{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av039.htm","path":"hin/av/av039.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av039.htm","text":"1. This water (v\u00e2r) in the (river) Varan\u00e2vat\u00ee shall ward off (v\u00e2ray\u00e2tai)! Amrita (ambrosia) has been poured into it: with that do I ward off (v\u00e2raye) poison from thee.\n 2. Powerless is the poison from the east, powerless that from the north. Moreover the poison from the south transforms itself into a porridge.\n 3. Having made thee (the poison) that comes from a horizontal direction into a porridge, rich in fat, and cheering, from sheer hunger he has eaten thee, that hast an evil body: do thou not cause injury!\n 4. Thy bewildering quality (madam), O (plant?) that art bewildering (madivati), we cause to fall like a reed. As a boiling pot of porridge do we remove thee by (our) charm.\n 5. (Thee, O poison) that art, as it were, heaped about the village, do we cause to stand still by (our) charm. Stand still as a tree upon its place; do not, thou that hast been dug with the spade, cause injury!\n 6. With broom-straw (?), garments, and also with skins they purchased thee: a thing for barter art thou, O plant! Do not, thou that hast been dug with the spade, cause injury!\n 7. Those of you who were of yore unequalled in the deeds which they performed-may the), not injure here our men: for this very purpose do I engage you!","title":"Atharva Veda: I. Charms to Cure Diseases and Possession by Demons of Disease (Bhaishagykni): IV, 7. Charm against poison","type":"page"}