{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av19036.htm","path":"hin/av/av19036.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av19036.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1The Hundred-haired hath banished hence fiends and Consump-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0tions by its might.\n \u00a0\u00a0With splendour hath the charm that scares demons of ill-name\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0mounted up.\n 2It drives off demons with its horns and sorceresses with its root,\n \u00a0\u00a0It stays Consumption with its waist: from this no wickedness\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0escapes.\n 3Consumptions, light and serious, and those which sounds\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0accompany,\n \u00a0\u00a0All these the Amulet, Hundred-haired, scarer of fiends, hath\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0banished hence.\n 4A hundred men hath it produced, hundred Consumptions chased\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0away,\n \u00a0\u00a0All fiends of evil-name it hath smitten, and shakes the\n \u00a0\u00a0R\u0101kshasas.\n 5The Bull that weareth horns of gold, this Amulet with hundred\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0hairs,\n \u00a0\u00a0Hath cleft the demons of ill-name and overcome the R\u0101kshasas.\n 6Hundred she-fiends, a hundred of Gandharvas and Apsarasas,\n \u00a0\u00a0A hundred of dog-mated nymphs, I keep away with Hundred-\n \u00a0\u00a0Hair","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 19: Hymn 36: A charm against disease and evil spirits","type":"page"}