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Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895], at
1Each pain and ache that racks the head, earache, and erysipelas,.
All malady that wrings thy brow we charm away with this our
spell.
2From both thine ears, from parts thereof, thine earache, and the
throbbing pain,
All malady that wrings thy brow we charm away with this our
spell.
3So that Consumption may depart forth from thine ears and from.
thy mouth,
All malady that wrings thy brow we charm away with this our
spell.
4The malady that makes one deaf, the malady that makes one
blind,
All malady that wrings thy brow we charm away with this our
spell.
5The throbbing pain in all thy limbs that rends thy frame with
fever-throes,
All malady that wrings thy brow we charm away with this our
spell.
6The malady whose awful look makes a man quiver with alarm,
Fever whom every Autumn brings we charm away with this our
spell. p. a380
7Disease that creeps about the thighs and, after, reaches both the
groins,
Consumption from thine inward parts we charm away with this
our spell.
8If the disease originates from love, from hatred, from the heart,
Forth from the heart and from the limbs we charm the wasting
malady.
9The yellow Jaundice from thy limbs, and Colic from the parts
within,
And Phthisis from thine inward soul we charm away with this
our spell.
10Let wasting malady turn to dust, become the water of disease.
I have evoked the poison-taint of all Consumptions out of thee.
11Forth from the hollow let it run, and rumbling sounds from
thine inside.
I have evoked the poison-taint of all Consumptions out of thee.
12Forth from thy belly and thy lungs, forth from thy navel and
thy heart.
I have evoked the poison taint of all Consumptions out of thee.
13The penetrating stabs of pain which rend asunder crown and
head,
Let them depart and pass away, free from disease and harming
not.
14The pangs that stab the heart and reach the breast-bone and
connected parts,
Let them depart and pass away, free from disease and harming
not.
15The stabs that penetrate the sides and pierce their way along the
ribs,
Let them depart and pass away, free from disease and harming
not.
16The penetrating pangs that pierce thy stomach as they shoot
across,
Let them depart and pass away, free from disease and harming
not.
17The pains that through the bowels creep, disordering the inward
parts,
Let them depart and pass away, free from disease and harming
not. p. a381
18The pains that suck the marrow out, and rend and tear the bones
apart,
May they speed forth and pass away, free from disease and
harming not.
19Consumptions with their Colic pains which make thy limbs
insensible
I have evoked the poison-taint of all Consumptions out of thee.
20Of piercing pain, of abscesses, rheumatic ache, ophthalmia—
I have evoked the poison-taint of all Consumptions out of thee.
21I have dispelled the piercing pains from feet, knees, hips, and
hinder parts,
And spine, and from the neck and nape the malady that racked
the head.
22Sound are the skull-bones of thy head and thy heart's beat is
regular.
Thou, Sun, arising with thy beams hast chased away the head's
disease, hast stilled the pain that racked the limbs.