Atharva Veda 9.8 · Vedas – Griffith · Verses Across
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Atharva Veda 9.8
A charm for the cure of various diseases connected with Consumption
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Each pain and ache that racks the head, earache, and erysipelas,. All malady that wrings thy brow we charm away with this our spell.
From both thine ears, from parts thereof, thine earache, and the throbbing pain, All malady that wrings thy brow we charm away with this our spell.
So that Consumption may depart forth from thine ears and from. thy mouth, All malady that wrings thy brow we charm away with this our spell.
The malady that makes one deaf, the malady that makes one blind, All malady that wrings thy brow we charm away with this our spell.
The throbbing pain in all thy limbs that rends thy frame with fever-throes, All malady that wrings thy brow we charm away with this our spell.
The malady whose awful look makes a man quiver with alarm, Fever whom every Autumn brings we charm away with this our spell.
Disease that creeps about the thighs and, after, reaches both the groins, Consumption from thine inward parts we charm away with this our spell.
If the disease originates from love, from hatred, from the heart, Forth from the heart and from the limbs we charm the wasting malady.
The yellow Jaundice from thy limbs, and Colic from the parts within, And Phthisis from thine inward soul we charm away with this our spell.
Let wasting malady turn to dust, become the water of disease. I have evoked the poison-taint of all Consumptions out of thee.
Forth from the hollow let it run, and rumbling sounds from thine inside. I have evoked the poison-taint of all Consumptions out of thee.
Forth from thy belly and thy lungs, forth from thy navel and thy heart. I have evoked the poison taint of all Consumptions out of thee.
The penetrating stabs of pain which rend asunder crown and head, Let them depart and pass away, free from disease and harming not.
The pangs that stab the heart and reach the breast-bone and connected parts, Let them depart and pass away, free from disease and harming not.
The stabs that penetrate the sides and pierce their way along the ribs, Let them depart and pass away, free from disease and harming not.
The penetrating pangs that pierce thy stomach as they shoot across, Let them depart and pass away, free from disease and harming not.
The pains that through the bowels creep, disordering the inward parts, Let them depart and pass away, free from disease and harming not.
The pains that suck the marrow out, and rend and tear the bones apart, May they speed forth and pass away, free from disease and harming not.
Consumptions with their Colic pains which make thy limbs insensible I have evoked the poison-taint of all Consumptions out of thee.
Of piercing pain, of abscesses, rheumatic ache, ophthalmia— I have evoked the poison-taint of all Consumptions out of thee.
I have dispelled the piercing pains from feet, knees, hips, and hinder parts, And spine, and from the neck and nape the malady that racked the head.
Sound are the skull-bones of thy head and thy heart's beat is regular. Thou, Sun, arising with thy beams hast chased away the head's disease, hast stilled the pain that racked the limbs.
