{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av05023.htm","path":"hin/av/av05023.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av05023.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1I have called Heaven and Earth to aid, have called divine\n \u00a0\u00a0Sarasvati,\n \u00a0\u00a0Indra and Agni have I called: Let these destroy the worm, I\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0prayed.\n 2O Indra, Lord of Treasures, kill the worms that prey upon this\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0boy.\n \u00a0\u00a0All the malignant spirits have been smitten by my potent spell. p. a185\n \u00a0\u00a0We utterly destroy the worm, the worm that creeps around the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0eyes.\n \u00a0\u00a0The worm that crawls about the nose, the worm that gets bet-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ween the teeth.\n 3Two of like colour, two unlike, two coloured black, two\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0coloured red.\n \u00a0\u00a0The tawny and the tawny-eared, Vulture and Wolf, all these\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0are killed.\n 4Worms that are white about the sides, those that are black with\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0black-hued arms,\n \u00a0\u00a0All that show various tints and hues, these worms we utterly\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0destroy.\n 5Eastward the Sun is mounting, seen of all, destroying thing\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0unseen,\n \u00a0\u00a0Crushing and killing all the worms invisible and visible.\n 6Let the Yev\u0101shas, Kaskashas, Ejatkas, Sipavitnukas,\n \u00a0\u00a0Let both the worm that we can see, and that we see not, be\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0destroyed.\n 7Slain the Yev\u0101sha of the worms, slain too is the Nadaniman.\n \u00a0\u00a0I have reduced them all to dust like vetches with the pounding-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0stone.\n 8The worm S\u0101ranga, white of hue, three-headed, with a triple\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0hump,\n \u00a0\u00a0I split and tear his ribs away, I wrench off every head he has.\n 9I kill you, worms, as Atri, as Kanva and Jamadagni killed.\n \u00a0\u00a0I crush the worms to pieces with a spell that erst Agastya used.\n 10The King of worms hath been destroyed, he who was lord of\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0these is slain.\n \u00a0\u00a0Slain is the worm whose mother, whose brother and sister have\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0been slain.\n 11Destroyed are his dependants, who those dwell around him are\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0destroyed,\n \u00a0\u00a0And all the worms that seem to be the little ones are done to\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0death\n 12Of every worm and insect, of the female and the male alike,\n \u00a0\u00a0I crush the head to pieces with a stone and burn the face with\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0fire.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 5: Hymn 23: A charm against parasitic ...","type":"page"}