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1with 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 Vrzsniparm was first begotten power- ful ; with her do I lop off the heads of the evil brood, as (the head) of a bird. 3. The blood-sucking demon, and him that tries to rob (our) health, Ka^va, the devourer of our offspring, destroy, O Prz>nipar;zi, and overcome ! 4. These Ka/zvas, the effacers of life, drive into the mountain ; go thou burning after them like fire, 0 goddess PrzVnipar/zi ! 5. Drive far away these Ka^vas, the effacers of life ! Where the dark regions are, there have 1 made these flesh-eaters go. VI, 32. Charm for driving away demons (Rakshas and Pisa^as). 1. Do ye well offer within the fire this oblation with ghee, that destroys the spook! Do thou, O Agni, burn from afar against the Rakshas, (but) our houses thou shalt not consume ! I. CHARMS TO CURE DISEASES. 37 2. Rudra has broken your necks, ye Pisaias : may he also break your ribs, ye spooks ! The plant whose power is everywhere has united you with Yama (death). 3. Exempt from danger, O Mitra and Varu/za, may we here be ; drive back with your flames the devouring demons (Atrin) ! Neither aider, nor support do they find ; smiting one another they go to death. II, 4. Charm with an amulet derived from the ^angi^a tree, against diseases and demons. 1. Unto long life and great delights, for ever unharmed and vigorous, do we wear the ^"angida, as an amulet destructive of the vishkandha. 2. From convulsions, from tearing pain, from vishkandha, and from torturing pain, the ^angida shall protect us on all sides — an amulet of a thousand virtues ! 3. This ^afigida conquers the vishkandha, and smites the Atrin (devouring demons) ; may this all- healing ^angida protect us from adversity ! 4. By means of the invigorating ^angL/a, bestowed by the gods as an amulet, do we conquer in battle the vishkandha and all the Rakshas. 5. May the hemp and may the^arigu/a protect me against vishkandha ! The one (^angi^a) is brought hither from the forest, the other (hemp) from the sap of the furrow. 6. Destruction of witchcraft is this amulet, also destruction of hostile powers : may the powerful ^angi^a therefore extend far our lives ! 38 HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA. XIX, 34. Charm with an amulet derived from the ^angina-tree, against diseases and demons. 1.
2ruction of witchcraft is this amulet, also destruction of hostile powers : may the powerful ^angi^a therefore extend far our lives ! 38 HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA. XIX, 34. Charm with an amulet derived from the ^angina-tree, against diseases and demons. 1. Thou art an Angiras, O ^angi^a, a protector art thou, O ^angi^a. All two-footed and four-footed creatures that belong to us the^angi^a shall protect ! 2. The sorceries fifty-three in number, and the hundred performers of sorcery, all these having lost their force, the ^angi^/a shall render bereft of strength ! 3. Bereft of strength is the gotten-up clamour, bereft of strength are the seven debilitating (charms). Do thou, O ^angida, hurl away from here poverty, as an archer an arrow ! 4. This ^angi^a is a destroyer of witchcraft, and also a destroyer of hostile powers. May then the powerful ^angida extend far our lives ! 5. May the greatness of the ^angi^a protect us about on all sides, (the greatness) with which he has overcome the vishkandha (and) the sa^skandha, (overcoming) the powerful (disease) with power ! 6. Thrice the gods begot thee that hast grown up upon the earth. The Brahma^as of yore knew thee here by the name of Angiras. 7. Neither the plants of olden times, nor they of recent times, surpass thee ; a fierce slayer is the ^angi^a, and a happy refuge. 8. And when, O ^angu/a of boundless virtue, thou didst spring up in the days of yore, O fierce (plant), Indra at first placed strength in thee. 9. Fierce Indra, verily, put might into thee, O lord of the forest! Dispersing all diseases, slay thou the Rakshas, O plant ! 10. The breaking disease and the tearing disease, I. CHARMS TO CURE DISEASES. 39 the bal&sa, and the pain in the limbs, the takman that comes every autumn, may the ^angi^a render devoid of force ! XIX, 35. Charm with an amulet derived from the ^angina-tree, against diseases and demons. 1. While uttering Indras name the seers bestowed (upon men) the ^ahgi^a, which the gods in the beginning had made into a remedy, destructive of the vishkandha. 2. May that ^angi^a protect us as a treasurer his treasures, he whom the gods and the Brahma^as made into a refuge that puts to naught the hostile powers ! 3. The evil eye of the hostile-minded, (and) the evil-doer I have approached. Do thou, O thousand- eyed one, watchfully destroy these ! A refuge art thou, O^ahgida. 4.
3whom the gods and the Brahma^as made into a refuge that puts to naught the hostile powers ! 3. The evil eye of the hostile-minded, (and) the evil-doer I have approached. Do thou, O thousand- eyed one, watchfully destroy these ! A refuge art thou, O^ahgida. 4. May the ^angi^a protect me from heaven, protect me from earth, protect (me) from the atmos- phere, protect me from the plants, protect me from the past, as well as the future ; may he protect us from every direction of space ! 5. The sorceries performed by the gods, and also those performed by men, may the all-healing ^angu/a render them all devoid of strength ! VI, 85. Exorcism of disease by means of an amulet from the vara/za-tree. 1. This divine tree, the vara^a, shall shut out (virayatai). The gods, too, have shut out (avlvaran) the disease that hath entered into this man! 2. By Indras command, by Mitra's and by 4<3 HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA. Vanma's, by the command of all the gods do we shut out thy disease. 3. As VWtra did hold fast these ever-flowing waters, thus do I shut out (varaye) disease from thee with (the help of) Agni Vaiivanara. VI, 127. The ^ipudru-tree as a panacea. 1. Of the abscess, of the balasa, of flow of blood, O plant ; of neuralgia, O herb, thou shalt not leave even a speck ! 2. Those two boils (testicles) of thine, O bal&sa, that are fixed upon the arm-pits — I know the remedy for that : the ^ipudru-tree takes care of it. 3. The neuralgia that is in the limbs, that is in the ears and in the eyes — we tear them out, the neuralgia, the abscess, and the pain in the heart. That unknown disease do we drive away downward. XIX, 38. The healing properties of bdellium. 1. [Neither diseases, nor yet a curse, enters this person, O arundhatl !] From him that is pene- trated by the sweet fragrance of the healing bdellium, diseases flee in every direction, as antelopes and as horses run. 2. Whether, O bdellium, thou comest from the Sindhu (Indus), or whether thou art derived from the sea, I have seized the qualities of both, that this person shall be exempt from harm. VI, 91. Barley and water as universal remedies. 1. This barley they did plough vigorously, with yokes of eight and yokes of six. With it I drive off to a far distance the ailment from thy body. I. CHARMS TO CURE DISEASES. 4 1 2. Downward blows the wind, downward burns the sun, downward the cow is milked : downward shall thy ailment pass ! 3.
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.
1with 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 Vrzsniparm was first begotten power- ful ; with her do I lop off the heads of the evil brood, as (the head) of a bird. 3. The blood-sucking demon, and him that tries to rob (our) health, Ka^va, the devourer of our offspring, destroy, O Prz>nipar;zi, and overcome ! 4. These Ka/zvas, the effacers of life, drive into the mountain ; go thou burning after them like fire, 0 goddess PrzVnipar/zi ! 5. Drive far away these Ka^vas, the effacers of life ! Where the dark regions are, there have 1 made these flesh-eaters go. VI, 32. Charm for driving away demons (Rakshas and Pisa^as). 1. Do ye well offer within the fire this oblation with ghee, that destroys the spook! Do thou, O Agni, burn from afar against the Rakshas, (but) our houses thou shalt not consume ! I. CHARMS TO CURE DISEASES. 37 2. Rudra has broken your necks, ye Pisaias : may he also break your ribs, ye spooks ! The plant whose power is everywhere has united you with Yama (death). 3. Exempt from danger, O Mitra and Varu/za, may we here be ; drive back with your flames the devouring demons (Atrin) ! Neither aider, nor support do they find ; smiting one another they go to death. II, 4. Charm with an amulet derived from the ^angi^a tree, against diseases and demons. 1. Unto long life and great delights, for ever unharmed and vigorous, do we wear the ^"angida, as an amulet destructive of the vishkandha. 2. From convulsions, from tearing pain, from vishkandha, and from torturing pain, the ^angida shall protect us on all sides — an amulet of a thousand virtues ! 3. This ^afigida conquers the vishkandha, and smites the Atrin (devouring demons) ; may this all- healing ^angida protect us from adversity ! 4. By means of the invigorating ^angL/a, bestowed by the gods as an amulet, do we conquer in battle the vishkandha and all the Rakshas. 5. May the hemp and may the^arigu/a protect me against vishkandha ! The one (^angi^a) is brought hither from the forest, the other (hemp) from the sap of the furrow. 6. Destruction of witchcraft is this amulet, also destruction of hostile powers : may the powerful ^angi^a therefore extend far our lives ! 38 HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA. XIX, 34. Charm with an amulet derived from the ^angina-tree, against diseases and demons. 1.
2ruction of witchcraft is this amulet, also destruction of hostile powers : may the powerful ^angi^a therefore extend far our lives ! 38 HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA. XIX, 34. Charm with an amulet derived from the ^angina-tree, against diseases and demons. 1. Thou art an Angiras, O ^angi^a, a protector art thou, O ^angi^a. All two-footed and four-footed creatures that belong to us the^angi^a shall protect ! 2. The sorceries fifty-three in number, and the hundred performers of sorcery, all these having lost their force, the ^angi^/a shall render bereft of strength ! 3. Bereft of strength is the gotten-up clamour, bereft of strength are the seven debilitating (charms). Do thou, O ^angida, hurl away from here poverty, as an archer an arrow ! 4. This ^angi^a is a destroyer of witchcraft, and also a destroyer of hostile powers. May then the powerful ^angida extend far our lives ! 5. May the greatness of the ^angi^a protect us about on all sides, (the greatness) with which he has overcome the vishkandha (and) the sa^skandha, (overcoming) the powerful (disease) with power ! 6. Thrice the gods begot thee that hast grown up upon the earth. The Brahma^as of yore knew thee here by the name of Angiras. 7. Neither the plants of olden times, nor they of recent times, surpass thee ; a fierce slayer is the ^angi^a, and a happy refuge. 8. And when, O ^angu/a of boundless virtue, thou didst spring up in the days of yore, O fierce (plant), Indra at first placed strength in thee. 9. Fierce Indra, verily, put might into thee, O lord of the forest! Dispersing all diseases, slay thou the Rakshas, O plant ! 10. The breaking disease and the tearing disease, I. CHARMS TO CURE DISEASES. 39 the bal&sa, and the pain in the limbs, the takman that comes every autumn, may the ^angi^a render devoid of force ! XIX, 35. Charm with an amulet derived from the ^angina-tree, against diseases and demons. 1. While uttering Indras name the seers bestowed (upon men) the ^ahgi^a, which the gods in the beginning had made into a remedy, destructive of the vishkandha. 2. May that ^angi^a protect us as a treasurer his treasures, he whom the gods and the Brahma^as made into a refuge that puts to naught the hostile powers ! 3. The evil eye of the hostile-minded, (and) the evil-doer I have approached. Do thou, O thousand- eyed one, watchfully destroy these ! A refuge art thou, O^ahgida. 4.
3whom the gods and the Brahma^as made into a refuge that puts to naught the hostile powers ! 3. The evil eye of the hostile-minded, (and) the evil-doer I have approached. Do thou, O thousand- eyed one, watchfully destroy these ! A refuge art thou, O^ahgida. 4. May the ^angi^a protect me from heaven, protect me from earth, protect (me) from the atmos- phere, protect me from the plants, protect me from the past, as well as the future ; may he protect us from every direction of space ! 5. The sorceries performed by the gods, and also those performed by men, may the all-healing ^angu/a render them all devoid of strength ! VI, 85. Exorcism of disease by means of an amulet from the vara/za-tree. 1. This divine tree, the vara^a, shall shut out (virayatai). The gods, too, have shut out (avlvaran) the disease that hath entered into this man! 2. By Indras command, by Mitra's and by 4<3 HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA. Vanma's, by the command of all the gods do we shut out thy disease. 3. As VWtra did hold fast these ever-flowing waters, thus do I shut out (varaye) disease from thee with (the help of) Agni Vaiivanara. VI, 127. The ^ipudru-tree as a panacea. 1. Of the abscess, of the balasa, of flow of blood, O plant ; of neuralgia, O herb, thou shalt not leave even a speck ! 2. Those two boils (testicles) of thine, O bal&sa, that are fixed upon the arm-pits — I know the remedy for that : the ^ipudru-tree takes care of it. 3. The neuralgia that is in the limbs, that is in the ears and in the eyes — we tear them out, the neuralgia, the abscess, and the pain in the heart. That unknown disease do we drive away downward. XIX, 38. The healing properties of bdellium. 1. [Neither diseases, nor yet a curse, enters this person, O arundhatl !] From him that is pene- trated by the sweet fragrance of the healing bdellium, diseases flee in every direction, as antelopes and as horses run. 2. Whether, O bdellium, thou comest from the Sindhu (Indus), or whether thou art derived from the sea, I have seized the qualities of both, that this person shall be exempt from harm. VI, 91. Barley and water as universal remedies. 1. This barley they did plough vigorously, with yokes of eight and yokes of six. With it I drive off to a far distance the ailment from thy body. I. CHARMS TO CURE DISEASES. 4 1 2. Downward blows the wind, downward burns the sun, downward the cow is milked : downward shall thy ailment pass ! 3.
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