To discover sorcerers: with an herb
He (?) looks on, he looks toward, he looks away, he looks: the sky, the atmosphere, then the earth—all that, O divine one (f.), he looks at.
Atharva Veda
To discover sorcerers: with an herb
To discover sorcerers: with an herb
He (?) looks on, he looks toward, he looks away, he looks: the sky, the atmosphere, then the earth—all that, O divine one (f.), he looks at.
Three skies, three earths, and these six directions severally—by thee let me see all beings, O divine herb.
Of that heavenly eagle art thou the eye-pupil; thou here hast ascended the earth as a wearied bride (vadhū́) a litter.
May the thousand-eyed god set it in my right hand; with it do I see every one, both who is Çūdra and [who] Āryan.
Make manifest [thy] forms; do not hide thyself away; then mayest thou, O thousand-eyed one, look upon the kimīdíns.
Show me the sorcerers; show the sorceresses; show all the piçācás: with this intent I take hold of (ā-rabh) thee, O herb.
The eye of Kaçyapa art thou, and of the four-eyed bitch; conceal thou not the piçācá, like the sun gliding (sṛp) in the clear sky (vīdhrá).
I have seized (ud-grabh) out of his shelter (paripā́ṇa) the sorcerer, the kimīdín; with it do I see every one, both Çūdra and Āryan.
Whichever flies through the atmosphere, and whichever creeps across the sky; whichever thinks the earth a refuge (nāthá)—that piçācá do thou show forth.
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