{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av19034.htm","path":"hin/av/av19034.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av19034.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Jangida, thou art Angiras: thou art a guardian, Jangida.\n \u00a0\u00a0Let Jangida, keep safely all our bipeds and our quadrupeds.\n 2Dice-witcheries, the fifty-threes, the hundred witchcraft-practi-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0sers,\n \u00a0\u00a0All these may Jangida make weak, bereft of their effectual\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0force.\n 3Baffle the loud factitious howl, make impotent the seven decays.\n \u00a0\u00a0As when an archer speeds the shaft, drive away want, O\n \u00a0\u00a0Jangida,\n 4This counteracts the sorceress, this banishes malignity: Then\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0may victorious Jangida's prolong the days we have to live.\n 5Let Jangida's protecting might encompass us on every side.\n \u00a0\u00a0Wherewith he quells Vishkandha and Sanskandha, might by\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0greater might.\n 6Three times the Gods engendered thee fixt on the surface of the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0earth;\n \u00a0\u00a0The Br\u0101hmans of the olden time knew that thy name was\n \u00a0\u00a0Angiras;\n 7The ancient plants surpass thee not, nor any herbs of recent\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0days.\n \u00a0\u00a0A potent charm is Jangida, a most felicitous defence.\n 8Then when thou sprangest into life, Jangida of un-measured\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0strength,\n \u00a0\u00a0Indra, O mighty One, bestowed great power upon thee from the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0first. p. 240\n 9To thee in truth, O Forest Tree, Indra the mighty One gave\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0strength.\n \u00a0\u00a0Driving away all maladies, strike thou the demons down, O\n \u00a0\u00a0Plant.\n 10Lumbago and rheumatic pain, consumptive cough, and pleurisy,\n \u00a0\u00a0And fever which each Autumn brings, may Jangida make-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0powerless.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 19: Hymn 34: A protective charm addres...","type":"page"}