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Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 2.3

अदो यद् अवधावत्य् अवत्कम् अधि पर्वतात् । तत् ते कृणोमि भेषजं सुभेषजं यथाससि ॥१॥

ado yad avadhāvaty avatkam adhi parvatāt | tat te kṛṇomi bheṣajaṃ subheṣajaṃ yathāsasi ||1||

What runs down yonder, aiding (?), off the mountain, that do I make for thee a remedy, that thou mayest be a good remedy.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

आद् अङ्गा कुविद् अङ्ग शतं या भेषजानि ते । तेषाम् असि त्वम् उत्तमम् अनास्रावम् अरोगणम् ॥२॥

ād aṅgā kuvid aṅga śataṃ yā bheṣajāni te | teṣām asi tvam uttamam anāsrāvam arogaṇam ||2||

Now then, forsooth! how then, forsooth? what hundred remedies are thine, of them art thou the chief (uttamá), free from flux, free from disease (árogaṇa).

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

नीचैः खनन्त्य् असुरा अरुस्राणम् इदं महत् । तद् आस्रावस्य भेषजं तद् उ रोगम् अनीनशत् ॥३॥

nīcaiḥ khananty asurā arusrāṇam idaṃ mahat | tad āsrāvasya bheṣajaṃ tad u rogam anīnaśat ||3||

The Asuras dig low down this great wound-healer; that is the remedy of flux; that has made the disease (róga) disappear.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

उपजीका उद् भरन्ति समुद्राद् अधि भेषजम् । तद् आस्रावस्य भेषजं तद् उ रोगम् अशीशमत् ॥४॥

upajīkā ud bharanti samudrād adhi bheṣajam | tad āsrāvasya bheṣajaṃ tad u rogam aśīśamat ||4||

The ants (upajī́kā) bring up the remedy from out the ocean; that is the remedy of flux; that has quieted (çam) the disease.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

अरुस्राणम् इदं महत् पृथिव्या अध्य् उद्भृतम् । तद् आस्रावस्य भेषजं तद् उ रोगम् अनीनशत् ॥५॥

arusrāṇam idaṃ mahat pṛthivyā adhy udbhṛtam | tad āsrāvasya bheṣajaṃ tad u rogam anīnaśat ||5||

This is a great wound-healer, brought up from out the earth; that is the remedy of the flux; that has made the disease disappear.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

शं नो भवन्त्व् अप ओषधयः शिवाः । इन्द्रस्य वज्रो अप हन्तु रक्षस आराद् विसृष्टा इषवः पतन्तु रक्षसाम् ॥६॥

śaṃ no bhavantv apa oṣadhayaḥ śivāḥ | indrasya vajro apa hantu rakṣasa ārād visṛṣṭā iṣavaḥ patantu rakṣasām ||6||

Weal be to us the waters, propitious the herbs; let Indra's thunderbolt smite away the demoniacs { rakṣás); far away let the discharged arrows of the demoniacs fly.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)