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Atharva Veda

Atharva Veda 1.23

Against leprosy: with a healing herb

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Against leprosy: with a healing herb

Night-born art thou, O herb, O dark, black, [and] dusky one; O colorer (rajanī), do thou color this leprous spot and what is pale (palitá).

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The leprous spot, what is pale, do thou cause to disappear from hence, the speckled; let thine own color enter thee; make white things (çuklá) fly away.

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Dusky is thy hiding-place, dusky thy station (āsthā́na); dusky art thou, O herb; make the speckled disappear from hence.

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English · William Dwight Whitney

Of the bone-born leprous spot, and of the body-born that is in the skin, of that made by the spoiler (dū́ṣi)—by incantation have I made the white (çvetá) mark disappear.

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W. D. Whitney's literal translation (1905), Books I–XIX. Words in ⌊half-brackets⌋ are his own notes and cross-references to his edition; a few verses he gives only in outline.

William Dwight Whitney (tr.), Atharva-Veda Saṁhitā, revised and edited by Charles Rockwell Lanman, Harvard Oriental Series 7–8 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University, 1905). Public domain. Transcribed and proofread from the scans by English Wikisource volunteers; translation only (critical notes omitted). · Source ↗

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