Atharva Veda 19.39

With kúṣṭha: against diseases

Let the heavenly rescuing kúṣṭha come hither from off the snowy [mountain]; do thou make vanish all takmán and all the sorceresses.

Three names are thine, O kúṣṭha: by-no-means-killing, by-no-means-harming:—by no means may this man take harm, for whom I bespeak (pari-brū) thee, at evening and in the morning, likewise by day.

"Lively" by name is thy mother; "living" by name is thy father:—by no means may etc. etc.

Thou art the highest (uttamá) of herbs, as the draft-ox of moving creatures (jágat), as the tiger of beasts of prey:—by no means may etc. etc.

Thrice from the Çāmbus, from the An̄girases, thrice from the Ādityas, thrice from the All-Gods art thou born; this all-healing kúṣṭha stands along with soma; do thou make vanish all the takmán and all the sorceresses.

The açvatthá, seat of the gods, in the third heaven from here: there [is] the sight (cákṣaṇa) of immortality; thence was born the kúṣṭha.

A golden ship, of golden tackle, moved about in the sky; there [is] the sight etc. etc.

Where there is no falling downward (?), where the head of the snowy [mountain], there is the sight of immortality; thence was born the kúṣṭha:—this all-healing kúṣṭha etc. etc. (as vs. 5).

Thou whom Ikshvāku of old knew, or thou whom Kushṭhakāmya [knew], whom Vāyasa, whom Mātsya—thereby art thou all-healing.

The head-paining, the tertian, ⌊and⌋ that which is constant, is hibernal—the takmán, O thou of power in every direction, do thou impel (sū) away downward.