; stand thou fixed, not unsteady; let all the people (víças) want thee; let not the kingdom fall away from thee.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

इहैवैधि माप च्योष्ठाः पर्वत इवाविचाचलत् । इन्द्र इवेह ध्रुवस् तिष्ठेह राष्ट्रम् उ धारय ॥२॥

ihaivaidhi māpa cyoṣṭhāḥ parvata ivāvicācalat | indra iveha dhruvas tiṣṭheha rāṣṭram u dhāraya ||2||

Be thou just here; be not moved away; like a mountain, not unsteady; O Indra, stand thou fixed just here; here do thou maintain royalty.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

इन्द्र एतम् अदीधरत् ध्रुवं ध्रुवेण हविषा । तस्मै सोमो अधि ब्रवद् अयं च ब्रह्मणस् पतिः ॥३॥

indra etam adīdharat dhruvaṃ dhruveṇa haviṣā | tasmai somo adhi bravad ayaṃ ca brahmaṇas patiḥ ||3||

Indra hath maintained this man fixed by a fixed oblation; him may Soma bless, and Brahmaṇaspati here.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)