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1. Let me become a conqueror of cattle, horses, wealth, and gold ! 9. O dice, yield play, profitable as a cow that is rich in milk ! Bind me to a streak of gain, as the bow (is bound) with the string! VI, 56. Exorcism of serpents from the premises. 1. May the serpent, ye gods, not slay us along with our children and our men ! The closed (jaw) 152 HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA. shall not snap open, the open one not close ! Rever- ence (be) to the divine folk ! 2. Reverence be to the black serpent, reverence to the one that is striped across ! To the brown sva^a reverence ; reverence to the divine folk ! 3. I clap thy teeth upon thy teeth, and also thy jaw upon thy jaw ; I press thy tongue against thy tongue, and close up, O serpent, thy mouth. X, 4. Charm against serpents, invoking the horse of Pedu that slays serpents. 1. To Indra belongs the first chariot, to the gods the second chariot, to Varu^a, forsooth, the third. The serpents' chariot is the last : it shall hit a post, and come to grief ! 2. The young darbha-grass burns (the serpents ?), the tail of the horse, the tail of the shaggy one, the seat of the wagon (burns the serpents ?). 3. Strike down, O white (horse), with thy fore- foot and thy hind-foot ! As timber floating in water, the poison of the serpents, the fierce fluid, is devoid of strength. 4. Neighing loudly he dived down, and, again diving up, said : ' As timber floating in water, the poison of the serpents, the fierce fluid, is devoid of strength/ 5. The horse of Pedu slays the kasanzila, the horse of Pedu slays the white (serpent), and also the black. The horse of Pedu cleaves the head of the ratharvi, the adder. 6. O horse of Pedu, go thou first : we come after thee ! Thou shalt cast out the serpents from the road upon which we come ! 7. Here the horse of Pedu was born ; from here VII. CHARMS TO SECURE PROSPERITY. 1 53 is his departure. Here are the tracks of the serpent- killing, powerful steed ! 8. May the closed (serpent's jaw) not snap open, may the open one not close ! The two serpents in this field, man and wife, they are both bereft of strength. 9. Without strength here are the serpents, those that are near, and those that are far. With a club do I slay the vrzs/Aka, (scorpion), with a staff the serpent that has approached. 10. Here is the remedy for both the aghasva and the sva^a! Indra (and) Pedus horse have put to naught the evil-planning (aghayantam) serpent. 11.
2those that are far. With a club do I slay the vrzs/Aka, (scorpion), with a staff the serpent that has approached. 10. Here is the remedy for both the aghasva and the sva^a! Indra (and) Pedus horse have put to naught the evil-planning (aghayantam) serpent. 11. The horse of Pedu do we remember, the strong, with strong footing: behind lie, staring forth, these adders. 12. Deprived are they of life's spirit, deprived of poison, slain by Indra with his bolt. Indra hath slain them : we have slain them. 1 3. Slain are they that are striped across, crushed are the adders! Slay thou the one that produces a hood, (slay) the white and the black in the darbha- grass ! 14. The maiden of the Kirata-tribe, the little one digs up the remedy, with golden spades, on the mountain's back. 15. Hither has come a youthful physician: he slays the speckled (serpent), is irresistible. He, forsooth, crushes the sva^a and the vrzs&ika. both. 16. Indra did set at naught for me the serpent, (and so did) Mitra and Varima, Vata and Par^anya both. 17. Indra did set at naught for me the serpent, the adder, male and female, the sva^a, (the serpent) 154 HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA. that is striped across, the kasar/dla, and the dasonasi. 1 8. Indra slew thy first ancestor, O serpent, and since they are crushed, what strength, forsooth, can be theirs ? 19. I have gathered up their heads, as the fisher- man the karvara (fish). I have gone off into the rivers midst, and washed out the serpent's poison. 20. The poison of all serpents the rivers shall carry off! Slain are they that are striped across, crushed are the adders ! 21. As skilfully I cull the fibre of the plants, as I guide the mares, (thus), O serpent, shall thy poison go away ! 22. The poison that is in the fire, in the sun, in the earth, and in the plants, the kanda-poison, the kanaknaka, thy poison shall go forth, and come ! 23. The serpents that are sprung from the fire, that are sprung from the plants, that are sprung from the water, and originate from the lightning ; they from whom great brood has sprung in many ways, those serpents do we revere with obeisance. 24. Thou art, (O plant), a maiden, Taudi by name ; Ghrzta/H, forsooth, is thy name. Underfoot is thy place : I take in hand what destroys the poison. 25. From every limb make the poison start ; shut it out from the heart ! Now the force that is in thy poison shall go down below ! 26. The poison has gone to a distance : he has shut it out ; he has fused the poison with poison.
3what destroys the poison. 25. From every limb make the poison start ; shut it out from the heart ! Now the force that is in thy poison shall go down below ! 26. The poison has gone to a distance : he has shut it out ; he has fused the poison with poison. Agni has put away the poison of the serpent, Soma has led it out. The poison has gone back to the biter. The serpent is dead ! VII. CHARMS TO SECURE PROSPERITY. 1 55 XI, 2. Prayer to Bhava and 6arva for protection from dangers. 1. O Bhava and 6arva, be merciful, do not attack (us) ; ye lords of beings, lords of cattle, reverence be to you twain ! Discharge not your arrow even after it has been laid on (the bow), and has been drawn! Destroy not our bipeds and our quadrupeds ! 2. Prepare not our bodies for the dog, or the jackal ; for the aliklavas, the vultures, and the black birds ! Thy greedy insects, O lord of cattle (pasu- pate), and thy birds shall not get us to devour ! 3. Reverence we offer, O Bhava, to thy roaring, to thy breath, and to thy injurious qualities ; reverence to thee, O Rudra, thousand-eyed, im- mortal ! 4. We offer reverence to thee from the east, from the north, and from the south ; from (every) domain, and from heaven. Reverence be to thy atmosphere ! 5. To thy face, O lord of cattle, to thy eyes, O Bhava, to thy skin, to thy form, thy appearance, (and to thy aspect) from behind, reverence be ! 6. To thy limbs, to thy belly, to thy tongue, to thy mouth, to thy teeth, to thy smell (nose), reverence be ! 7. May we not conflict with Rudra, the archer with the dark crest, the thousand-eyed, powerful one, the slayer of Ardhaka ! 8. Bhava shall steer clear from us on all sides, Bhava shall steer clear from us, as fire from water ! May he not bear malice towards us : reverence be to him ! 9. Four times, eight times, be reverence to Bhava, I56 HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA. ten times be reverence to thee, O lord of cattle ! To thy (charge) have been assigned these five (kinds of) cattle : cows, horses, men, goats and sheep. 10. Thine, O strong god (ugra), are the four regions, thine the sky, thine the earth, and thine this broad atmosphere; thine is this all that has a spirit and has breath upon the earth. 1 1. Thine is this broad, treasure-holding receptacle within which all worlds are contained. Do thou spare us, O lord of cattle : reverence be to thee ! Far from us shall go the jackals, evil omens, dogs ; far shall go (the mourning women) who bewail mis- fortune with dishevelled hair ! 12.
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.
1. Let me become a conqueror of cattle, horses, wealth, and gold ! 9. O dice, yield play, profitable as a cow that is rich in milk ! Bind me to a streak of gain, as the bow (is bound) with the string! VI, 56. Exorcism of serpents from the premises. 1. May the serpent, ye gods, not slay us along with our children and our men ! The closed (jaw) 152 HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA. shall not snap open, the open one not close ! Rever- ence (be) to the divine folk ! 2. Reverence be to the black serpent, reverence to the one that is striped across ! To the brown sva^a reverence ; reverence to the divine folk ! 3. I clap thy teeth upon thy teeth, and also thy jaw upon thy jaw ; I press thy tongue against thy tongue, and close up, O serpent, thy mouth. X, 4. Charm against serpents, invoking the horse of Pedu that slays serpents. 1. To Indra belongs the first chariot, to the gods the second chariot, to Varu^a, forsooth, the third. The serpents' chariot is the last : it shall hit a post, and come to grief ! 2. The young darbha-grass burns (the serpents ?), the tail of the horse, the tail of the shaggy one, the seat of the wagon (burns the serpents ?). 3. Strike down, O white (horse), with thy fore- foot and thy hind-foot ! As timber floating in water, the poison of the serpents, the fierce fluid, is devoid of strength. 4. Neighing loudly he dived down, and, again diving up, said : ' As timber floating in water, the poison of the serpents, the fierce fluid, is devoid of strength/ 5. The horse of Pedu slays the kasanzila, the horse of Pedu slays the white (serpent), and also the black. The horse of Pedu cleaves the head of the ratharvi, the adder. 6. O horse of Pedu, go thou first : we come after thee ! Thou shalt cast out the serpents from the road upon which we come ! 7. Here the horse of Pedu was born ; from here VII. CHARMS TO SECURE PROSPERITY. 1 53 is his departure. Here are the tracks of the serpent- killing, powerful steed ! 8. May the closed (serpent's jaw) not snap open, may the open one not close ! The two serpents in this field, man and wife, they are both bereft of strength. 9. Without strength here are the serpents, those that are near, and those that are far. With a club do I slay the vrzs/Aka, (scorpion), with a staff the serpent that has approached. 10. Here is the remedy for both the aghasva and the sva^a! Indra (and) Pedus horse have put to naught the evil-planning (aghayantam) serpent. 11.
2those that are far. With a club do I slay the vrzs/Aka, (scorpion), with a staff the serpent that has approached. 10. Here is the remedy for both the aghasva and the sva^a! Indra (and) Pedus horse have put to naught the evil-planning (aghayantam) serpent. 11. The horse of Pedu do we remember, the strong, with strong footing: behind lie, staring forth, these adders. 12. Deprived are they of life's spirit, deprived of poison, slain by Indra with his bolt. Indra hath slain them : we have slain them. 1 3. Slain are they that are striped across, crushed are the adders! Slay thou the one that produces a hood, (slay) the white and the black in the darbha- grass ! 14. The maiden of the Kirata-tribe, the little one digs up the remedy, with golden spades, on the mountain's back. 15. Hither has come a youthful physician: he slays the speckled (serpent), is irresistible. He, forsooth, crushes the sva^a and the vrzs&ika. both. 16. Indra did set at naught for me the serpent, (and so did) Mitra and Varima, Vata and Par^anya both. 17. Indra did set at naught for me the serpent, the adder, male and female, the sva^a, (the serpent) 154 HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA. that is striped across, the kasar/dla, and the dasonasi. 1 8. Indra slew thy first ancestor, O serpent, and since they are crushed, what strength, forsooth, can be theirs ? 19. I have gathered up their heads, as the fisher- man the karvara (fish). I have gone off into the rivers midst, and washed out the serpent's poison. 20. The poison of all serpents the rivers shall carry off! Slain are they that are striped across, crushed are the adders ! 21. As skilfully I cull the fibre of the plants, as I guide the mares, (thus), O serpent, shall thy poison go away ! 22. The poison that is in the fire, in the sun, in the earth, and in the plants, the kanda-poison, the kanaknaka, thy poison shall go forth, and come ! 23. The serpents that are sprung from the fire, that are sprung from the plants, that are sprung from the water, and originate from the lightning ; they from whom great brood has sprung in many ways, those serpents do we revere with obeisance. 24. Thou art, (O plant), a maiden, Taudi by name ; Ghrzta/H, forsooth, is thy name. Underfoot is thy place : I take in hand what destroys the poison. 25. From every limb make the poison start ; shut it out from the heart ! Now the force that is in thy poison shall go down below ! 26. The poison has gone to a distance : he has shut it out ; he has fused the poison with poison.
3what destroys the poison. 25. From every limb make the poison start ; shut it out from the heart ! Now the force that is in thy poison shall go down below ! 26. The poison has gone to a distance : he has shut it out ; he has fused the poison with poison. Agni has put away the poison of the serpent, Soma has led it out. The poison has gone back to the biter. The serpent is dead ! VII. CHARMS TO SECURE PROSPERITY. 1 55 XI, 2. Prayer to Bhava and 6arva for protection from dangers. 1. O Bhava and 6arva, be merciful, do not attack (us) ; ye lords of beings, lords of cattle, reverence be to you twain ! Discharge not your arrow even after it has been laid on (the bow), and has been drawn! Destroy not our bipeds and our quadrupeds ! 2. Prepare not our bodies for the dog, or the jackal ; for the aliklavas, the vultures, and the black birds ! Thy greedy insects, O lord of cattle (pasu- pate), and thy birds shall not get us to devour ! 3. Reverence we offer, O Bhava, to thy roaring, to thy breath, and to thy injurious qualities ; reverence to thee, O Rudra, thousand-eyed, im- mortal ! 4. We offer reverence to thee from the east, from the north, and from the south ; from (every) domain, and from heaven. Reverence be to thy atmosphere ! 5. To thy face, O lord of cattle, to thy eyes, O Bhava, to thy skin, to thy form, thy appearance, (and to thy aspect) from behind, reverence be ! 6. To thy limbs, to thy belly, to thy tongue, to thy mouth, to thy teeth, to thy smell (nose), reverence be ! 7. May we not conflict with Rudra, the archer with the dark crest, the thousand-eyed, powerful one, the slayer of Ardhaka ! 8. Bhava shall steer clear from us on all sides, Bhava shall steer clear from us, as fire from water ! May he not bear malice towards us : reverence be to him ! 9. Four times, eight times, be reverence to Bhava, I56 HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA. ten times be reverence to thee, O lord of cattle ! To thy (charge) have been assigned these five (kinds of) cattle : cows, horses, men, goats and sheep. 10. Thine, O strong god (ugra), are the four regions, thine the sky, thine the earth, and thine this broad atmosphere; thine is this all that has a spirit and has breath upon the earth. 1 1. Thine is this broad, treasure-holding receptacle within which all worlds are contained. Do thou spare us, O lord of cattle : reverence be to thee ! Far from us shall go the jackals, evil omens, dogs ; far shall go (the mourning women) who bewail mis- fortune with dishevelled hair ! 12.
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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