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1th 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. This woman shall be the keeper of thy house, O king (Yama), and her do we make over to thee ! May she long sit with her relatives, until (her hair) drops from her head ! 4. With the incantation of Asita, of Ka^yapa, and of Gaya do I cover up thy fortune, as women cover (something) within a chest. Ill, 18. Charm of a woman against a rival or co-wife. 1. I dig up this plant, of herbs the most potent, by whose power rival women are overcome, and husbands are obtained. IOS HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA. 2. O thou (plant) with erect leaves, lovely, do thou, urged on by the gods, full of might, drive away my rival, make my husband mine alone ! 3. He did not, forsooth, call thy name, and thou shalt not delight in this husband ! To the very farthest distance do we drive our rival. 4. Superior am I, O superior (plant), superior, truly, to superior (women). Now shall my rival be inferior to those that are inferior ! 5. I am overpowering, and thou, (O plant), art completely overpowering. Having both grown full of power, let us overpower my rival ! 6. About thee (my husband) I have placed the overpowering (plant), upon thee placed the very overpowering one. May thy mind run after me as a calf after the cow, as water along its course ! VI, 138. Charm for depriving a man of his virility. 1. As the best of the plants thou art reputed, O herb : turn this man for me to-day into a eunuch that wears his hair dressed ! 2. Turn him into a eunuch that wears his hair dressed, and into one that wears a hood ! Then Indra with a pair of stones shall break his testicles both! 3. O eunuch, into a eunuch thee I have turned ; O castrate, into a castrate thee I have turned ; O weakling, into a weakling thee I have turned ! A hood upon his head, and a hair-net do we place. 4. The two canals, fashioned by the gods, in which man's power rests, in thy testicles I break them with a club. IV. CHARMS PERTAINING TO WOMEN. IO9 5. As women break reeds for a mattress with a stone, thus do I break thy member I, 18. Charm to remove evil bodily characteristics from a woman. 1. The (foul) mark, the lalami (with spot on the forehead), the Arati (grudging demon), do we drive out.
25. As women break reeds for a mattress with a stone, thus do I break thy member I, 18. Charm to remove evil bodily characteristics from a woman. 1. The (foul) mark, the lalami (with spot on the forehead), the Arati (grudging demon), do we drive out. Then the (signs) that are auspicious (shall remain) with us ; (yet) to beget offspring do we bring the Arati ! 2. May Savitar drive out uncouthness from her feet, may Vanma, Mitra, and Aryaman (drive it) out from her hands ; may Anumati kindly drive it out for us ! For happiness the gods have created this woman. 3. The fierceness that is in thyself, in thy body, or in thy look, all that do we strike away with our charm. May god Savitar prosper thee ! 4. The goat-footed, the bull-toothed, her who scares the cattle, the snorting one, the vilid/ti (the driveling one), the lalami (with spot on the fore- head), these do we drive from us. VI, no. Expiatory charm for a child born under an unlucky star. 1. Of yore, (O Agni), thou wast worthy of sup- plication at the sacrifice ; thou wast the priest in olden times, and now anew shalt sit (at our sacrifice) ! Delight, O Agni, thy own body, and, sacrificing, bring good fortune here to us ! 2. Him that hath been born under the (constella- tion) ^yesh/^aghni ('she that slays the oldest'), or IIO HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA. under the viirztau ('they that uproot'), save thou from being torn up by the root by Yama (death) ! May he (Agni) guide him across all misfortunes to long life, to a life of a hundred autumns ! 3. On a tiger (-like) day the hero was born ; born under a (good) constellation he becometh a mighty hero. Let him not slay, when he grows up, his father, let him not injure the mother that hath begotten him! VI, 140. Expiation for the irregular appearance of the first pair of teeth. 1. Those two teeth, the tigers, that have broken forth, eager to devour father and mother, do thou, O Brahma/zaspati Gatavedas, render auspicious ! 2. Do ye eat rice, eat barley, and eat, too, beans, as well as sesamum ! That, O teeth, is the share deposited for your enrichment. Do not injure father and mother ! 3. Since ye have been invoked, O teeth, be ye in unison kind and propitious ! Elsewhere, O teeth, shall pass away the fierce (qualities) of your body ! Do not injure father and mother! CHARMS PERTAINING TO ROYALTY (RAGAKARMAM). IV, 8. Prayer at the consecration of a king. i. Himself prosperous (bhftto), he does put strength into the beings (bhuteshu) ; he became the chief lord of the beings (bhutanam).
3body ! Do not injure father and mother! CHARMS PERTAINING TO ROYALTY (RAGAKARMAM). IV, 8. Prayer at the consecration of a king. i. Himself prosperous (bhftto), he does put strength into the beings (bhuteshu) ; he became the chief lord of the beings (bhutanam). To his consecration death does come : may he, the king, favour this kingdom ! 2. Come forth hither — do not glance away — as a mighty guardian, slayer of enemies ! Step hither, thou who prosperest thy friends : the gods shall bless thee ! 3. As he did step hither all (men) did attend him. Clothed in grace, he moves, shining by his own lustre. This is the great name of the manly Asura ; endowed with every form (quality) he entered upon immortal (deeds). 4. Thyself a tiger, do thou upon this tiger-skin stride (victorious) through the great regions! All the clans shall wish for thee, and the heavenly waters, rich in sap ! 5. The heavenly waters, rich in sap, flow joyously, (and too) those in the sky and upon the earth : with the lustre of all of these do I sprinkle thee. 6. They have sprinkled thee with their lustre, the heavenly waters rich in sap. May Savitar thus fashion thee, that thou shalt prosper thy friends ! 112 HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA. 7. (The waters) thus embracing him, the tiger, promote him, the lion, to great good fortune. Him, the leopard in the midst of the waters, as though standing in the ocean, the beneficent (floods, or the vigorous priests) cleanse thoroughly ! Ill, 3. Charm for the restoration of an exiled king. 1. (Agni) has shouted loud: may he here well perform his work ! Spread thyself out, O Agni, over the far-reaching hemispheres of the world ! The all- possessing Maruts shall engage thee : bring hither that (king) who devoutly spends the offering ! 2. However far he be, the red (steeds) shall urge hither Indra, the seer, to friendship, since the gods, (chanting) for him the gayatri, the brzhati, and the arka (songs), infused courage into him with the sautrama/rf-sacrifice ! 3. From the waters king Varu^a shall call thee, Soma shall call thee from the mountains, Indra shall cite thee to these clans ! Turn into an eagle and fly to these clans ! 4. An eagle shall bring hither from a distance him that is fit to be called, (yet) wanders exiled in a. strange land ! The Asvins shall prepare for thee a path, easy to travel ! Do ye, his kinfolk, gather close about him ! 5. Thy opponents shall call thee ; thy friends have chosen thee ! Indra, Agni, and all the gods have kept prosperity with this people. 6.
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.
1th 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. This woman shall be the keeper of thy house, O king (Yama), and her do we make over to thee ! May she long sit with her relatives, until (her hair) drops from her head ! 4. With the incantation of Asita, of Ka^yapa, and of Gaya do I cover up thy fortune, as women cover (something) within a chest. Ill, 18. Charm of a woman against a rival or co-wife. 1. I dig up this plant, of herbs the most potent, by whose power rival women are overcome, and husbands are obtained. IOS HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA. 2. O thou (plant) with erect leaves, lovely, do thou, urged on by the gods, full of might, drive away my rival, make my husband mine alone ! 3. He did not, forsooth, call thy name, and thou shalt not delight in this husband ! To the very farthest distance do we drive our rival. 4. Superior am I, O superior (plant), superior, truly, to superior (women). Now shall my rival be inferior to those that are inferior ! 5. I am overpowering, and thou, (O plant), art completely overpowering. Having both grown full of power, let us overpower my rival ! 6. About thee (my husband) I have placed the overpowering (plant), upon thee placed the very overpowering one. May thy mind run after me as a calf after the cow, as water along its course ! VI, 138. Charm for depriving a man of his virility. 1. As the best of the plants thou art reputed, O herb : turn this man for me to-day into a eunuch that wears his hair dressed ! 2. Turn him into a eunuch that wears his hair dressed, and into one that wears a hood ! Then Indra with a pair of stones shall break his testicles both! 3. O eunuch, into a eunuch thee I have turned ; O castrate, into a castrate thee I have turned ; O weakling, into a weakling thee I have turned ! A hood upon his head, and a hair-net do we place. 4. The two canals, fashioned by the gods, in which man's power rests, in thy testicles I break them with a club. IV. CHARMS PERTAINING TO WOMEN. IO9 5. As women break reeds for a mattress with a stone, thus do I break thy member I, 18. Charm to remove evil bodily characteristics from a woman. 1. The (foul) mark, the lalami (with spot on the forehead), the Arati (grudging demon), do we drive out.
25. As women break reeds for a mattress with a stone, thus do I break thy member I, 18. Charm to remove evil bodily characteristics from a woman. 1. The (foul) mark, the lalami (with spot on the forehead), the Arati (grudging demon), do we drive out. Then the (signs) that are auspicious (shall remain) with us ; (yet) to beget offspring do we bring the Arati ! 2. May Savitar drive out uncouthness from her feet, may Vanma, Mitra, and Aryaman (drive it) out from her hands ; may Anumati kindly drive it out for us ! For happiness the gods have created this woman. 3. The fierceness that is in thyself, in thy body, or in thy look, all that do we strike away with our charm. May god Savitar prosper thee ! 4. The goat-footed, the bull-toothed, her who scares the cattle, the snorting one, the vilid/ti (the driveling one), the lalami (with spot on the fore- head), these do we drive from us. VI, no. Expiatory charm for a child born under an unlucky star. 1. Of yore, (O Agni), thou wast worthy of sup- plication at the sacrifice ; thou wast the priest in olden times, and now anew shalt sit (at our sacrifice) ! Delight, O Agni, thy own body, and, sacrificing, bring good fortune here to us ! 2. Him that hath been born under the (constella- tion) ^yesh/^aghni ('she that slays the oldest'), or IIO HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA. under the viirztau ('they that uproot'), save thou from being torn up by the root by Yama (death) ! May he (Agni) guide him across all misfortunes to long life, to a life of a hundred autumns ! 3. On a tiger (-like) day the hero was born ; born under a (good) constellation he becometh a mighty hero. Let him not slay, when he grows up, his father, let him not injure the mother that hath begotten him! VI, 140. Expiation for the irregular appearance of the first pair of teeth. 1. Those two teeth, the tigers, that have broken forth, eager to devour father and mother, do thou, O Brahma/zaspati Gatavedas, render auspicious ! 2. Do ye eat rice, eat barley, and eat, too, beans, as well as sesamum ! That, O teeth, is the share deposited for your enrichment. Do not injure father and mother ! 3. Since ye have been invoked, O teeth, be ye in unison kind and propitious ! Elsewhere, O teeth, shall pass away the fierce (qualities) of your body ! Do not injure father and mother! CHARMS PERTAINING TO ROYALTY (RAGAKARMAM). IV, 8. Prayer at the consecration of a king. i. Himself prosperous (bhftto), he does put strength into the beings (bhuteshu) ; he became the chief lord of the beings (bhutanam).
3body ! Do not injure father and mother! CHARMS PERTAINING TO ROYALTY (RAGAKARMAM). IV, 8. Prayer at the consecration of a king. i. Himself prosperous (bhftto), he does put strength into the beings (bhuteshu) ; he became the chief lord of the beings (bhutanam). To his consecration death does come : may he, the king, favour this kingdom ! 2. Come forth hither — do not glance away — as a mighty guardian, slayer of enemies ! Step hither, thou who prosperest thy friends : the gods shall bless thee ! 3. As he did step hither all (men) did attend him. Clothed in grace, he moves, shining by his own lustre. This is the great name of the manly Asura ; endowed with every form (quality) he entered upon immortal (deeds). 4. Thyself a tiger, do thou upon this tiger-skin stride (victorious) through the great regions! All the clans shall wish for thee, and the heavenly waters, rich in sap ! 5. The heavenly waters, rich in sap, flow joyously, (and too) those in the sky and upon the earth : with the lustre of all of these do I sprinkle thee. 6. They have sprinkled thee with their lustre, the heavenly waters rich in sap. May Savitar thus fashion thee, that thou shalt prosper thy friends ! 112 HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA. 7. (The waters) thus embracing him, the tiger, promote him, the lion, to great good fortune. Him, the leopard in the midst of the waters, as though standing in the ocean, the beneficent (floods, or the vigorous priests) cleanse thoroughly ! Ill, 3. Charm for the restoration of an exiled king. 1. (Agni) has shouted loud: may he here well perform his work ! Spread thyself out, O Agni, over the far-reaching hemispheres of the world ! The all- possessing Maruts shall engage thee : bring hither that (king) who devoutly spends the offering ! 2. However far he be, the red (steeds) shall urge hither Indra, the seer, to friendship, since the gods, (chanting) for him the gayatri, the brzhati, and the arka (songs), infused courage into him with the sautrama/rf-sacrifice ! 3. From the waters king Varu^a shall call thee, Soma shall call thee from the mountains, Indra shall cite thee to these clans ! Turn into an eagle and fly to these clans ! 4. An eagle shall bring hither from a distance him that is fit to be called, (yet) wanders exiled in a. strange land ! The Asvins shall prepare for thee a path, easy to travel ! Do ye, his kinfolk, gather close about him ! 5. Thy opponents shall call thee ; thy friends have chosen thee ! Indra, Agni, and all the gods have kept prosperity with this people. 6.
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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