{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av04018.htm","path":"hin/av/av04018.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av04018.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1The moonlight equalleth the sun, night is the rival of the day.\n \u00a0\u00a0I make effectual power my help: let magic arts be impotent.\n 2Gods! if one make and bring a spell on some man's house who\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0knows it not,\n \u00a0\u00a0Close as the calf that sucks the cow may it revert and cling to\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0him.\n 3When one puts poison in a dish of unbaked clay to kill a man,\n \u00a0\u00a0It cracks when set upon the fire with the sharp sound of many\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0stones.\n 4Endowed with thousand powers! adjure the bald and those with\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0necks awry.\n \u00a0\u00a0Back to its author turn the spell like a dear damsel to her\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0friend!\n 5I with this Plant have ruined all malignant powers of witchery.\n \u00a0\u00a0The spell which they have laid upon thy field, thy cattle, or thy\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0men.\n 6No power had he who wrought the spell: he hurt his foot, he\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0broke his toe.\n \u00a0\u00a0His act hath brought us happiness and pain and sorrow to him-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0self.\n 7Let Ap\u0101m\u0101rga sweep away chronic disease and every curse,\n \u00a0\u00a0Sweep sorceresses clean away, and all malignant stingy hags.\n 8Sweep thou away the sorcerers, all stingy fiendish hags away.\n \u00a0\u00a0All this, O Ap\u0101m\u0101rga, with thine aid we wipe away from us.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 4: Hymn 18: A counter-charm against the incantations of enemies","type":"page"}