{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av02008.htm","path":"hin/av/av02008.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av02008.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Twin Stars of happy omen, named Releasers, have gone up.\n \u00a0\u00a0May they\n \u00a0\u00a0Loose, of inherited disease, the uppermost and lowest bond.\n 2Vanish this Night, extinct in Dawn! Let those who weave their\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0spells depart.\n \u00a0\u00a0So let the plague-destroying Plant remove inherited disease.\n 3With straw of barley tawny-brown in colour with its silvery ears,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0with stalk and stem of Sesamum-\n \u00a0\u00a0So let the plague-destroying Plant remove inherited disease.\n 4Let homage to thy ploughs be paid, our homage to the pole and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0yokes.\n \u00a0\u00a0So let the plague-destroying Plant remove inherited disease.\n 5Homage to men with blinking eyes, homage to those who hear\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and act! To the Field's Lord be homage paid.\n \u00a0\u00a0So let the plague-destroying Plant remove inherited disease.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 2: Hymn 8: A charm against hereditary disease (kshetriya)","type":"page"}