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Atharva Veda

Atharva Veda 4.20

To discover sorcerers: with an herb

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English · William Dwight Whitney

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.

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Three skies, three earths, and these six directions severally—by thee let me see all beings, O divine herb.

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Of that heavenly eagle art thou the eye-pupil; thou here hast ascended the earth as a wearied bride (vadhū́) a litter.

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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.

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Make manifest [thy] forms; do not hide thyself away; then mayest thou, O thousand-eyed one, look upon the kimīdíns.

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Show me the sorcerers; show the sorceresses; show all the piçācás: with this intent I take hold of (ā-rabh) thee, O herb.

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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).

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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.

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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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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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