Library·Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka)·4·4.17
ईशाणां त्वा भेषजानाम् उज्जेष आ रभामहे । चक्रे सहस्रवीर्यम् सर्वस्मा ओषधे त्वा ॥१॥
īśāṇāṃ tvā bheṣajānām ujjeṣa ā rabhāmahe | cakre sahasravīryam sarvasmā oṣadhe tvā ||1||
Thee, the mistress of remedies, O conquering one (ujjeṣá), we take hold of; I have made thee a thing of thousand-fold energy (-vīryà) for every one, O herb.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
सत्यजितं शपथयावनीं सहमानां पुनःसराम् । सर्वाः सम् अह्व्य् ओषधीर् इतो नः पारयाद् इति ॥२॥
satyajitaṃ śapathayāvanīṃ sahamānāṃ punaḥsarām | sarvāḥ sam ahvy oṣadhīr ito naḥ pārayād iti ||2||
The truly-conquering, the curse-repelling, the overcoming, the reverted one (punaḥsará)—all the herbs have I called together, saying "may they (?) save us from this."
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
या शशाप शपनेन याघं मूरम् आदधे । या रसस्य हरणाय जातम् आरेभे तोकम् अत्तु सा ॥३॥
yā śaśāpa śapanena yāghaṃ mūram ādadhe | yā rasasya haraṇāya jātam ārebhe tokam attu sā ||3||
She that hath cursed with cursing, that hath taken malignity as her root, that hath seized on [our] young to take [its] sap—let her eat [her own] offspring.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
यां ते चक्रुर् आमे पात्रे यां चक्रुर् नीललोहिते । आमे मांसे कृत्यां यां चक्रुस् तया कृत्याकृतो जहि ॥४॥
yāṃ te cakrur āme pātre yāṃ cakrur nīlalohite | āme māṃse kṛtyāṃ yāṃ cakrus tayā kṛtyākṛto jahi ||4||
What [witchcraft] they have made for thee in the raw vessel (pā́tra), what they have made in the blue-red one, in raw flesh what witchcraft they have made—with that do thou smite the witchcraft-makers.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
दौष्वप्न्यं दौर्जीवित्यं रक्षो अभ्वम् अराय्यः । दुर्णाम्नीः सर्वा दुर्वाचस् ता अस्मन् नाशयामसि ॥५॥
dauṣvapnyaṃ daurjīvityaṃ rakṣo abhvam arāyyaḥ | durṇāmnīḥ sarvā durvācas tā asman nāśayāmasi ||5||
Evil-dreaming, evil-living, demon, monster (abhvà), hags, all the ill-named (f.), ill-voiced—them we make disappear from us.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
क्षुधामारं तृष्णामारम् अगोताम् अनपत्यताम् । अपामार्ग त्वया वयं सर्वं तद् अप मृज्महे ॥६॥
kṣudhāmāraṃ tṛṣṇāmāram agotām anapatyatām | apāmārga tvayā vayaṃ sarvaṃ tad apa mṛjmahe ||6||
Death by hunger, death by thirst, kinelessness, childlessness—through thee, O off-wiper (apāmārgá), we wipe off all that.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
तृष्णामारं क्षुधामारं अथो अक्षपराजयम् । अपामार्ग त्वया वयं सर्वं तद् अप मृज्महे ॥७॥
tṛṣṇāmāraṃ kṣudhāmāraṃ atho akṣaparājayam | apāmārga tvayā vayaṃ sarvaṃ tad apa mṛjmahe ||7||
Death by thirst, death by hunger, likewise defeat at dice—through thee, O off-wiper, we wipe off all that.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
अपामार्ग ओषधीनां सर्वासाम् एक इद् वशी । तेन ते मृज्म आस्थितम् अथ त्वम् अगदश् चर ॥८॥
apāmārga oṣadhīnāṃ sarvāsām eka id vaśī | tena te mṛjma āsthitam atha tvam agadaś cara ||8||
The off-wiper is indeed of all herbs the sole controller (vaçín); with it we wipe [off] what has befallen (ā́sthita) thee; then do thou go about free from disease.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)