Atharva-Veda Samhita/Book VII/Hymn 94 (99)
94 (99). For India's help to unanimity.
[Atharvan.—sāumyam. ānuṣṭubham.]
Found also in Pāipp. xix. Not used by Kāuç. In Vāit. (13. 12) it accompanies, in the agniṣṭoma, the conducting of king Soma to his throne; and again, later (23. 7), the bringing of the dhruvagraha of soma into the cup.
Translated: Henry, 38, 109; Griffith, i. 375.—Cf. Oldenberg, Rigveda i. p. 249.
1. Fixed (dhruvá), with a fixed oblation, do we lead down Soma, that Indra may make the clans (víç) like-minded, wholly ours.
The verse is RV. x. 173. 6 and VS. vii. 25 c, and the first half is found in MS. i. 3. 15; also in TS. iii. 2. 86, followed at the interval of two pādas by the second half. RV. has, for áva...nayāmasi, abhí...mṛçāmasi (Ppp. abhi soma bhṛçāmahi); for yáthā nas in c it reads átho te (Ppp. atrā te)*; and in d balihṛ́tas (also Ppp.) for sámmanasas. TS. has, for c, d, yáthā na índra íd víçaḥ kévalīḥ sárvāḥ sámanasaḥ kárat. MS. reads vaḥ (?) for ‘va in b; VS. is quite different: dh. dh. mánasā vācā́ sómam áva nayāmi: áthā na índra íd víço ‘sapatnā́ḥ sámanasas kárat. *⌊And hence karat for kárat in d.—The vs. is also noted as occurring at K. xxxv. 7.⌋