{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av053.htm","path":"hin/av/av053.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av053.htm","text":"1. The goddess Prisniparn\u00ee has prepared prosperity for us, mishap for Nirriti (the goddess of destruction). For she is a fierce devourer of the Kanvas: her, the mighty, have I employed.\n 2. The Prisniparn\u00ee was first begotten powerful; with her do I lop off the heads of the evil brood, as (the head) of a bird.\n 3. The blood-sucking demon, and him that tries to rob (our) health, Kanva, the devourer of our offspring, destroy, O Prisniparn\u00ee, and overcome!\n 4. These Kanvas, the effacers of life, drive into the mountain; go thou burning after them like fire, O goddess Prisniparn\u00ee!\n 5. Drive far away these Kanvas, the effacers of life! Where the dark regions are, there have I made these flesh-eaters go.","title":"Atharva Veda: I. Charms to Cure Diseases and Possession by Demons of Disease (Bhaishagykni): II, 25. Charm with the plant prisniparn\u00ee against the demon of disease, called kanva","type":"page"}