{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av08006.htm","path":"hin/av/av08006.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av08006.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Let neither fiend of evil name, Alinsa, Vatsapa, desire\n \u00a0\u00a0Thy pair of husband-wooers which thy mother cleansed when,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thou wast born.\n 2Palala, Anupalala, Sarku, Koka, Malimlucha, Palijaka Vavri-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0v\u0101sas and Asresha, Rikshagriva and Pramilin.\n 3Approach not, come not hitherward: creep not thou in-between\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0her thighs.\n \u00a0\u00a0I set, to guard her, Baja, that which chases him of evil name. p. a337\n 4Durn\u0101m\u0101 and Sun\u0101m\u0101 both are eager to converse with her.\n \u00a0\u00a0We drive away Ar\u0101yas: let Sun\u0101m\u0101 seek the women-folk,\n 5The black and hairy Asura, and Stambaja and Tundika,\n \u00a0\u00a0Ar\u0101yas from this girl we drive, from bosom, waist, and parts\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0below.\n 6Sniffer, and Feeler, him who eats raw flesh, and him who licks\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0his lips,\n \u00a0\u00a0Ar\u0101yas with the tails of dogs, the yellow Baja hath destroyed.\n 7Whoever, in thy brother's shape or father's comes to thee in\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0sleep,\n \u00a0\u00a0Let Baja rout and chase them like eunuchs with woman's head-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0dress on.\n 8Whoever steals to thee asleep or thinks to harm thee when\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0awake,\u2014\n \u00a0\u00a0These hath it banished, as the Sun travelling round drives shade\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0away.\n 9Whoever causeth her to lose her child or bear untimely fruit,\u2014\n \u00a0\u00a0Destroy him, O thou Plant, destroy the slippery fiend who lusts\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0for her.\n 10Those who at evening, with the bray of asses, dance around the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0house, Kukshilas, and Kusfilas, and Kakubhas, Srimas,\n \u00a0\u00a0Karumas,\n \u00a0\u00a0These with thine odour, O thou Plant, drive far away to every\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0side.\n 11Kukundhas and Kuk\u016brabhas who dress themselves in hides and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0skins,\n \u00a0\u00a0Who dance about like eunuchs, who raise a wild clamour in the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0wood, all these we banish far away.\n 12All those who cannot bear the Sun who warms us yonder from\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the sky,\n \u00a0\u00a0Ar\u0101yas with the smell of goats, malodorous, with bloody mouths,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the Makakas we drive afar.\n 13All those who on their shoulders bear a head of monstrous\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0magnitude,\n \u00a0\u00a0Who pierce the women's loins with pain,\u2014those demons, Indra\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0drive away!\n 14Those, bearing horns upon their hands, who first of all approach\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the brides;\n \u00a0\u00a0Standing in ovens, laughing loud, those who in bushes flash forth\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0light, all these we banish hence away. p. a338\n 15Those who have retroverted toes, and heels and faces in the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0front,\n \u00a0\u00a0Khalajas, Sakadh\u016bmajas, Urundas, all the Matmatas, impotent\n \u00a0\u00a0Kumbhamushkas, these,\n \u00a0\u00a0Drive thou, O Br\u0101hmanaspati, far from this girl with vigilance.\n 16Sightless and with distorted eyes, impotent. woman less be they.\n \u00a0\u00a0O Healing Plant, cast each away who, not her husband, would\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0approach this woman wedded to her lord.\n 17The Bristly-haired, the Maniac-haired, the Biter, and the\n \u00a0\u00a0Groper-fiend,\n \u00a0\u00a0The Creeper-near, the Copper-hued, the Snouty, and the Saluda,\n \u00a0\u00a0With foot and heel kick over, as a hasty cow her milking-pan.\n 18If one should touch thy coming babe or kill thine infant newly\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0born,\n \u00a0\u00a0The yellow Plant with mighty bow shall pierce him even to the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0heart.\n 19Those who kill infants unawares, and near the new-made mothers\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0lie,\n \u00a0\u00a0Let Pinga chase the amorous Gandharvas as wind chases cloud.\n 20Let it maintain the genial seed: let the laid embryo rest secure.\n \u00a0\u00a0Let both strong Healers, to be worn within the girdle, guard the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0babe.\n 21From the Kim\u012bdin, for thy lord and children, Pinga shield thee\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0well,\n \u00a0\u00a0From S\u0101yaka, and Nagnaka, Tangalva, and Pav\u012bnasa.\n 22From the five-footed, fingerless, from the four-eyed, the double-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0faced,\n \u00a0\u00a0From the Close-creeper, from the Worm, from the Quick-roller\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0guard her well.\n 23Those who eat flesh uncooked, and those who eat the bleeding\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0flesh of men,\n \u00a0\u00a0Feeders on babes unborn, long-haired, far from this place we\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0banish these.\n 24Shy slinkers from the Sun, as slinks a woman from her husband's\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0sire,\n \u00a0\u00a0Deep down into the heart of these let Baja and let Pinga pierce.\n 25Pinga, preserve the babe at birth, make not the boy a female\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0child.\n \u00a0\u00a0Let not Egg-eaters mar the germs: drive the Kimidins far away. p. a339\n 26Sterility, and infants' death, and weeping that announceth\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0woe,\n \u00a0\u00a0Dear! lay them on the fiend as thou wouldst pluck a garland\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0from a tree.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 8: Hymn 6: A charm to exercise evil spirits who beset women","type":"page"}