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Atharva Veda

Atharva Veda 1.28

Against sorcerers and witches

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Against sorcerers and witches

Hither hath come forth god Agni, demon-slayer, disease-expeller, burning away deceivers, sorcerers, kimīdíns.

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Burn against the sorcerers, against the kimīdíns, O god; burn up the sorceresses that meet thee, O black-tracked one.

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She that hath cursed with cursing, that hath taken malignity as her root (? mū́ra), that hath seized on [our] young to take its sap—let her eat [her own] offspring.

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Let the sorceress eat [her own] son, sister, and daughter (? naptī́); then let the horrid-haired sorceresses mutually destroy (vi-han) one another; let the hags (arāyī́) be shattered asunder.

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Sanskrit text: Oliver Hellwig, The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (DCS), 2010–2024. CC BY 4.0. · Source ↗

Sanskrit text from The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (DCS) by Oliver Hellwig, 2010–2024, https://github.com/OliverHellwig/sanskrit, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Changes: sentence parts joined per verse; only verses the DCS numbers within Whitney's verse count are included (3522).

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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