{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av03007.htm","path":"hin/av/av03007.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av03007.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1The fleet-foot Roebuck wears upon his head a healing remedy.\n \u00a0\u00a0Innate disease he drives away to all directions with his horn.\n 2With his four feet the vigorous Buck hath bounded in pursuit of\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thee.\n \u00a0\u00a0Unbind the chronic sickness, Horn! deeply inwoven in the heart.\n 3That which shines younder, like a roof resting on four walls,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0down on us,\u2014 p. a73\n \u00a0\u00a0Therewith from out thy body we drive all the chronic malady,\n 4May those twin stars, auspicious, named Releasers, up in yonder\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0sky.\n \u00a0\u00a0Loose of the chronic malady the uppermost and lowest bond.\n 5Water, indeed, hath power to heal, Water drives malady away.\n \u00a0\u00a0May water\u2014for it healeth all\u2014free thee from permanent disease.\n 6Hath some prepared decoction brought inveterate disease on\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thee,\n \u00a0\u00a0I know the balm that healeth it: we drive the malady away.\n 7What time the starlight disappears, what time the gleams of\n \u00a0\u00a0Dawn depart,\n \u00a0\u00a0May evil fortune pass from us, the chronic sickness disappear.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 3: Hymn 7: A charm with an amulet of buck horn to drive away hereditary disease","type":"page"}