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1, O sin ; go into the vapours, and into the fog ! Lose thyself on the foam of the river! Wipe off, O Pushan, the misdeeds upon him that practiseth abortion ! 3. Deposited in twelve places is that which has been wiped off TVzta/the sins belonging to humanity. Hence if Grahi has seized thee, may these gods remove her by means of their charm ! VI, 120. Prayer for heaven after remission of sins. i. If air, or earth and heaven, if mother or father, we have injured, may this Agni Garhapatya (house- hold fire) without fail lead us out from this (crime) to the world of well-doing ! 1 66 HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA. 2. The earth is our mother, Aditi (the universe) our kin, the air our protector from hostile schemes. May father sky bring prosperity to us from the world of the Fathers ; may I come to my (departed) kin, and not lose heaven ! 3. In that bright world where our pious friends live in joy, having cast aside the ailments of their own bodies, free from lameness, not deformed in limb, there may we behold our parents and our children ! VI, 27. Charm against pigeons regarded as ominous birds. 1. O ye gods, if the pigeon, despatched as the messenger of Nirrzti (the goddess of destruction), hath come here seeking (us out), we shall sing his praises, and prepare (our) ransom. May our two- footed and four-footed creatures be prosperous ! 2. Auspicious to us shall be the pigeon that has been despatched ; harmless, ye gods, the bird shall be to our house ! The sage Agni shall verily take pleasure in our oblation ; the winged missile shall avoid us ! 3. The winged missile shall not do us injury: upon our hearth, our fireplace he (the pigeon) takes his steps ! Propitious he shall be to our cattle and our domestics ; may not, ye gods, the pigeon here do harm to us ! VI, 29. Charm against ominous pigeons and owls. 1. Upon those persons yonder the winged missile shall fall ! If the owl shrieks, futile shall this be, or if the pigeon takes his steps upon the fire ! VIII. CHARMS IN EXPIATION OF SIN ETC. 1 67 2. To thy two messengers, O Nirrzti, who come here, despatched or not despatched, to our house, to the pigeon and to the owl, this shall be no place to step upon! 3. He shall not fly hither to slaughter (our) men ; to keep (our) men sound he shall settle here ! Charm him very far away unto a distant region, that (people) shall behold you (i. e. him) in Yama's house devoid of strength, that they shall behold you bereft of power ! VII, 64. Expiation when one is defiled by a black bird of omen. 1.
2ll settle here ! Charm him very far away unto a distant region, that (people) shall behold you (i. e. him) in Yama's house devoid of strength, that they shall behold you bereft of power ! VII, 64. Expiation when one is defiled by a black bird of omen. 1. What this black bird flying forth towards (me) has dropped here — may the waters protect me from all that misfortune and evil ! 2. What this black bird has brushed here with thy mouth, O Nirrzti (goddess of misfortune) — may Agni Garhapatya (the god of the household fire) free me from this sin ! VI, 46. Exorcism of evil dreams. 1. Thou who art neither alive nor dead, the immortal child of the gods art thou, O Sleep ! Varu^anl is thy mother, Yama (death) thy father, Araru is thy name. 2. We know, O Sleep, thy birth, thou art the son of the divine women-folk, the instrument of Yama (death) ! Thou art the ender, thou art death ! Thus do we know thee, O Sleep : do thou, O Sleep, protect us from evil dreams ! 3. As one pays off a sixteenth, an eighth, or an (entire) debt, thus do we transfer every evil dream upon our enemy. 1 68 HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA. VII, 115. Charm for the removal of evil character- istics, and the acquisition of auspicious ones. 1. Fly forth from here, O evil mark, vanish from here, fly forth to yonder place ! Upon him that hates us do we fasten thee with a brazen hook. 2. The unsavoury mark which flying has alighted upon me, as a creeper upon a tree, that mayest thou put away from us, away from here, O golden-handed (golden-rayed) Savitar (the sun), bestowing goods upon us ! 3. Together with the body of the mortal, from his birth, one and a hundred marks are born. Those that are most foul do we drive away from here ; the auspicious ones, O £atavedas (Agni), do thou hold fast for us ! 4. These (marks) here I have separated, as cows scattered upon the heather. The pure marks shall remain, the foul ones I have made to disappear ! IX. PRAYERS AND IMPRECATIONS IN THE INTEREST OF THE BRAHMANS. V, 1 8. Imprecation against the oppressors of Brahmans. i. The gods, O king, did not give to thee this (cow) to eat. Do not, O prince, seek to devour the cow of the Brahma^a, which is unfit to be eaten ! 2. The prince, beguiled by dice, the wretched one who has lost as a stake his own person, he may, perchance, eat the cow of the Brahma^a, (thinking), ' let me live to-day (if) not to-morrow ' ! 3.
3evour the cow of the Brahma^a, which is unfit to be eaten ! 2. The prince, beguiled by dice, the wretched one who has lost as a stake his own person, he may, perchance, eat the cow of the Brahma^a, (thinking), ' let me live to-day (if) not to-morrow ' ! 3. Enveloped (is she) in her skin, as an adder with evil poison ; do not, O prince, (eat the cow) of the Brahma^a : sapless, unfit to be eaten, is that cow ! 4. Away does (the Brahma^a) take regal power, destroys vigour ; like fire which has caught does he burn away everything. He that regards the Brahma^a as fit food drinks of the poison of the taimata-serpent. 5. He who thinks him (the Brahman) mild, and slays him, he who reviles the gods, lusts after wealth, without thought, in his heart Indra kindles a fire ; him both heaven and earth hate while he lives. 6. The Brahma^a must not be encroached upon, 17O HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA. any more than fire, by him that regards his own body! For Soma is his (the Br&hma^as) heir, Indra protects him from hostile plots. 7. He swallows her (the cow), bristling with a hundred hooks, (but) is unable to digest her, he, the fool who, devouring the food of the Brahmans, thinks, * I am eating a luscious (morsel)/ 8. (The Brahmans) tongue turns into a bow- string, his voice into the neck of an arrow; his windpipe, his teeth are bedaubed with holy fire : with these the Brahman strikes those who revile the gods, by means of bows that have the strength to reach the heart, discharged by the gods. 9. The Brahma^as have sharp arrows, are armed with missiles, the arrow which they hurl goes not in vain ; pursuing him with their holy fire and their wrath, even from afar, do they pierce him. 10. They who ruled over a thousand, and were themselves ten hundred, the Vaitahavya, when they devoured the cow of the Brahma/za, perished. 11. The cow herself, when slaughtered, came down upon the Vaitahavyas, who had roasted for themselves the last she-goat of Kesaraprabandha. 12. The one hundred and one persons whom the earth did cast off, because they had injured the offspring of a Brahma/za, were ruined irretrievably. 13. As a reviler of the gods does he live among mortals, having swallowed poison, he becomes more bone (than flesh). He that injureth a Br£hma/za, whose kin are the gods, does not reach heaven by the road of the Fathers. 14. Agni is called our guide, Soma our heir, Indra slays those who curse (us): that the strong (sages) know. IX. PRAYERS AND IMPRECATIONS FOR BRAHMANS. 171 15.
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, O sin ; go into the vapours, and into the fog ! Lose thyself on the foam of the river! Wipe off, O Pushan, the misdeeds upon him that practiseth abortion ! 3. Deposited in twelve places is that which has been wiped off TVzta/the sins belonging to humanity. Hence if Grahi has seized thee, may these gods remove her by means of their charm ! VI, 120. Prayer for heaven after remission of sins. i. If air, or earth and heaven, if mother or father, we have injured, may this Agni Garhapatya (house- hold fire) without fail lead us out from this (crime) to the world of well-doing ! 1 66 HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA. 2. The earth is our mother, Aditi (the universe) our kin, the air our protector from hostile schemes. May father sky bring prosperity to us from the world of the Fathers ; may I come to my (departed) kin, and not lose heaven ! 3. In that bright world where our pious friends live in joy, having cast aside the ailments of their own bodies, free from lameness, not deformed in limb, there may we behold our parents and our children ! VI, 27. Charm against pigeons regarded as ominous birds. 1. O ye gods, if the pigeon, despatched as the messenger of Nirrzti (the goddess of destruction), hath come here seeking (us out), we shall sing his praises, and prepare (our) ransom. May our two- footed and four-footed creatures be prosperous ! 2. Auspicious to us shall be the pigeon that has been despatched ; harmless, ye gods, the bird shall be to our house ! The sage Agni shall verily take pleasure in our oblation ; the winged missile shall avoid us ! 3. The winged missile shall not do us injury: upon our hearth, our fireplace he (the pigeon) takes his steps ! Propitious he shall be to our cattle and our domestics ; may not, ye gods, the pigeon here do harm to us ! VI, 29. Charm against ominous pigeons and owls. 1. Upon those persons yonder the winged missile shall fall ! If the owl shrieks, futile shall this be, or if the pigeon takes his steps upon the fire ! VIII. CHARMS IN EXPIATION OF SIN ETC. 1 67 2. To thy two messengers, O Nirrzti, who come here, despatched or not despatched, to our house, to the pigeon and to the owl, this shall be no place to step upon! 3. He shall not fly hither to slaughter (our) men ; to keep (our) men sound he shall settle here ! Charm him very far away unto a distant region, that (people) shall behold you (i. e. him) in Yama's house devoid of strength, that they shall behold you bereft of power ! VII, 64. Expiation when one is defiled by a black bird of omen. 1.
2ll settle here ! Charm him very far away unto a distant region, that (people) shall behold you (i. e. him) in Yama's house devoid of strength, that they shall behold you bereft of power ! VII, 64. Expiation when one is defiled by a black bird of omen. 1. What this black bird flying forth towards (me) has dropped here — may the waters protect me from all that misfortune and evil ! 2. What this black bird has brushed here with thy mouth, O Nirrzti (goddess of misfortune) — may Agni Garhapatya (the god of the household fire) free me from this sin ! VI, 46. Exorcism of evil dreams. 1. Thou who art neither alive nor dead, the immortal child of the gods art thou, O Sleep ! Varu^anl is thy mother, Yama (death) thy father, Araru is thy name. 2. We know, O Sleep, thy birth, thou art the son of the divine women-folk, the instrument of Yama (death) ! Thou art the ender, thou art death ! Thus do we know thee, O Sleep : do thou, O Sleep, protect us from evil dreams ! 3. As one pays off a sixteenth, an eighth, or an (entire) debt, thus do we transfer every evil dream upon our enemy. 1 68 HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA. VII, 115. Charm for the removal of evil character- istics, and the acquisition of auspicious ones. 1. Fly forth from here, O evil mark, vanish from here, fly forth to yonder place ! Upon him that hates us do we fasten thee with a brazen hook. 2. The unsavoury mark which flying has alighted upon me, as a creeper upon a tree, that mayest thou put away from us, away from here, O golden-handed (golden-rayed) Savitar (the sun), bestowing goods upon us ! 3. Together with the body of the mortal, from his birth, one and a hundred marks are born. Those that are most foul do we drive away from here ; the auspicious ones, O £atavedas (Agni), do thou hold fast for us ! 4. These (marks) here I have separated, as cows scattered upon the heather. The pure marks shall remain, the foul ones I have made to disappear ! IX. PRAYERS AND IMPRECATIONS IN THE INTEREST OF THE BRAHMANS. V, 1 8. Imprecation against the oppressors of Brahmans. i. The gods, O king, did not give to thee this (cow) to eat. Do not, O prince, seek to devour the cow of the Brahma^a, which is unfit to be eaten ! 2. The prince, beguiled by dice, the wretched one who has lost as a stake his own person, he may, perchance, eat the cow of the Brahma^a, (thinking), ' let me live to-day (if) not to-morrow ' ! 3.
3evour the cow of the Brahma^a, which is unfit to be eaten ! 2. The prince, beguiled by dice, the wretched one who has lost as a stake his own person, he may, perchance, eat the cow of the Brahma^a, (thinking), ' let me live to-day (if) not to-morrow ' ! 3. Enveloped (is she) in her skin, as an adder with evil poison ; do not, O prince, (eat the cow) of the Brahma^a : sapless, unfit to be eaten, is that cow ! 4. Away does (the Brahma^a) take regal power, destroys vigour ; like fire which has caught does he burn away everything. He that regards the Brahma^a as fit food drinks of the poison of the taimata-serpent. 5. He who thinks him (the Brahman) mild, and slays him, he who reviles the gods, lusts after wealth, without thought, in his heart Indra kindles a fire ; him both heaven and earth hate while he lives. 6. The Brahma^a must not be encroached upon, 17O HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA. any more than fire, by him that regards his own body! For Soma is his (the Br&hma^as) heir, Indra protects him from hostile plots. 7. He swallows her (the cow), bristling with a hundred hooks, (but) is unable to digest her, he, the fool who, devouring the food of the Brahmans, thinks, * I am eating a luscious (morsel)/ 8. (The Brahmans) tongue turns into a bow- string, his voice into the neck of an arrow; his windpipe, his teeth are bedaubed with holy fire : with these the Brahman strikes those who revile the gods, by means of bows that have the strength to reach the heart, discharged by the gods. 9. The Brahma^as have sharp arrows, are armed with missiles, the arrow which they hurl goes not in vain ; pursuing him with their holy fire and their wrath, even from afar, do they pierce him. 10. They who ruled over a thousand, and were themselves ten hundred, the Vaitahavya, when they devoured the cow of the Brahma/za, perished. 11. The cow herself, when slaughtered, came down upon the Vaitahavyas, who had roasted for themselves the last she-goat of Kesaraprabandha. 12. The one hundred and one persons whom the earth did cast off, because they had injured the offspring of a Brahma/za, were ruined irretrievably. 13. As a reviler of the gods does he live among mortals, having swallowed poison, he becomes more bone (than flesh). He that injureth a Br£hma/za, whose kin are the gods, does not reach heaven by the road of the Fathers. 14. Agni is called our guide, Soma our heir, Indra slays those who curse (us): that the strong (sages) know. IX. PRAYERS AND IMPRECATIONS FOR BRAHMANS. 171 15.
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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