Atharva Veda 5.22

agnis takmānam apa bādhatām itaḥ somo grāvā varuṇaḥ pūtadakṣāḥ vedir barhiḥ samidhaḥ śośucānā apa dveṣāṃsy amuyā bhavantu

Against fever (takmán)

Let Agni drive (bādh) the fever away from here; [let] Soma, the pressing-stone, Varuṇa of purified dexterity, the sacrificial hearth, the barhís, the brightly gleaming (çuc) fuel; be hatreds away yonder.

ayaṃ yo viśvān haritān kṛṇoṣy ucchocayann agnir ivābhidunvan adhā hi takmann araso hi bhūyā adhā nyaṅṅ adharān vā parehi

Thou here that makest all [men] yellow, heating (çuc) up like fire, consuming; now then, O fever—for mayest thou become sapless—now go away inward or downward.

yaḥ paruṣaḥ pāruṣeyo 'vadhvaṃsa ivāruṇaḥ takmānaṃ viśvadhāvīryādharāñcaṃ parā suvā

The fever that is spotted, speckled, ruddy like a sprinkling, do thou, O thou of power (-vīryà) in every direction, impel away downward.

adharāñcam pra hiṇomi namaḥ kṛtvā takmane śakambharasya muṣṭihā punar etu mahāvṛṣān

I send [him] forth downward, having paid homage to the fever; let the fist-slayer of the dung-bearer (?) go back to the Mahāvrishas.

oko asya mūjavanta oko asya mahāvṛṣāḥ yāvaj jātas takmaṃs tāvān asi balhikeṣu nyocaraḥ

Its home (ókas) is the Mūjavants, its home is the Mahāvrishas; as long as born, O fever, so long art thou at home among the Balhikas.

takman vyāla vi gada vyaṅga bhūri yāvaya dāsīṃ niṣṭakvarīm iccha tām vajreṇa sam arpaya

O fever, trickish one, speak out (?); O limbless one, keep much away (?); seek the fugitive (?) barbarian woman; make her meet a thunderbolt.

takman mūjavato gaccha balhikān vā parastarām śūdrām iccha prapharvyaṃ tāṃ takman vīva dhūnuhi

O fever, go to the Mūjavants, or to the Balhikas, further off; seek the wanton Çūdra woman; her, O fever, do thou shake up a bit (iva).

mahāvṛṣān mūjavato bandhv addhi paretya praitāni takmane brūmo anyakṣetrāṇi vā imā

Going away, eat thou thy connection (bándhu), the Mahāvrishas [and] Mūjavants; those [fields] we announce to the fever; others' fields verily [are] these.

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In another's field thou restest (ram) not; being in control, mayest thou be gracious to us; the fever hath become ready (?); it will go to the Balhikas.

yat tvaṃ śīto 'tho rūraḥ saha kāsāvepayaḥ bhīmās te takman hetayas tābhiḥ sma pari vṛṅgdhi naḥ

In that thou, being cold, then hot (rūrá), didst cause trembling, together with cough—fearful are thy missiles, O fever; with them do thou avoid us.

mā smaitānt sakhīn kuruthā balāsaṃ kāsam udyugam mā smāto'rvāṅ aiḥ punas tat tvā takmann upa bruve

Do not thou make them thy companions—the balā́sa, the cough, the udyugá (?); come not back hitherward from there: for that, O fever, I appeal to thee.

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O fever, together with thy brother the balā́sa [and] thy sister the cough, together with thy cousin the scab (pāmán), go to yon foreign people.

tṛtīyakaṃ vitṛtīyaṃ sadandim uta śāradam takmānaṃ śītaṃ rūraṃ graiṣmaṃ nāśaya vārṣikam

The fever of the third day, of two days out of three, the constant, and the autumnal, the cold, the hot, that of the hot season, that of the rainy season, do thou cause to disappear.

gandhāribhyo mūjavadbhyo 'ṅgebhyo magadhebhyaḥ praiṣyan janam iva śevadhiṃ takmānaṃ pari dadmasi

To the Gandhāris, the Mūjavants, the An̄gas, the Magadhas, like one sending a person a treasure, do we commit the fever.