{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av04007.htm","path":"hin/av/av04007.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av04007.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1So may this water guard us on the bank of Varan\u0101vati.\n \u00a0\u00a0Therein hath Amrit been infused: with that I ward thy poison\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0off.\n 2Weak is the poison of the East, weak is the poison of the North,\n \u00a0\u00a0So too this poison of the South counts as a cake of curds and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0meal.\n 3When he hath made of thee a cake, broad, steaming, swelling up\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0with fat,\n \u00a0\u00a0And even in hunger eaten thee, then gripe him not, thou hideous\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0one!\n 4Intoxicater! like a shaft we make thy spirit fly away, Like a pot\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0boiling on the fire, we with our word remove thee hence.\n 5We set around thee with the spell as 'twere a gathered arma-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ment.\n \u00a0\u00a0Stay quiet like a rooted tree. Dug up with mattocks, gripe not\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thou.\n 6For coverings men have bartered thee, for skins of deer and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0woven cloths.\n \u00a0\u00a0Thou art a thing of sale, O Plant. Dug up with mattocks, gripe\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0not thou!\n 7None have attained to those of old, those who wrought holy acts\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0for you.\n \u00a0\u00a0Let them not harm our heroes here. Therefore I set before you\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0this.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 4: Hymn 7: A charm to make a poisonous...","type":"page"}