{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av19057.htm","path":"hin/av/av19057.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av19057.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1As men discharge the utmost debt, collect the eighth and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0sixteenth part,\n \u00a0\u00a0So to the foeman we transfer together all the evil dream.\n 2Princes came together, debts came together, Kushthas came to-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0gether,\n \u00a0\u00a0Sixteenths came together. The whole evil dream that hath visited\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0us we send away as a bad dream to the man who hates us.\n 3Child of Gods' Consorts, minister of Yama is the good Dream:\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0that which is my trouble we drive away to the enemy.\n 4Thou whose name is Rough art the mouth of the Black Bird.\n \u00a0\u00a0As such we know thee, Dream, as such we know thee well. Like\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0a horse art thou, O Dream. As they bind girth and surcingle\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0on a horse, so bind the alien mischief-maker, the scorner of\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the Gods.\n 5The evil dream that threatens us, threatens our cattle or our\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0home.\n \u00a0\u00a0That let the scorner of the Gods, the alien mischief-maker bind\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0as a gold jewel round his neck.\n 6Having measured off nine cubits' distance from us we give away\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the whole of the evil dream to the man who hates us.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 19: Hymn 57: A charm against evil dreams","type":"page"}