{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av04006.htm","path":"hin/av/av04006.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av04006.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1The Br\u0101hman first was brought to life ten-headed and with faces\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ten.\n \u00a0\u00a0First drinker of the Soma, he made poison ineffectual.\n 2Far as the heavens and earth are spread in compass, far as the\n \u00a0\u00a0Seven Rivers are extended,\n \u00a0\u00a0So far my spell, the antidote of poison, have I spoken hence,\n 3The strong-winged Bird Garutm\u0101n first of all, O Poison fed on\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thee:\n \u00a0\u00a0Thou didst not gripe or make him drunk: aye, thou becamest\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0food for him.\n 4Whoever with five fingers hath discharged thee from the crooked\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0bow,\n \u00a0\u00a0I from the shaft have charmed away the poison of the fastening\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0band.\n 5The poison have I charmed away from shaft, cement, and feather-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ed end;\n \u00a0\u00a0Yea, from the barb, the neck, the horn, the poison have I charmed\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0away.\n 6Feeble, O Arrow, is thy shaft, thy poison, too, hath lost its\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0strength.\n \u00a0\u00a0Made of a worthless tree, thy bow, O feeble one, is impotent.\n 7The men who brayed it, smeared it on, they who discharged it,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0sent it forth,\n \u00a0\u00a0All these are made emasculate, emasculate the poison-hill.\n 8Thy diggers are emasculate, emasculate, O, Plant art thou.\n \u00a0\u00a0The rugged mountain that produced this poison is emasculate.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 4: Hymn 6: A charm to make a poisoned arrow harmless","type":"page"}