{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av032.htm","path":"hin/av/av032.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av032.htm","text":"1. The night is thy mother, the cloud thy father, Aryaman thy grandfather. Sil\u00e2k\u00ee, forsooth, is thy name, thou art the sister of the gods.\n 2. He that drinks thee lives; (that) person thou dost preserve. For thou art the supporter of all successive (generations), the refuge of men.\n 3. Every tree thou dost climb, like a wench lusting after a man. 'Victorious,' 'firmly founded,' 'saving,' verily, is thy name.\n 4. The wound that has been inflicted by the club, by the arrow, or by fire, of that thou art the cure: do thou cure this person here!\n 5. Upon the noble plaksha-tree (ficus infectoria) thou growest up, upon the asvattha (ficus religiosa), the khadira (acacia catechu), and the dhava (grislea tomentosa); (thou growest up) upon the noble nyagrodha (ficus indica, banyan-tree), and the parna (butea frondosa). Come thou to us, O arundhat\u00ee!\n 6. O gold-coloured, lovely, sun-coloured, most handsome (plant), mayest thou come to the fracture, O cure! 'Cure,' verily, is thy name!\n 7. O gold-coloured, lovely, fiery (plant), with hairy stem, thou art the sister of the waters, O l\u00e2ksh\u00e2, the wind became thy very breath.\n 8. Sil\u00e2k\u00ee is thy name, O thou that art brown as a goat, thy father is the son of a maiden. With the blood of the brown horse of Yama thou hast verily been sprinkled.\n 9. Having dropped from the blood of the horse she ran upon the trees, turning into a winged brook. Do thou come to us, O arundhat\u00ee!","title":"Atharva Veda: I. Charms to Cure Diseases and Possession by Demons of Disease (Bhaishagykni): V, 5. Charm with the plant sil\u00e2ki (l\u00e2ksh\u00e2, arundhat\u00ee) for the cure of wounds","type":"page"}