Library·Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka)·1·1.23
नक्तंजातासि ओषधे रामे कृष्णे असिक्नि च । इदं रजनि रजय किलासं पलितं च यत् ॥१॥
naktaṃjātāsi oṣadhe rāme kṛṣṇe asikni ca | idaṃ rajani rajaya kilāsaṃ palitaṃ ca yat ||1||
Night-born art thou, O herb, O dark, black, [and] dusky one; O colorer (rajanī), do thou color this leprous spot and what is pale (palitá).
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
किलासं च पलितं च निर् इतो नाशया पृषत् । आ त्वा स्वो विशतां वर्णः परा शुक्लानि पातय ॥२॥
kilāsaṃ ca palitaṃ ca nir ito nāśayā pṛṣat | ā tvā svo viśatāṃ varṇaḥ parā śuklāni pātaya ||2||
The leprous spot, what is pale, do thou cause to disappear from hence, the speckled; let thine own color enter thee; make white things (çuklá) fly away.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
असितं ते प्रलयनम् आस्थानम् असितं तव । असिक्नी अस्य् ओषधे निर् इतो नाशया पृषत् ॥३॥
asitaṃ te pralayanam āsthānam asitaṃ tava | asiknī asy oṣadhe nir ito nāśayā pṛṣat ||3||
Dusky is thy hiding-place, dusky thy station (āsthā́na); dusky art thou, O herb; make the speckled disappear from hence.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
अस्थिजस्य किलासस्य तनूजस्य च यत् त्वचि । दूष्या कृतस्य ब्रह्मणा लक्ष्म श्वेतम् अनीनशम् ॥४॥
asthijasya kilāsasya tanūjasya ca yat tvaci | dūṣyā kṛtasya brahmaṇā lakṣma śvetam anīnaśam ||4||
Of the bone-born leprous spot, and of the body-born that is in the skin, of that made by the spoiler (dū́ṣi)—by incantation have I made the white (çvetá) mark disappear.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)