{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av01023.htm","path":"hin/av/av01023.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av01023.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1O Plant, thou sprangest up at night, dusky, dark-coloured,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0black in hue! p. a22\n \u00a0\u00a0So, Rajani, re-colour thou these ashy spots, this leprosy.\n 2Expel the leprosy, remove from him the spots and ashy hue:\n \u00a0\u00a0Let thine own colour come to thee; drive far away the specks of\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0white.\n 3Dark is the place of thy repose, dark is the place thou dwellest\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0in:\n \u00a0\u00a0Dusky and dark, O Plant, art thou: remove from him each\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0speck and spot.\n 4I with my spell have chased away the pallid sign of leprosy,\n \u00a0\u00a0Caused by infection, on the skin, sprung from the body, from the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0bones.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 1: Hymn 23: A charm against leprosy","type":"page"}