Atharva Veda 8.7

yā babhravo yāś ca śukrā rohiṇīr uta pṛśnayaḥ asiknīḥ kṛṣṇā oṣadhīḥ sarvā acchāvadāmasi

To the plants: for some one's restoration to health

Those that are brown, and that are bright (çukrá), the red and the spotted, the swarthy, the black herbs—all [of them] do we address (acka-ā-vad).

trāyantām imaṃ puruṣaṃ yakṣmād deveṣitād adhi yāsām dyauḥ pitā pṛthivī mātā samudro mūlaṃ vīrudhāṃ babhūva

Let them save (trā) this man from the yákṣma sent by the gods—the plants of which heaven has been the father, earth the mother, ocean the root.

āpo agraṃ divyā oṣadhayaḥ tās te yakṣmam enasyam aṅgādaṅgād anīnaśan

Waters [were] the beginning, heavenly herbs; they have made disappear from every limb thy sinful (enasyà) yákṣma.

prastṛṇatī stambinīr ekaśuṅgāḥ pratanvatīr oṣadhīr ā vadāmi aṃśumatīḥ kāṇḍinīr yā viśākhā hvayāmi te vīrudho vaiśvadevīr ugrāḥ puruṣajīvanīḥ

The spreading, the bushy, the one-spathed, the extending herbs do I address; those rich in shoots, jointed (kāṇḍín), that have spreading branches (víçākha); I call for thee the plants that belong to all the gods, formidable, giving life to men.

yad vaḥ sahaḥ sahamānā vīryaṃ yac ca vo balam tenemam asmād yakṣmāt puruṣaṃ muñcatauṣadhīr atho kṛṇomi bheṣajam

What power [is] yours, ye powerful ones, [what] heroism and what strength [is] yours, therewith, O herbs, free ye this man from this yákṣma; now (átho) do I make a remedy.

jīvalāṃ naghāriṣāṃ jīvantīm oṣadhīm aham arundhatīm unnayantīṃ puṣpām madhumatīm iha huve 'smā ariṣṭatātaye

The lively, by-no-means-harming, living herb, the non-obstructing, up-guiding, flourishing (? puṣyá) one, rich in sweets, do I call hither, for this man's freedom from harm.

ihā yantu pracetaso medinīr vacaso mama yathemaṃ pārayāmasi puruṣaṃ duritād adhi

Let the forethoughtful ones come hither, allies (medín) of my spell (vácas), that we may make this man pass forth out of difficulty.

agner ghāso apāṃ garbho yā rohanti punarṇavāḥ dhruvāḥ sahasranāmnīr bheṣajīḥ santv ābhṛtāḥ

Food of fire, embryo of the waters, they that grow up renewed, fixed, thousand-named—be they remedial [when] brought.

avakolbā udakātmāna oṣadhayaḥ vyṛṣantu duritaṃ tīkṣṇaśṛṅgyaḥ

Wrapped in ávakā, water-natured, let the herbs, sharp-horned, thrust away difficulty.

unmuñcantīr vivaruṇā ugrā yā viṣadūṣaṇīḥ

Releasing, free from Varuṇa, formidable, that are poison-spoiling, also balā́sa-dispelling, and that are witchcraft-spoiling—let those herbs come hither.

apakrītāḥ sahīyasīr vīrudho yā abhiṣṭutāḥ trāyantām asmin grāme gām aśvaṃ puruṣaṃ paśum

Let the purchased, very powerful plants that are praised save in this village cow, horse, man, beast.

madhuman mūlaṃ madhumad agram āsāṃ madhuman madhyaṃ vīrudhāṃ babhūva madhumat parṇaṃ madhumat puṣpam āsāṃ madhoḥ saṃbhaktā amṛtasya bhakṣo ghṛtam annaṃ duhratāṃ gopurogavam

Rich in sweets the root, rich in sweets the tip of them, rich in sweets was the middle of the plants; rich in sweets the leaf, rich in sweets the flower of them; partaking of sweet, a drink of nectar (amṛ́ta), let them milk out ghee, food, with milk (gó-) as chief (-purogavá).

yāvatīḥ kiyatīś cemāḥ pṛthivyām adhy oṣadhīḥ tā mā sahasraparṇyo mṛtyor muñcantv aṃhasaḥ

However many [may be] these herbs upon the earth, let them, thousand-leafed, free me from death, from distress.

vaiyāghro maṇir vīrudhāṃ trāyamāṇo 'bhiśastipāḥ amīvāḥ sarvā rakṣāṃsy apa hantv adhi dūram asmat

Let the tigerish amulet of plants, saving, protecting from imprecation, smite far away from us diseases [and] all demons.

siṃhasyeva stanathoḥ saṃ vijante 'gner iva vijante ābhṛtābhyaḥ gavāṃ yakṣmaḥ puruṣāṇāṃ vīrudbhir atinutto nāvyā etu srotyāḥ

As at the roaring of a lion do they quake; as at fire do they tremble at [the herbs when] brought; let the yákṣma of kine, of men, go driven by the plants beyond navigable streams.

mumucānā oṣadhayo 'gner vaiśvānarād adhi bhūmiṃ saṃtanvatīr ita yāsāṃ rājā vanaspatiḥ

The herbs, becoming freed from Agni Vāiçvānara—go ye stretching over the earth, [ye] whose king is the forest-tree.

yā rohanty āṅgirasīḥ parvateṣu sameṣu ca tā naḥ payasvatīḥ śivā oṣadhīḥ santu śaṃ hṛde

They who, belonging to the An̄girases, grow on mountains and on plains—let those herbs, rich in milk, propitious, be weal to our heart.

yāś cāhaṃ veda vīrudho yāś ca paśyāmi cakṣuṣā ajñātā jānīmaś ca yā yāsu vidma ca saṃbhṛtam

Both what plants I know, and what I see with the eye, the unknown and what we are acquainted with, and those in which we know what is brought together—

sarvāḥ samagrā oṣadhīr bodhantu vacaso mama yathemaṃ pārayāmasi puruṣam duritād adhi

Let all the entire herbs note (budh) my spell (vácas), that we may make this man pass forth out of difficulty.

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The açvatthá, the darbhá, sóma king of plants, immortal oblation—rice and barley [are] remedial, immortal sons of heaven.

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Ye rise up (ud-hā); it thunders, it roars at [you], O herbs! when, O ye children of the spotted one, Parjanya favors you with seed.

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Of this amṛ́ta we make this man to drink the strength; now do I make a remedy, that he may be one of a hundred years (-hāyaná).

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The boar knows the plant; the mongoos knows the remedial [herb]; what ones the serpents, the Gandharvas know, those I call to aid for him.

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What [herbs] of the An̄girases the eagles [know], what heavenly ones the ragháṭs know, what ones the birds, the swans know, and what all the winged ones, what herbs the wild beasts know—those I call to aid for him.

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Of how many herbs the inviolable kine partake (pra-āç), of how many the goats and sheep, let so many herbs, being brought, extend protection to thee.

yāvatīṣu manuṣyā bheṣajaṃ bhiṣajo viduḥ tāvatīr viśvabheṣajīr ā bharāmi tvām abhi

In how many ⌊herbs⌋ human physicians (bhiṣáj) know a remedy, so many, all-remedial, do I bring unto thee.

puṣpavatīḥ prasūmatīḥ phalinīr aphalā uta saṃmātara iva duhrām asmā ariṣṭatātaye

Rich in flowers, rich in shoots (prasū́-), rich in fruits, also those lacking fruits—like joint mothers, let them milk unto this man in order to his freedom from harm.

ut tvāhārṣaṃ pañcaśalād atho daśaśalād uta atho yamasya paḍvīśād viśvasmād devakilbiṣāt

I have taken thee up out of what has five çalas, and also out of what has ten çalas, also out of Yama's fetter, out of all offense against the gods.