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1hen his virility had decayed, thee, that causest strength1, we dig up. 2. Ushas (Aurora), Surya (the sun), and this charm of mine ; the bull Pra^apati (the lord of creatures) shall with his lusty fire arouse him ! 1 The original, more drastically, jepaharshamm. By a few changes and omissions in stanzas 3, 6, and 7 the direct simplicity of the original has been similarly veiled. HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA. 3. This herb shall make thee so very full of lusty strength, that thou shalt, when thou art excited, exhale heat as a thing on fire ! 4. The fire of the plants, and the essence of the bulls shall arouse him ! Do thou, O Indra, con- troller of bodies, place the lusty force of men into this person ! 5. Thou (O herb) art the first-born sap of the waters and also of the plants. Moreover thou art the brother of Soma, and the lusty force of the antelope buck ! 6. Now, O Agni, now, O Savitar, now, O goddess Sarasvati, now, O Brahma^aspati, do thou stiffen the pasas as a bow ! 7. I stiffen thy pasas as a bowstring upon the bow. Embrace thou (women) as the antelope buck the gazelle with ever unfailing (strength) ! 8. The strength of the horse, the mule, the goat and the ram, moreover the strength of the bull bestow upon him, O controller of bodies (Indra) ! VI, in. Charm against mania. 1. Release for me, O Agni, this person here, who, bound and well-secured, loudly jabbers ! Then shall he have due regard for thy share (of the offer- ing), when he shall be free from madness ! 2. Agni shall quiet down thy mind, if it has been disturbed ! Cunningly do I prepare a remedy, that thou shalt be freed from madness. 3. (Whose mind) has been maddened by the sin of the gods, or been robbed of sense by the Rakshas, (for him) do I cunningly prepare a remedy, that he shall be free from madness. 4. May the Apsaras restore thee, may Indra, may CHARMS TO CURE DISEASES. Bhaga restore thee ; may all the gods restore thee, that thou mayest be freed from madness ! IV, 37. Charm with the plant a^airzngi to drive out Rakshas, Apsaras and Gandharvas. 1. With thee, O herb, the Atharvans first slew the Rakshas, with thee Kasyapa slew (them), with thee Ka^va and Agastya (slew them). 2. With thee do we scatter the Apsaras and Gan- dharvas. O digdLsrmgi (odina pinnata), goad (a^a) the Rakshas, drive them all away with thy smell ! 3.
2the Atharvans first slew the Rakshas, with thee Kasyapa slew (them), with thee Ka^va and Agastya (slew them). 2. With thee do we scatter the Apsaras and Gan- dharvas. O digdLsrmgi (odina pinnata), goad (a^a) the Rakshas, drive them all away with thy smell ! 3. The Apsaras, Guggulil, Pila, Naladi, Auksha- gandhi, and Pramandani (by name), shall go to the river, to the ford of the waters, as if blown away ! Thither do ye, O Apsaras, pass away, (since) ye have been recognised ! 4. Where grow the asvattha (ficus religiosa) and the banyan-trees, the great trees with crowns, thither do ye, O Apsaras, pass away, (since) ye have been recognised ! 5. Where your gold and silver swings are, where cymbals and lutes chime together, thither do ye, O Apsaras, pass away, (since) ye have been recog- nised. 6. Hither has come the mightiest of the plants and herbs. May the a^a^rzngi ara/aki pierce with her sharp horn (tikshma^rmgi) ! 7. Of the crested Gandharva, the husband of the Apsaras, who comes dancing hither, I crush the two mushkas and cut off the sepas. 8. Terrible are the missiles of Indra, with a hun- dred points, brazen ; with these he shall pierce the Gandharvas, who devour oblations, and devour the avaka-reed. [42] D 34 HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA. 9. Terrible are the missiles of Indra, with a hun- dred points, golden ; with these he shall pierce the Gandharvas, who devour oblations, and devour the avaka-reed. 10. All the Pisaias that devour the avaki-reeds, that burn, and spread their little light in the waters, do thou, O herb, crush and overcome ! 11. One is like a dog, one like an ape. As a youth, with luxuriant locks, pleasant to look upon, the Gandharva hangs about the woman. Him do wre drive out from here with our powerful charm. 12. The Apsaras, you know, are your wives ; ye, the Gandharvas, are their husbands. Speed away, ye immortals, do not go after mortals ! II, 9. Possession by demons of disease, cured by an amulet of ten kinds of wood. 1. O (amulet) of ten kinds of wood, release this man from the demon (rakshas) and the fit (grahi) which has seized upon (^agraha) his joints! Do thou, moreover, O plant, lead him forth to the world of the living ! 2. He has come, he has gone forth, he has joined the community of the living. And he has become the father of sons, and the most happy of men ! 3. This person has come to his senses, he has come to the cities of the living. For he (now) has a hundred physicians, and also a thousand Jierbs. 4. The gods have found thy arrangement, (O amulet); the Brahmans, moreover, the plants.
3e most happy of men ! 3. This person has come to his senses, he has come to the cities of the living. For he (now) has a hundred physicians, and also a thousand Jierbs. 4. The gods have found thy arrangement, (O amulet); the Brahmans, moreover, the plants. All the gods have found thy arrangement upon the earth. 5. (The god) that has caused (disease) shall per- form the cure ; he is himself the best physician. I. CHARMS TO CURE DISEASES. 35 Let him indeed, the holy one, prepare remedies for thee, together with the (earthly) physician ! IV, 36. Charm against demons (pi^a^a) conceived as the cause of disease. 1. May Agni Vaisvanara, the bull of unfailing strength, burn up him that is evil-disposed, and desires to harm us, and him that plans hostile deeds against us ! 2. Between the two rows of teeth of Agni Vais- vanara do I place him that plans to injure us, when we are not planning to injure him ; and him that plans to injure us, when we do plan to injure him. 3. Those who hound us in our chambers, while shouting goes on in the night of the new moon, and the other flesh-devourers who plan to injure us, all of them do I overcome with might. 4. - With might I overcome the Pisaias, rob them of their property; all evil-disposed (demons) do I slay : may my device succeed ! 5. With the gods who vie with, and measure their swiftness with this sun, with those that are in the rivers, and in the mountains, do I, along with my cattle, consort. 6. I plague the PL?a/£as as the tiger the cattle- owners. As dogs who have seen a lion, these do not find a refuge. 7. My strength does not lie with Pi^ias, nor with thieves, nor with prowlers in the forest. From the village which I enter the Pi^as vanish away. 8. From the village which my fierce power has entered the Pi^aias vanish away ; they do not devise evil. d 2 36 HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA. 9. They who irritate me with their jabber, as (buzzing) mosquitoes the elephant, them I regard as wretched (creatures), as small vermin upon people. 10. May Nirrzti (the goddess of destruction) take hold of this one, as a horse with the halter ! The fool who is wroth with me is not freed from (her) snare. II, 25. Charm with the plant prismpami against the demon of disease, called ka/zva. 1. The goddess Frzsnipami has prepared pros- perity for us, mishap for Nirrzti (the goddess of destruction). For she is a fierce devourer of the Ka^vas : her, the mighty, have I employed. 2.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
Romanised transliteration as printed by the translator, not the original script. This is what we hold.
1hen his virility had decayed, thee, that causest strength1, we dig up. 2. Ushas (Aurora), Surya (the sun), and this charm of mine ; the bull Pra^apati (the lord of creatures) shall with his lusty fire arouse him ! 1 The original, more drastically, jepaharshamm. By a few changes and omissions in stanzas 3, 6, and 7 the direct simplicity of the original has been similarly veiled. HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA. 3. This herb shall make thee so very full of lusty strength, that thou shalt, when thou art excited, exhale heat as a thing on fire ! 4. The fire of the plants, and the essence of the bulls shall arouse him ! Do thou, O Indra, con- troller of bodies, place the lusty force of men into this person ! 5. Thou (O herb) art the first-born sap of the waters and also of the plants. Moreover thou art the brother of Soma, and the lusty force of the antelope buck ! 6. Now, O Agni, now, O Savitar, now, O goddess Sarasvati, now, O Brahma^aspati, do thou stiffen the pasas as a bow ! 7. I stiffen thy pasas as a bowstring upon the bow. Embrace thou (women) as the antelope buck the gazelle with ever unfailing (strength) ! 8. The strength of the horse, the mule, the goat and the ram, moreover the strength of the bull bestow upon him, O controller of bodies (Indra) ! VI, in. Charm against mania. 1. Release for me, O Agni, this person here, who, bound and well-secured, loudly jabbers ! Then shall he have due regard for thy share (of the offer- ing), when he shall be free from madness ! 2. Agni shall quiet down thy mind, if it has been disturbed ! Cunningly do I prepare a remedy, that thou shalt be freed from madness. 3. (Whose mind) has been maddened by the sin of the gods, or been robbed of sense by the Rakshas, (for him) do I cunningly prepare a remedy, that he shall be free from madness. 4. May the Apsaras restore thee, may Indra, may CHARMS TO CURE DISEASES. Bhaga restore thee ; may all the gods restore thee, that thou mayest be freed from madness ! IV, 37. Charm with the plant a^airzngi to drive out Rakshas, Apsaras and Gandharvas. 1. With thee, O herb, the Atharvans first slew the Rakshas, with thee Kasyapa slew (them), with thee Ka^va and Agastya (slew them). 2. With thee do we scatter the Apsaras and Gan- dharvas. O digdLsrmgi (odina pinnata), goad (a^a) the Rakshas, drive them all away with thy smell ! 3.
2the Atharvans first slew the Rakshas, with thee Kasyapa slew (them), with thee Ka^va and Agastya (slew them). 2. With thee do we scatter the Apsaras and Gan- dharvas. O digdLsrmgi (odina pinnata), goad (a^a) the Rakshas, drive them all away with thy smell ! 3. The Apsaras, Guggulil, Pila, Naladi, Auksha- gandhi, and Pramandani (by name), shall go to the river, to the ford of the waters, as if blown away ! Thither do ye, O Apsaras, pass away, (since) ye have been recognised ! 4. Where grow the asvattha (ficus religiosa) and the banyan-trees, the great trees with crowns, thither do ye, O Apsaras, pass away, (since) ye have been recognised ! 5. Where your gold and silver swings are, where cymbals and lutes chime together, thither do ye, O Apsaras, pass away, (since) ye have been recog- nised. 6. Hither has come the mightiest of the plants and herbs. May the a^a^rzngi ara/aki pierce with her sharp horn (tikshma^rmgi) ! 7. Of the crested Gandharva, the husband of the Apsaras, who comes dancing hither, I crush the two mushkas and cut off the sepas. 8. Terrible are the missiles of Indra, with a hun- dred points, brazen ; with these he shall pierce the Gandharvas, who devour oblations, and devour the avaka-reed. [42] D 34 HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA. 9. Terrible are the missiles of Indra, with a hun- dred points, golden ; with these he shall pierce the Gandharvas, who devour oblations, and devour the avaka-reed. 10. All the Pisaias that devour the avaki-reeds, that burn, and spread their little light in the waters, do thou, O herb, crush and overcome ! 11. One is like a dog, one like an ape. As a youth, with luxuriant locks, pleasant to look upon, the Gandharva hangs about the woman. Him do wre drive out from here with our powerful charm. 12. The Apsaras, you know, are your wives ; ye, the Gandharvas, are their husbands. Speed away, ye immortals, do not go after mortals ! II, 9. Possession by demons of disease, cured by an amulet of ten kinds of wood. 1. O (amulet) of ten kinds of wood, release this man from the demon (rakshas) and the fit (grahi) which has seized upon (^agraha) his joints! Do thou, moreover, O plant, lead him forth to the world of the living ! 2. He has come, he has gone forth, he has joined the community of the living. And he has become the father of sons, and the most happy of men ! 3. This person has come to his senses, he has come to the cities of the living. For he (now) has a hundred physicians, and also a thousand Jierbs. 4. The gods have found thy arrangement, (O amulet); the Brahmans, moreover, the plants.
3e most happy of men ! 3. This person has come to his senses, he has come to the cities of the living. For he (now) has a hundred physicians, and also a thousand Jierbs. 4. The gods have found thy arrangement, (O amulet); the Brahmans, moreover, the plants. All the gods have found thy arrangement upon the earth. 5. (The god) that has caused (disease) shall per- form the cure ; he is himself the best physician. I. CHARMS TO CURE DISEASES. 35 Let him indeed, the holy one, prepare remedies for thee, together with the (earthly) physician ! IV, 36. Charm against demons (pi^a^a) conceived as the cause of disease. 1. May Agni Vaisvanara, the bull of unfailing strength, burn up him that is evil-disposed, and desires to harm us, and him that plans hostile deeds against us ! 2. Between the two rows of teeth of Agni Vais- vanara do I place him that plans to injure us, when we are not planning to injure him ; and him that plans to injure us, when we do plan to injure him. 3. Those who hound us in our chambers, while shouting goes on in the night of the new moon, and the other flesh-devourers who plan to injure us, all of them do I overcome with might. 4. - With might I overcome the Pisaias, rob them of their property; all evil-disposed (demons) do I slay : may my device succeed ! 5. With the gods who vie with, and measure their swiftness with this sun, with those that are in the rivers, and in the mountains, do I, along with my cattle, consort. 6. I plague the PL?a/£as as the tiger the cattle- owners. As dogs who have seen a lion, these do not find a refuge. 7. My strength does not lie with Pi^ias, nor with thieves, nor with prowlers in the forest. From the village which I enter the Pi^as vanish away. 8. From the village which my fierce power has entered the Pi^aias vanish away ; they do not devise evil. d 2 36 HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA. 9. They who irritate me with their jabber, as (buzzing) mosquitoes the elephant, them I regard as wretched (creatures), as small vermin upon people. 10. May Nirrzti (the goddess of destruction) take hold of this one, as a horse with the halter ! The fool who is wroth with me is not freed from (her) snare. II, 25. Charm with the plant prismpami against the demon of disease, called ka/zva. 1. The goddess Frzsnipami has prepared pros- perity for us, mishap for Nirrzti (the goddess of destruction). For she is a fierce devourer of the Ka^vas : her, the mighty, have I employed. 2.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
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