Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c10.5

c10.5

Translation :—
(1) "May the Samiti and the Sabhā, the two daughters of Prajāpati, concurrently aid me. May he with whom I shall meet co-operate with me ; may I, O Ye Fathers, speak agreeably to those assembled.
(2) "We know thy name, O Assembly : *Narishtā* verily is thy name. May all those that sit assembled in thee utter speech in harmony with me.
(3) "Of them that are sitting together I take to myself the power and the understanding in this entire gathering, O Indra, render me successful."
(4) "If your mind has wandered to a distance, or has been enchained here or there, then do we turn it hither ; May your mind take delight in me !" [I have adopted the translation of the hymn as proposed in the Sacred Books of the East volume on the Atharva-Veda (xlii, 138), with the exception of the rendering of of *narishtā* which has been translated there as 'mirth,' and, alternatively, as 'most favourable to men' (p. 544).]