{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av02014.htm","path":"hin/av/av02014.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av02014.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Forth from the hall the bold, the sharp, the greedy one, the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0single-voiced,\n \u00a0\u00a0Sad\u0101nv\u0101s, and all progeny of Chanda we exterminate.\n 2We drive you forth from cattle-shed, from axle, from within the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0wain,\n \u00a0\u00a0Ye daughters of Magundi, we frighten and chase you from out\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0homes.\n 3Yonder let the Ar\u0101yis dwell, there where that house is down\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0below.\n \u00a0\u00a0Let utter indigence and all the Y\u0101tudh\u0101nis settle there.\n 4May Bh\u016btapati drive away, and Indra, the Sad\u0101nv\u0101s hence.\n \u00a0\u00a0Let Indra with his bolt quell those who sit upon our dwelling's\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0floor.\n 5Whether ye be of farm and field, or whether ye be sent by men,\n \u00a0\u00a0Or be ye sprung from Dasyu race, vanish, Sad\u0101nv\u0101s, and begone.\n 6I have gone round their homes as runs a fleet-foot racer round\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the post,\n \u00a0\u00a0And in all races conquered you. Vanish, Sad\u0101nv\u0101s, and begone.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 2: Hymn 14: A charm to banish vermin and noxious creatures","type":"page"}