{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av04037.htm","path":"hin/av/av04037.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av04037.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1With thee, O Plant, in olden time Atharvans smote and slew the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0fiends.\n \u00a0\u00a0Kasyapa smote with thee, with thee did Kanava and Agastya\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0smite.\n 2With thee we scare and drive away Gandharvas and Apsarases.\n \u00a0\u00a0O Ajasringi, chase the fiends. Cause all to vanish with thy\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0smell.\n 3Let the Apsarases, puffed away, go to the river, to the ford,\u2014\n \u00a0\u00a0Guggul\u016b, P\u012bl\u0101, Naladi, Aukshagandhi, Pramandini.\n \u00a0\u00a0Ye have become attentive since the Apsarases have past away.\n 4Where great trees are, Asvatthas and Nyagrodhas with their\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0leafy crests,\n \u00a0\u00a0There where your swings are green and bright, and lutes and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0cymbals sound in tune,\n \u00a0\u00a0'Ye have become attentive since the Apsarases have past away.\n 5Hither hath come this one, the most effectual of herbs and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0plants.\n 6Let Ajasringi penetrate, Ar\u01014aki with sharpened horn.\n 7From the Gandharva, dancing near, the lord of the Apsarases,\n \u00a0\u00a0Wearing the tuft of hair, I take all manhood and virility.\n 8With those dread hundred iron spears, the darts of Indra, let it\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0pierce.\n \u00a0\u00a0The Blyxa-fed Gandharvas, those who bring no sacrificial gift.\n 9With those dread hundred golden spears, the darts of Indra, let\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0it pierce. p. a148\n \u00a0\u00a0The Blyxa-fed Gandharvas, those who bring no sacrificial gift.\n 10O Plant, be thou victorious, crush the Pis\u0101chas, one and all,\n \u00a0\u00a0Blyxa-fed, shining in the floods, illumining the selfish ones.\n 11Youthful, completely decked with hair, one monkey-like, one\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0like a dog,\u2014\n \u00a0\u00a0So the Gandharva, putting on a lovely look, pursues a dame.\n \u00a0\u00a0Him with an efficacious charm we scare and cause to vanish\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0hence.\n 12Your wives are the Apsarases, and ye, Gandharvas, are their\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0lords.\n \u00a0\u00a0Run ye, immortal ones, away: forbear to interfere with men!","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 4: Hymn 37: A charm against Gandharvas and Apsarases","type":"page"}