{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av04017.htm","path":"hin/av/av04017.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av04017.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1We seize and hold thee, Conquering One! the queen of medi-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0cines that heal.\n \u00a0\u00a0O Plant, I have endowed thee with a hundred powers for every\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0man,\n 2Still conquering, banishing the curse, mighty, with thy reverted.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0bloom.\n \u00a0\u00a0Thee and all Plants have I invoked: Hence let it save us! was\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0my prayer.\n 3She who hath cursed us with a curse, or hath conceived a\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0murderous sin,\n \u00a0\u00a0Or seized our son to take his blood, may she devour the child\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0she bare.\n 4What magic they have wrought for thee in dish unbaked or\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0burnt dark-red,\n \u00a0\u00a0What they have wrought in flesh undressed,\u2014conquer the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0sorcerers therewith.\n 5Ill dream and wretchedness of life, R\u0101kshasa, monster, stingy\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0hags,\n \u00a0\u00a0All the she-fiends of evil name and voice, we drive away from\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0us.\n 6Death caused by famine, caused by thirst, failure of children,.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0loss of kine,\n \u00a0\u00a0With thee, O Ap\u0101m\u0101rga, all this ill we cleanse and wipe away.\n 7Death caused by thirst, death caused by stress of hunger, loss at\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0play with dice,\n \u00a0\u00a0All this, O Ap\u0101m\u0101rga with thine aid we cleanse and wipe away.\n 8The Ap\u0101m\u0101rga is alone the sovran of all Plants that grow.\n \u00a0\u00a0With this we wipe away whate'er hath fallen on thee: go in\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0health!","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 4: Hymn 17: A charm to secure freedom from various evils","type":"page"}