{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av05022.htm","path":"hin/av/av05022.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av05022.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Hence, filled with holy strength let Agni, Soma, and Varuna,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the Press-stone, and the Altar.\n \u00a0\u00a0And Grass, and glowing Fuel banish Fever. Let hateful things\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0stay at a distance yonder.\n 2And thou thyself who makest all men yellow, consuming them\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0with burning heat like Agni,\n \u00a0\u00a0Thou, Fever! then be weak and ineffective. Pass hence into the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0realms below or vanish.\n 3Endowed with universal power! send Fever down-ward, far\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0away,\n \u00a0\u00a0The spotty, like red-coloured dust, sprung from a spotty\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ancestor.\n 4When I have paid obeisance to Fever I send him downward\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0forth.\n \u00a0\u00a0So let Sakambhara's boxer go again to the Mah\u0101vrishas.\n 5His mansions are the M\u016bjavans, and the Mah\u0101vrishas his home,\n \u00a0\u00a0Thou, Fever, ever since thy birth hast lived among the Bahlikas.\n 6Fever, snake, limbless one, speak out! Keep thyself far away\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0fi om us.\n \u00a0\u00a0Seek thou a wanton D\u0101st girl and strike her with thy thunder-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0bolt.\n 7Go, Fever, to the M\u016bjavans, or, farther, to the Bahlikas.\n \u00a0\u00a0Seek a lascivious Sara girl and seem to shake her through and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0through.\n 8Go hence and eat thy kinsmen the Mah\u0101vrishas and M\u016bjavans.\n \u00a0\u00a0These or those foreign regions we proclaim to Fever for his\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0home.\n 9In a strange land thou joyest not; subdued, thou wilt be kind\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0to us.\n \u00a0\u00a0Fever is eager to depart, and to the Bahlikas will go,\n 10Since thou now cold, now burning hot, with cough besides, hast\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0made us shake,\n \u00a0\u00a0Terrible, Fever, are thy darts: forbear to injure us with these.\n 11Take none of these to be thy friends, Cough, or Consumption\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0or Decline:\n \u00a0\u00a0Never come thence again to us! O Fever, thus I counsel thee.\n 12Go, Fever, with Consumption, thy brother, and with thy sister,\n \u00a0\u00a0Cough. p. a184\n \u00a0\u00a0And with thy nephew Herpes, go away unto that alien folk.\n 13Chase Fever whether cold or hot, brought by the summer or\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the rains,\n \u00a0\u00a0Tertian, intermittent, or autumnal, or continual.\n 14We to Gandh\u0101ris, M\u016bjavans, to Angas and to Magadhas.\n \u00a0\u00a0Hand over Fever as it were a servant and a thing of price.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 5: Hymn 22: A charm against fever","type":"page"}