Atharva Veda 1.2

Against injury and disease: with a reed

We know the reed's father, Parjanya the much-nourishing; and we know well its mother, the earth of many aspects.

O bow-string, bend about us; make thyself a stone; being hard, put very far away niggards [and] haters.

When the kine, embracing the tree, sing the quivering dexterous (ṝ ṛbhú) reed, keep away from us, O Indra, the shaft, the missile.

As between both heaven and earth stands the bamboo (? téjana), so let the reed-stalk (múñja) stand between both the disease and the flux (āsrāvá).