{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av19044.htm","path":"hin/av/av19044.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av19044.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Thou art the lengthening of life, thy name is Universal Cure:\n \u00a0\u00a0Then, Ointment! send felicity; Waters, send happiness and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0peace.\n 2The yellow hue, the feverish heat, the shooting pain that rends II\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the limbs,\n \u00a0\u00a0All the consumptive malady let the Ointment drive from out\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thy frame.\n 3Let the Salve born upon the earth, benignant, giving life to man.\n \u00a0\u00a0Make the swift rider on the car sinless, exempt from sudden\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0death.\n 4Preserve our breath, O Vital Breath, have mercy on our life, O\n \u00a0\u00a0Life.\n \u00a0\u00a0From snares of Nirriti do thou, O Nirriti, deliver us.\n 5Thou art the babe of Sindhu, thou art lightnings' flower, wind,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0breath, and Sun: thou art the eye and milk of heaven.\n 6Gods' Ointment from the Three Peaked Hill, preserve thou me\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0on every side.\n \u00a0\u00a0No plants of earth surpass thee, none from mountain or from\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0cultured ground.\n 7Now hath it gently crept within, fiend-slaying, chasing malady.\n \u00a0\u00a0And driving all diseases hence, and evil omens, banished them.\n 8Full many a falsehood, O thou King Varuna, man hath uttered\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0here:\n \u00a0\u00a0Do thou who hast a thousand powers preserve us from that\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0misery. p. 247\n 9If we have cried, O Waters! Cows! if we have cried, O\n \u00a0\u00a0Varuna!\n \u00a0\u00a0For this endowed with thousand powers! deliver us from\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0misery.\n 10Mitra and Varuna, O Salve have closely followed after thee\n \u00a0\u00a0May they, when they have followed thee afar, restore thee for\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0our use.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 19: Hymn 44: A curative and protective charm","type":"page"}