Atharvaveda · Sūkta 8.6
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8.6.1
यौ ते मातोन्ममार्ज जातायाः पतिवेदनौ ।
दुर्णामा तत्र मा गृधदलिंश उत वत्सपः ॥ ८.६.१ ॥
The two (charms) that a mother wiped on the woman who has given birth, the charms that win a husband. There let the ill-named demon not covet me, nor Alińśa, nor Vatsapa.
8.6.2
पलालानुपलालौ शर्कुं कोकं मलिम्लुचं पलीजकम् ।
आश्रेषं वव्रिवाससमृक्षग्रीवं प्रमीलिनम् ॥ ८.६.२ ॥
Palāla and Anupalāla, Śarku, Koka, Malimluca, Palījaka, Āśreṣa, the one clad in a hairy garment, the bear-necked one, and Pramīlin.
8.6.3
मा सं वृतो मोप सृप ऊरू माव सृपोऽन्तरा ।
कृणोम्यस्यै भेषजं बजं दुर्णामचातनम् ॥ ८.६.३ ॥
Do not coil around her, do not creep near; do not glide down between her two thighs. For her I make a remedy, a strength that drives away the ill-named one.
8.6.4
दुर्णामा च सुनामा चोभा सम्वृतमिच्छतः ।
अरायान् अप हन्मः सुनामा स्त्रैणमिच्छताम् ॥ ८.६.४ ॥
Both the ill-named and the well-named desire the covered woman. We strike away the stingy (wicked) ones; let the well-named one desire the female.
8.6.5
यः कृष्णः केश्यसुर स्तम्बज उत तुण्डिकः ।
अरायान् अस्या मुष्काभ्यां भंससोऽप हन्मसि ॥ ८.६.५ ॥
The black, long-haired demon born in a tuft of grass, and Tuṇḍika — these stingy (wicked) ones we strike away with her two testicles, with the genitals.
8.6.6
अनुजिघ्रं प्रमृशन्तं क्रव्यादमुत रेरिहम् ।
अरायां छ्वकिष्किणो बजः पिङ्गो अनीनशत् ॥ ८.६.६ ॥
May the tawny strength of Śvakiṣkiṇa destroy the stingy (wicked) one who sniffs after her, fondles, devours flesh, and licks.
8.6.7
यस्त्वा स्वप्ने निपद्यते भ्राता भूत्वा पितेव च ।
बजस्तान्त्सहतामितः क्लीबरूपांस्तिरीटिनः ॥ ८.६.७ ॥
Whoever comes upon you in sleep, becoming a brother or even like a father, may Baja overcome those of unmanly form, the crowned ones, from here.
8.6.8
यस्त्वा स्वपन्तीं त्सरति यस्त्वा दिप्सति जाग्रतीम् ।
छायामिव प्र तान्त्सूर्यः परिक्रामन्न् अनीनशत् ॥ ८.६.८ ॥
Whoever creeps upon you while you sleep, and whoever wishes to harm you while you wake—may the sun, circling like a shadow, destroy them.
8.6.9
यः कृणोति मृतवत्सामवतोकामिमां स्त्रियम् ।
तमोषधे त्वं नाशयास्याः कमलमञ्जिवम् ॥ ८.६.९ ॥
Whoever makes this woman one whose children die and who is childless—O herb, destroy him; destroy also her lotus-like (affliction).
8.6.10
ये शालाः परिनृत्यन्ति सायं गर्दभनादिनः ।
कुसूला ये च कुक्षिलाः ककुभाः करुमाः स्रिमाः ।
तान् ओषधे त्वं गन्धेन विषूचीनान् वि नाशय ॥ ८.६.१० ॥
Those who dance around the halls at evening, braying like donkeys, and the granary-dwellers, belly-dwellers, peaks, hunched ones and crooked ones—O herb, destroy those scattering apart with your fragrance.
8.6.11
ये कुकुन्धाः कुकिरभाः कृत्तीर्दूर्शानि बिभ्रति ।
क्लीबा इव प्रनृत्यन्तो वने ये कुर्वते घोषं तान् इतो नाशयामसि ॥ ८.६.११ ॥
Those who are kukundhas and kukirabhas, who bear hides and eyes, who dance in the forest like unmanly ones and make a cry—these we destroy from here.
8.6.12
ये सूर्यं न तितिक्षन्त आतपन्तममुं दिवः ।
अरायान् बस्तवासिनो दुर्गन्धींल्लोहितास्यान् मककान् नाशयामसि ॥ ८.६.१२ ॥
Those who cannot endure that scorching sun of the sky, the miserly goat-dwellers, foul-smelling, red-faced, and makaka-like ones—these we destroy.
8.6.13
य आत्मानमतिमात्रमंस आधाय बिभ्रति ।
स्त्रीणां श्रोणिप्रतोदिन इन्द्र रक्षांसि नाशय ॥ ८.६.१३ ॥
Those who carry themselves excessively upon the shoulder, who goad the hips of women — Indra, destroy those demons.
8.6.14
ये पूर्वे बध्वो यन्ति हस्ते शृङ्गानि बिभ्रतः ।
आपाकेस्थाः प्रहासिन स्तम्बे ये कुर्वते ज्योतिस्तान् इतो नाशयामसि ॥ ८.६.१४ ॥
Those who go bound in front, carrying horns in their hands, dwelling in the hearth, laughing, making light in a tuft of grass — we destroy them from here.
8.6.15
येषां पश्चात्प्रपदानि पुरः पार्ष्णीः पुरो मुखा ।
खलजाः शकधूमजा उरुण्डा ये च मट्मटाः कुम्भमुष्का अयाशवः ।
तान् अस्या ब्रह्मणस्पते प्रतीबोधेन नाशय ॥ ८.६.१५ ॥
Whose hindfeet are in back and heels in front, faces in front; born of the threshing-floor and of the smoke of dried dung; the uruṇḍas, the maṭ-maṭas, pot-testicled, swiftless — these, from her, O Brahmaṇaspati, destroy by waking them in return.
8.6.16
पर्यस्ताक्षा अप्रचङ्कशा अस्त्रैणाः सन्तु पण्डगाः ।
अव भेषज पादय य इमां संविवृत्सत्यपतिः स्वपतिं स्त्रियम् ॥ ८.६.१६ ॥
Those with eyes turned away, unsightly, antelope-like — let them be eunuchs. O healing one, make fall down the woman who, without a husband, desires to turn away from her own husband.
8.6.17
उद्धर्षिणं मुनिकेशं जम्भयन्तं मरीमृशम् ।
उपेषन्तमुदुम्बलं तुण्डेलमुत शालुडम् ।
पदा प्र विध्य पार्ष्ण्या स्थालीं गौरिव स्पन्दना ॥ ८.६.१७ ॥
The hair-raiser, the sage-haired one, the biter, the repeated toucher, the approacher, the ugly udumbala, the tuṇḍela, and the śāluḍa — pierce them with the foot, with the heel; make the cooking-pot tremble like a cow.
8.6.18
यस्ते गर्भं प्रतिमृशाज्जातं वा मारयाति ते ।
पिङ्गस्तमुग्रधन्वा कृणोतु हृदयाविधम् ॥ ८.६.१८ ॥
Whoever touches your embryo to harm it, or kills the child once born — let the tawny Piṅga, fierce of bow, make him one pierced through the heart.
8.6.19
ये अम्नो जतान् मारयन्ति सूतिका अनुशेरते ।
स्त्रीभागान् पिङ्गो गन्धर्वान् वातो अभ्रमिवाजतु ॥ ८.६.१९ ॥
The amna-demons who kill the newborn, the sūtikās who lie in wait beside the woman in labour, the Gandharvas that are portions of women — may the tawny Piṅga drive them off as the wind drives a cloud.
8.6.20
परिसृष्टं धरयतु यद्धितं माव पादि तत् ।
गर्भं त उग्रौ रक्षतां भेषजौ नीविभार्यौ ॥ ८.६.२० ॥
May he hold back the affliction that has been let loose, so that what is good does not fall. May the two fierce remedies guard your embryo — the two healing herbs worn in the knot of the garment.
8.6.21
पवीनसात्तङ्गल्वाच्छायकादुत नग्नकात् ।
प्रजायै पत्ये त्वा पिङ्गः परि पातु किमीदिनः ॥ ८.६.२१ ॥
From the Pavīnasa, the Taṅgalva, the Chāyaka and the Nagnaka — for the sake of offspring and of your husband, may the tawny Piṅga guard you all around; and from the Kimīdin too.
8.6.22
द्व्यास्याच्चतुरक्षात्पञ्चपदादनङ्गुरेः ।
वृन्तादभि प्रसर्पतः परि पाहि वरीवृतात् ॥ ८.६.२२ ॥
From the two-faced one, the four-eyed, the five-footed, the fingerless one, from the stalk that creeps upon you, from the one that encircles — protect her completely.
8.6.23
य आमं मांसमदन्ति पौरुषेयं च ये क्रविः ।
गर्भान् खादन्ति केशवास्तान् इतो नाशयामसि ॥ ८.६.२३ ॥
Those who eat raw flesh, and those who eat human flesh, and those who devour raw flesh — the Keśavas who swallow embryos: from here we destroy them.
8.6.24
ये सूर्यात्परिसर्पन्ति स्नुषेव श्वशुरादधि ।
बजश्च तेषां पिङ्गश्च हृदयेऽधि नि विध्यताम् ॥ ८.६.२४ ॥
Those who creep around from the sun, as a daughter-in-law from her father-in-law — of them, let Baja and Piṅga be pierced through in the heart.
8.6.25
पिङ्ग रक्ष जायमानं मा पुमांसं स्त्रियं क्रन् ।
आण्डादो गर्भान् मा दभन् बाधस्वेतः किमीदिनः ॥ ८.६.२५ ॥
O Piṅga, protect the one being born; do not make it a male or a female. Let the egg-eaters not harm the embryos; drive the kimīdin demons away from here.
8.6.26
अप्रजास्त्वं मार्तवत्समाद्रोदमघमावयम् ।
वृक्षादिव स्रजं कृत्वाप्रिये प्रति मुञ्च तत् ॥ ८.६.२६ ॥
Be without offspring, as a mortal is from his equal; we turn away weeping and evil. As one makes a garland from a tree, release that back upon the unloved one.