Yajur Sama Atharvan Vedas

ATHARVA VEDA
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auspicious be to us right here!
4. Here be prosperity, licre be sap! Be thou here one that especially gives a thousandfold! Make the
cattle prosper, thou mother of twins!
5. Where our pious friends live joyously, having left behind the ailments of their bodies, to that world
the mother of twins did attain: may she not injure our men and our cattle!
6. Where is the world of our pious friends, where the world of thern that sacrifice with the agnihotra,
to that world the mother of twins did attain: may she not injure our imen and our cattle!
VI, 92. Charm to endow a horse with swiftness.
1. Swift as the wind be thou, O steed, when joined (to the chariot); at Indra's urging go, fleet as the
mind! The Maruts, the all-possessing, shall harness thee,Tvashtar shall put fleetness into thy feet!
2. With the fleetness, O runner, that has been deposited in thee in a secret place, (with the fleetness)
that has been made over to the eagle, the wind, and moves in them, with that, O steed, strong with
strength, do thou win the. race, reaching the goal in the contest!
3. Thy body, O steed, leading (our) body, shall run, a pleasure to ourselves, delight to thyself! A god,
not stumbling, for the support of the great, he shall, as if upon the heaven, found his own light!
III, 13. Charm for conducting a river into a new channel.
1. Because of yore, when the (cloud-) serpent was slain (by Indra), ye did rush forth and shout
(anadatâ), therefore is your name 'shouters' (nadyah rivers'): that is your designation, ye streams!
2. Because, when sent forth by Varuna, ye then quickly did bubble up; then Indra met (âpnot) you, as
ye went, therefore anon are ye 'meeters' (âpah waters')!
3. When reluctantly ye flowed, Indra, forsooth, did with might choose (avîvarata) you as his own, ye
goddesses! Therefore 'choice' (vâr 'water') has been given you as your name!
4. One god stood upon you, as ye flowed according to will. Up breathed (ud ânishuh) they who are
known as 'the great' (mahîh). Therefore 'upbreather' (udakam 'water') are they called!
5. The waters are kindly, the waters in truth were ghee. These waters, truly, do support Agni and
Soma. May the readily flowing, strong sap of the honey-dripping (waters) come to me, together with
life's breath and lustre!
6. Then do I see them and also do I hear them; their sound, their voice doth come to me. When, ye
golden-coloured, I have refreshed myself with you, then I ween, ambrosia (amrita) am I tasting!
7. Here, ye waters, is your heart, here is your calf, ye righteous ones! Come ye, mighty ones, by this
way here, by which I am conducting you here!
VI, 106. Charm to ward off danger from fire.
1. Where thou comest, (O fire), and where thou goest away, the blooming dûrvâ-plant shall grow: a
well-spring there shall rise up, or a lotus-laden pool!
2. Here (shall be) the gathering place of the waters, here the dwelling-place of the sea! In the midst of
a pond our house shall be: turn, (O fire), away thy jaws!
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