{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe42/av198.htm","path":"hin/sbe42/av198.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe42/av198.htm","text":"1. Fly forth from here, O evil mark, vanish from here, fly forth to yonder place! Upon him that hates us do we fasten thee with a brazen hook.\n 2. The unsavoury mark which flying has alighted upon me, as a creeper upon a tree, that mayest thou put away from us, away from here, O golden-handed\n (golden-rayed) Savitar (the sun), bestowing goods upon us!\n 3. Together with the body of the mortal, from his birth, one and a hundred marks are born. Those that are most foul do we drive away from here; the auspicious ones, O G\u00e2tavedas (Agni), do thou hold fast for us!\n 4. These (marks) here I have separated, as cows scattered upon the heather. The pure marks shall remain, the foul ones I have made to disappear!","title":"Atharva Veda: VIII. Charms In Expiation of Sin and Defilement: VII, 115. Charm for the removal of evil characteristics, and the acquisition of auspicious ones","type":"page"}