{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av07074.htm","path":"hin/av/av07074.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av07074.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Black is the mother, we have heard, from whom the red-hued\n \u00a0\u00a0Pustules sprang.\n \u00a0\u00a0With the divine ascetic's root I pierce and penetrate them all.\n 2I pierce the foremost one of these, I perforate the middlemost,\n \u00a0\u00a0And here I cut the hindermost asunder like a lock of hair.\n 3With spell that Tvashtar sent to us I have dispelled thy jealousy.\n \u00a0\u00a0We mitigate and pacify the anger that thou feltest, Lord!\n 4Lord of religious rites, by law, anointed, shine thou forth here\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0for ever friendly-minded.\n \u00a0\u00a0So may we all with children, J\u0101tavedas! worship and humbly\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0wait on thee enkindled.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 7: Hymn 74: A charm to cure pustules, sores, or scrofulous swellings (apachitas)","type":"page"}