aghadviṣṭā devajātā vīrucchapathayopanī āpo malam iva prāṇaikṣīt sarvān macchapathāṁ adhi
Against curses and cursers: with a plant
Hated by mischief, god-born, the curse-effacing plant hath washed away from me all curses, as waters do filth.
Atharva Veda
Against curses and cursers: with a plant
aghadviṣṭā devajātā vīrucchapathayopanī āpo malam iva prāṇaikṣīt sarvān macchapathāṁ adhi
Against curses and cursers: with a plant
Hated by mischief, god-born, the curse-effacing plant hath washed away from me all curses, as waters do filth.
yaś ca sāpatnaḥ śapatho jāmyāḥ śapathaś ca yaḥ brahmā yan manyutaḥ śapāt sarvaṃ tan no adhaspadam
Both the curse that is a rival's, and the curse that is a sister's, what a priest (? brahmán) from fury may curse—all that [be] underneath our feet.
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From the sky [is] the root stretched down, from off the earth stretched up; with this, thousand-jointed (-kā́ṇḍa), do thou protect us about on all sides.
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Protect me about, my progeny, [and] what riches are ours; let not the niggard get the better (tṛ) of us; let not hostile plotters get the better of us.
cakṣurmantrasya durhārdaḥ pṛṣṭīr api śṛṇīmasi
Let the curse go to the curser; our [part] is along with him that is friendly (suhā́rd); of the eye-conjurer (-mántra), the unfriendly, we crush in the ribs (pṛṣṭí).
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