{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av03018.htm","path":"hin/av/av03018.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av03018.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1From out the earth I dig this Plant, and herb of most effectual\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0power,\n \u00a0\u00a0Wherewith one quells the rival wife and gains the husband for\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0one's self.\n 2Auspicious, with expanded leaves, sent by the Gods, victorious\n \u00a0\u00a0Plant,\n \u00a0\u00a0Drive thou, the rival wife away, and make my husband only\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0mine.\n 3Indeed he hath not named her name: thou with this husband\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0dalliest not,\n \u00a0\u00a0Far into distance most remote we drive the rival wife away. p. a88\n 4Stronger am I, O stronger one, yea, mightier than the mightier;\n \u00a0\u00a0Beneath me be my rival wife, down, lower than the lowest\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0dames!\n 5I am the conqueror, and thou, thou also art victorious:\n \u00a0\u00a0As victory attends us both we will subdue my fellowwife.\n 6I've girt thee with the conquering Plant, beneath thee laid the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0mightiest one.\n \u00a0\u00a0As a cow hastens to her calf, so let thy spirit speed to me,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0hasten like water on its way.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 3: Hymn 18: A jealous wife's incantation against a rival","type":"page"}