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1t thou shalt be in my power, shalt come up to my wish. 6. All her thoughts do ye, O Mitra and Varu/za, drive out of her ! Then, having deprived her of her will, put her into my power alone ! VI, 139. Charm to arouse the passionate love of a woman. 1. Clinging to the ground thou didst grow, (O plant), that producest bliss for me; a hundred branches extend from thee, three and thirty grow down from thee : with this plant of a thousand leaves thy heart do I parch. 2. Thy heart shall parch (with love) for me, and thy mouth shall parch (with love for me) ! Languish, IV. CHARMS PERTAINING TO WOMEN. IO3 moreover, with love for me, with parched mouth pass thy days ! 3. Thou that causest affection, kindlest (love), brown, lovely (plant), draw (us) together; draw together yonder woman and myself, our hearts make the same ! 4. As the mouth of him that hath not drunk dries up, thus languish thou with love for me, with parched mouth pass thy days ! 5. As the ichneumon tears the serpent, and joins him together again, thus, O potent (plant), join together what hath been torn by love ! VII, 38. Charm to secure the love of a man. 1. This potent herb do I dig out: it draws toward me the eye, causes (love's) tears. It brings back him wTho has gone to a distance, rejoices him that approaches me. 2. By (the plant) with which the Asurf allured Indra away from the gods, by that do I subject thee, that I may be well-beloved of thee ! 3. Thy face is turned towards Soma (the moon), thy face is turned towards Surya (the sun), thy face is turned towards all the gods : 't is thee here that we do invoke. 4. My speech, not thine, (in this matter) hath weight : in the assembly, forsooth, do thou speak ! To me alone shalt thou belong, shalt not even discourse of other women ! 5. Whether thou art beyond the haunts of men, or whether across the river, this very herb, as if a captive bound, shall bring thee back to me ! 104 HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA. VI, 130. Charm to arouse the passionate love of a man. 1. This yearning love comes from the Apsaras, the victorious, imbued with victory. Ye gods, send forth the yearning love : may yonder man burn after me ! 2. My wish is, he shall long for me, devoted he shall long for me ! Ye gods, send forth the yearning love : may yonder man burn after me ! 3. That yonder man shall long for me, (but) I for him nevermore, ye gods, send forth the yearning love : may yonder man burn after me ! 4.
2long for me, devoted he shall long for me ! Ye gods, send forth the yearning love : may yonder man burn after me ! 3. That yonder man shall long for me, (but) I for him nevermore, ye gods, send forth the yearning love : may yonder man burn after me ! 4. Do ye, O Maruts, intoxicate him (with love) ; do thou, O mid-air, intoxicate him ; do thou, O Agni, intoxicate him ! May yonder man burn after me ! VI, 131. Charm to arouse the passionate love of a man. 1. From thy head unto thy feet do I implant (love's) longing into thee. Ye gods, send forth the yearning love : may yonder man burn after me ! 2. Favour this (plan), Anumati ; fit it together, Akuti ! Ye gods, send forth the yearning love : may yonder man burn after me ! 3. If thou dost run three leagues away, (or even) five leagues, the distance coursed by a horseman, from there thou shalt again return, shalt be the father of our sons ! VI, 132. Charm to arouse the passionate love of a man. 1. Love's consuming longing, together with yearn- IV. CHARMS PERTAINING TO WOMEN. IO5 ing, which the gods have poured into the waters, that do I kindle for thee by the law of Varima ! 2. Love's consuming longing, together with yearn- ing, which the all-gods (vLsve deva/fc) have poured into the waters, that do I kindle for thee by the law of Vanma ! 3. Love's consuming longing, together with yearn- ing, which Indra;rf has poured into the waters, that do I kindle for thee by the law of Varu^a ! 4. Love's consuming longing, together with yearn- ing, which Indra and Agni have poured into the waters, that do I kindle for thee by the law of Vanma ! 5. Love's consuming longing, together with yearn- ing, which Mitra and Varu^a have poured into the waters, that do I kindle for thee by the law of Varu/za ! IV, 5. Charm at an assignation. 1. The bull with a thousand horns who rose out of the sea, with the aid of him, the mighty one, do we put the folks to sleep. 2. The wind blows not over the earth. No one looks on. Do thou then, befriended of Indra, put all women and dogs to sleep ! 3. The women that lie upon couches and upon beds, and they that rest in litters, the women all that exhale sweet fragrance, do we put to sleep. 4. Every moving thing I have held fast. Eye and breath I have held fast. I have held fast all limbs in the deep gloom of the night. 5. Of him that sits, and him that walks, of him that stands and looks about, of these the eyes we do shut, just as these premises (are shut). I06 HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA. 6.
3e held fast. I have held fast all limbs in the deep gloom of the night. 5. Of him that sits, and him that walks, of him that stands and looks about, of these the eyes we do shut, just as these premises (are shut). I06 HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA. 6. The mother shall sleep, the father shall sleep, the dog shall sleep, the lord of the house shall sleep ! All her relations shall sleep, and these people round about shall sleep ! 7. O sleep, put thou to sleep all people with the magic that induces sleep ! Put the others to sleep until the sun rises ; may I be awake until the dawn appears, like Indra, unharmed, uninjured ! VI, 77. Charm to cause the return of a truant woman. 1. The heavens have stood, the earth has stood, all creatures have stood. The mountains have stood upon their foundation, the horses in the stable I have caused to stand. 2. Him that has control of departure, that has control of coming home, return, and turning in, that shepherd do I also call. 3. O Gatavedas (Agni), cause thou to turn in; a hundred ways hither shall be thine, a thousand modes of return shall be thine : with these do thou restore us again ! VI, 18. Charm to allay jealousy. 1. The first impulse of jealousy, moreover the one that comes after the first, the fire, the heart- burning, that do we waft away from thee. 2. As the earth is dead in spirit, in spirit more dead than the dead, and as the spirit of him that has died, thus shall the spirit of the jealous (man) be dead ! 3. Yon fluttering little spirit that has been fixed IV. CHARMS PERTAINING TO WOMEN. I07 into thy heart, from it the jealousy do I remove, as air from a water-skin. VII, 45. Charm to allay jealousy. 1. From folk belonging to all kinds of people, from the Sindhu (Indus) thou hast been brought hither : from a distance, I ween, has been fetched the very remedy for jealousy. 2. As if a fire is burning him, as if the forest-fire burns in various directions, this jealousy of his do thou quench, as a fire (is quenched) with water ! I, 14. A woman's incantation against her rival. 1. I have taken unto myself her fortune and her glory, as a wreath off a tree. Like a mountain with broad foundation may she sit a long time with her parents ! 2. This woman shall be subjected to thee as thy wife, O king Yama; (till then) let her be fixed to the house of her mother, or her brother, or her father ! 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.
1t thou shalt be in my power, shalt come up to my wish. 6. All her thoughts do ye, O Mitra and Varu/za, drive out of her ! Then, having deprived her of her will, put her into my power alone ! VI, 139. Charm to arouse the passionate love of a woman. 1. Clinging to the ground thou didst grow, (O plant), that producest bliss for me; a hundred branches extend from thee, three and thirty grow down from thee : with this plant of a thousand leaves thy heart do I parch. 2. Thy heart shall parch (with love) for me, and thy mouth shall parch (with love for me) ! Languish, IV. CHARMS PERTAINING TO WOMEN. IO3 moreover, with love for me, with parched mouth pass thy days ! 3. Thou that causest affection, kindlest (love), brown, lovely (plant), draw (us) together; draw together yonder woman and myself, our hearts make the same ! 4. As the mouth of him that hath not drunk dries up, thus languish thou with love for me, with parched mouth pass thy days ! 5. As the ichneumon tears the serpent, and joins him together again, thus, O potent (plant), join together what hath been torn by love ! VII, 38. Charm to secure the love of a man. 1. This potent herb do I dig out: it draws toward me the eye, causes (love's) tears. It brings back him wTho has gone to a distance, rejoices him that approaches me. 2. By (the plant) with which the Asurf allured Indra away from the gods, by that do I subject thee, that I may be well-beloved of thee ! 3. Thy face is turned towards Soma (the moon), thy face is turned towards Surya (the sun), thy face is turned towards all the gods : 't is thee here that we do invoke. 4. My speech, not thine, (in this matter) hath weight : in the assembly, forsooth, do thou speak ! To me alone shalt thou belong, shalt not even discourse of other women ! 5. Whether thou art beyond the haunts of men, or whether across the river, this very herb, as if a captive bound, shall bring thee back to me ! 104 HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA. VI, 130. Charm to arouse the passionate love of a man. 1. This yearning love comes from the Apsaras, the victorious, imbued with victory. Ye gods, send forth the yearning love : may yonder man burn after me ! 2. My wish is, he shall long for me, devoted he shall long for me ! Ye gods, send forth the yearning love : may yonder man burn after me ! 3. That yonder man shall long for me, (but) I for him nevermore, ye gods, send forth the yearning love : may yonder man burn after me ! 4.
2long for me, devoted he shall long for me ! Ye gods, send forth the yearning love : may yonder man burn after me ! 3. That yonder man shall long for me, (but) I for him nevermore, ye gods, send forth the yearning love : may yonder man burn after me ! 4. Do ye, O Maruts, intoxicate him (with love) ; do thou, O mid-air, intoxicate him ; do thou, O Agni, intoxicate him ! May yonder man burn after me ! VI, 131. Charm to arouse the passionate love of a man. 1. From thy head unto thy feet do I implant (love's) longing into thee. Ye gods, send forth the yearning love : may yonder man burn after me ! 2. Favour this (plan), Anumati ; fit it together, Akuti ! Ye gods, send forth the yearning love : may yonder man burn after me ! 3. If thou dost run three leagues away, (or even) five leagues, the distance coursed by a horseman, from there thou shalt again return, shalt be the father of our sons ! VI, 132. Charm to arouse the passionate love of a man. 1. Love's consuming longing, together with yearn- IV. CHARMS PERTAINING TO WOMEN. IO5 ing, which the gods have poured into the waters, that do I kindle for thee by the law of Varima ! 2. Love's consuming longing, together with yearn- ing, which the all-gods (vLsve deva/fc) have poured into the waters, that do I kindle for thee by the law of Vanma ! 3. Love's consuming longing, together with yearn- ing, which Indra;rf has poured into the waters, that do I kindle for thee by the law of Varu^a ! 4. Love's consuming longing, together with yearn- ing, which Indra and Agni have poured into the waters, that do I kindle for thee by the law of Vanma ! 5. Love's consuming longing, together with yearn- ing, which Mitra and Varu^a have poured into the waters, that do I kindle for thee by the law of Varu/za ! IV, 5. Charm at an assignation. 1. The bull with a thousand horns who rose out of the sea, with the aid of him, the mighty one, do we put the folks to sleep. 2. The wind blows not over the earth. No one looks on. Do thou then, befriended of Indra, put all women and dogs to sleep ! 3. The women that lie upon couches and upon beds, and they that rest in litters, the women all that exhale sweet fragrance, do we put to sleep. 4. Every moving thing I have held fast. Eye and breath I have held fast. I have held fast all limbs in the deep gloom of the night. 5. Of him that sits, and him that walks, of him that stands and looks about, of these the eyes we do shut, just as these premises (are shut). I06 HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA. 6.
3e held fast. I have held fast all limbs in the deep gloom of the night. 5. Of him that sits, and him that walks, of him that stands and looks about, of these the eyes we do shut, just as these premises (are shut). I06 HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA. 6. The mother shall sleep, the father shall sleep, the dog shall sleep, the lord of the house shall sleep ! All her relations shall sleep, and these people round about shall sleep ! 7. O sleep, put thou to sleep all people with the magic that induces sleep ! Put the others to sleep until the sun rises ; may I be awake until the dawn appears, like Indra, unharmed, uninjured ! VI, 77. Charm to cause the return of a truant woman. 1. The heavens have stood, the earth has stood, all creatures have stood. The mountains have stood upon their foundation, the horses in the stable I have caused to stand. 2. Him that has control of departure, that has control of coming home, return, and turning in, that shepherd do I also call. 3. O Gatavedas (Agni), cause thou to turn in; a hundred ways hither shall be thine, a thousand modes of return shall be thine : with these do thou restore us again ! VI, 18. Charm to allay jealousy. 1. The first impulse of jealousy, moreover the one that comes after the first, the fire, the heart- burning, that do we waft away from thee. 2. As the earth is dead in spirit, in spirit more dead than the dead, and as the spirit of him that has died, thus shall the spirit of the jealous (man) be dead ! 3. Yon fluttering little spirit that has been fixed IV. CHARMS PERTAINING TO WOMEN. I07 into thy heart, from it the jealousy do I remove, as air from a water-skin. VII, 45. Charm to allay jealousy. 1. From folk belonging to all kinds of people, from the Sindhu (Indus) thou hast been brought hither : from a distance, I ween, has been fetched the very remedy for jealousy. 2. As if a fire is burning him, as if the forest-fire burns in various directions, this jealousy of his do thou quench, as a fire (is quenched) with water ! I, 14. A woman's incantation against her rival. 1. I have taken unto myself her fortune and her glory, as a wreath off a tree. Like a mountain with broad foundation may she sit a long time with her parents ! 2. This woman shall be subjected to thee as thy wife, O king Yama; (till then) let her be fixed to the house of her mother, or her brother, or her father ! 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.
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