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Atharva Veda

Atharva Veda 19.45

With an ointment etc.: for various objects

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English · William Dwight Whitney

With an ointment etc.: for various objects

Bringing together witchcraft to the house of the witchcraft-maker, as it were debt from debt, do thou, O ointment, crush in the ribs of the hostile eye-conjurer.

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What evil-dreaming [is] in us, what in [our] kine, and what in our house, also the...of one hostile, let him that is unfriendly take upon himself (prati-muc).

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Increasing from the force of the refreshment of the waters, born out of Agni Jātavedas—may the ointment that is four-heroed, that is of the mountains, make the quarters, the directions, propitious to thee.

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The four-heroed ointment is bound to thee; be all the quarters free from fear for thee; firm shalt thou stand, like Savitar desirable; let these people (víças) render thee tribute.

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Use thou one as ointment; make one an amulet; bathe with one; drink one of them; let the four-heroed one protect us about from the four destructive bonds of seizure (grā́hi).

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Let Agni favor (av) me with fire (? agní), in order to breath, to expiration, to life-time, to splendor, to force, to brilliancy, to well-being, to welfare: hail!

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Let Soma favor me with what is Soma's (sāúmya), in order to breath etc. etc.

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Let Bhaga favor me with fortune (bhága), in order to breath etc. etc.

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Let the Maruts favor me with troops, in order to breath etc. etc.

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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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