{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av07076.htm","path":"hin/av/av07076.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av07076.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Rapidly dropping, quick to drop, more evil than the evil ones,\n \u00a0\u00a0More sapless than a dried-up bone, swifter than salt to melt\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0away.\n 2Pustules that rise upon the neck, Pustules upon the shoulder-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0joints,\n \u00a0\u00a0Pustules that, falling of themselves, spring up on every twofold\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0limb:\n 3I have expelled and banished all Scrofula harboured in the head,\n \u00a0\u00a0And that which bores the breast-bone through, and that which\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0settles in the sole.\n 4Scrofula flies borne on by wings: it penerates and holds the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0man.\n \u00a0\u00a0Here is the cure of either kind, the chronic and the transient.\n 5We know thine origin, Scrofula! know whence thou, Scrofula,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0art born.\n \u00a0\u00a0How hast thou then struck this man here, him in whose house\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0we sacrifice?\n 6Boldly drink Soma from the beaker, Indra! hero in war for\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0treasure! Vritra-slayer.\n \u00a0\u00a0Fill thyself full at the mid-day libation: thyself possessing riches\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0grant us riches.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 7: Hymn 76: A charm to cure scrofulous...","type":"page"}