{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av02025.htm","path":"hin/av/av02025.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av02025.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1The Goddess Prisniparni hath blest us, and troubled Nirriti.\n \u00a0\u00a0Fierce crusher of the Kanvas she: her have I gained, the mighty\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0one.\n 2Victorious in the olden time this Prisniparni was brought forth:\n \u00a0\u00a0With her I cleave, as 'twere a bird's, the head of the Detestables. p. a52\n 4The hateful fiend who drinks the blood, and him who take away\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the growth,\n \u00a0\u00a0The Kanva who devours the germ, quell, Prisniparni! and!\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0destroy.\n 5Drive and imprison in a hill these Kanvas harassers of life:\n \u00a0\u00a0Follow them Prisniparni, thou Goddess, like fire consuming.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0them.\n 6Drive thou away these Kanvas, drive the harassers of life afar.\n \u00a0\u00a0Whither the shades of darkness go, I send the fiends who feed\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0on flesh.\nThere is no verse 3 in the copytext\u2014JBH","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 2: Hymn 25: A charm against fiends who cause abortion","type":"page"}