{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av196.htm","path":"hin/av/av196.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av196.htm","text":"1. What this black bird flying forth towards (me) has dropped here--may the waters protect me from all that misfortune and evil!\n 2. What this black bird has brushed here with thy mouth, O Nirtiti (goddess of misfortune)-may Agni G\u00e2rhapatya (the god of the household fire) free me from this sin!","title":"Atharva Veda: VIII. Charms In Expiation of Sin and Defilement: VII, 64. Expiation when one is defiled by a black bird of omen","type":"page"}