{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av09008.htm","path":"hin/av/av09008.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av09008.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Each pain and ache that racks the head, earache, and erysipelas,.\n \u00a0\u00a0All malady that wrings thy brow we charm away with this our\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0spell.\n 2From both thine ears, from parts thereof, thine earache, and the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0throbbing pain,\n \u00a0\u00a0All malady that wrings thy brow we charm away with this our\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0spell.\n 3So that Consumption may depart forth from thine ears and from.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thy mouth,\n \u00a0\u00a0All malady that wrings thy brow we charm away with this our\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0spell.\n 4The malady that makes one deaf, the malady that makes one\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0blind,\n \u00a0\u00a0All malady that wrings thy brow we charm away with this our\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0spell.\n 5The throbbing pain in all thy limbs that rends thy frame with\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0fever-throes,\n \u00a0\u00a0All malady that wrings thy brow we charm away with this our\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0spell.\n 6The malady whose awful look makes a man quiver with alarm,\n \u00a0\u00a0Fever whom every Autumn brings we charm away with this our\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0spell. p. a380\n 7Disease that creeps about the thighs and, after, reaches both the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0groins,\n \u00a0\u00a0Consumption from thine inward parts we charm away with this\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0our spell.\n 8If the disease originates from love, from hatred, from the heart,\n \u00a0\u00a0Forth from the heart and from the limbs we charm the wasting\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0malady.\n 9The yellow Jaundice from thy limbs, and Colic from the parts\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0within,\n \u00a0\u00a0And Phthisis from thine inward soul we charm away with this\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0our spell.\n 10Let wasting malady turn to dust, become the water of disease.\n \u00a0\u00a0I have evoked the poison-taint of all Consumptions out of thee.\n 11Forth from the hollow let it run, and rumbling sounds from\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thine inside.\n \u00a0\u00a0I have evoked the poison-taint of all Consumptions out of thee.\n 12Forth from thy belly and thy lungs, forth from thy navel and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thy heart.\n \u00a0\u00a0I have evoked the poison taint of all Consumptions out of thee.\n 13The penetrating stabs of pain which rend asunder crown and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0head,\n \u00a0\u00a0Let them depart and pass away, free from disease and harming\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0not.\n 14The pangs that stab the heart and reach the breast-bone and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0connected parts,\n \u00a0\u00a0Let them depart and pass away, free from disease and harming\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0not.\n 15The stabs that penetrate the sides and pierce their way along the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ribs,\n \u00a0\u00a0Let them depart and pass away, free from disease and harming\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0not.\n 16The penetrating pangs that pierce thy stomach as they shoot\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0across,\n \u00a0\u00a0Let them depart and pass away, free from disease and harming\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0not.\n 17The pains that through the bowels creep, disordering the inward\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0parts,\n \u00a0\u00a0Let them depart and pass away, free from disease and harming\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0not. p. a381\n 18The pains that suck the marrow out, and rend and tear the bones\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0apart,\n \u00a0\u00a0May they speed forth and pass away, free from disease and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0harming not.\n 19Consumptions with their Colic pains which make thy limbs\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0insensible\n \u00a0\u00a0I have evoked the poison-taint of all Consumptions out of thee.\n 20Of piercing pain, of abscesses, rheumatic ache, ophthalmia\u2014\n \u00a0\u00a0I have evoked the poison-taint of all Consumptions out of thee.\n 21I have dispelled the piercing pains from feet, knees, hips, and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0hinder parts,\n \u00a0\u00a0And spine, and from the neck and nape the malady that racked\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the head.\n 22Sound are the skull-bones of thy head and thy heart's beat is\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0regular.\n \u00a0\u00a0Thou, Sun, arising with thy beams hast chased away the head's\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0disease, hast stilled the pain that racked the limbs.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 9: Hymn 8: A charm for the cure of various diseases connected with Consumption","type":"page"}