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Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 6.89

इदं यत् प्रेण्यः शिरो दत्तं सोमेन वृष्ण्यम् । ततः परि प्रजातेन हार्दिं ते शोचयामसि ॥१॥

idaṃ yat preṇyaḥ śiro dattaṃ somena vṛṣṇyam | tataḥ pari prajātena hārdiṃ te śocayāmasi ||1||

This head that is love's (? preṇí), virility given by Soma—by what is engendered out of that, do we pain (çocaya) thy heart.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

शोचयामसि ते हार्दिं शोचयामसि ते मनः । वातं धूम इव सध्र्यङ् माम् एवान्व् एतु ये मनः ॥२॥

śocayāmasi te hārdiṃ śocayāmasi te manaḥ | vātaṃ dhūma iva sadhryaṅ mām evānv etu ye manaḥ ||2||

We pain thy heart; we pain thy mind; as smoke the wind, close upon it (sadhryàñc), so let thy mind go after me.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

मह्यं त्वा मित्रावरुणौ मह्यं देवी सरस्वती । मह्यं त्वा मध्यं भूम्या उभाव् अन्तौ सम् अस्यताम् ॥३॥

mahyaṃ tvā mitrāvaruṇau mahyaṃ devī sarasvatī | mahyaṃ tvā madhyaṃ bhūmyā ubhāv antau sam asyatām ||3||

Unto me let Mitra-and-Varuṇa, unto me divine Sarasvatī, unto me let the middle of the earth, let both [its] ends fling (sam-as) thee.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)