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Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895], at

HYMN XLVI

A charm against evil dreams

1Thou, neither quick nor dead, O Sleep, art fraught with Amrit
  of the Gods.
 Thy name is Araru: thy sire is Yama; Varunāni bare thee.
2We know thy birth, O Sleep, thou art son of the sisters of the
 Gods; the minister of Yama thou, thou art Antaka, thou art
 Death.
 So well we know thee who thou art. Sleep, guard us from the
  evil dream.
3As men discharge a debt, as they pay up an eighth and half-an-
  eighth,
 So the whole evil dream do we pay and assign unto our foe.