Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 1 — Chapter 23

AV 1 23.1

नक्तंजातासि ओषधे रामे कृष्णे असिक्नि च । इदं रजनि रजय किलासं पलितं च यत्

naktaṃjātāsi oṣadhe rāme kṛṣṇe asikni ca | idaṃ rajani rajaya kilāsaṃ palitaṃ ca yat

Night-born are you, O plant — dark, black, and swarthy. Dye, O dyeing one, this leprous spot and what is grey.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 1 23.2

किलासं च पलितं च निर् इतो नाशया पृषत् । आ त्वा स्वो विशतां वर्णः परा शुक्लानि पातय

kilāsaṃ ca palitaṃ ca nir ito nāśayā pṛṣat | ā tvā svo viśatāṃ varṇaḥ parā śuklāni pātaya

Both the leprous spot and the grey — destroy (them), drive (them) from here, O speckled one; let one's own colour come to pervade you, make the white (patches) fly away.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 1 23.3

असितं ते प्रलयनम् आस्थानम् असितं तव । असिक्नी अस्य् ओषधे निर् इतो नाशया पृषत्

asitaṃ te pralayanam āsthānam asitaṃ tava | asiknī asy oṣadhe nir ito nāśayā pṛṣat

Black is your lair, black your standing-place; black are you, O plant: destroy, drive from here the speckled (blemish).

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 1 23.4

अस्थिजस्य किलासस्य तनूजस्य च यत् त्वचि । दूष्या कृतस्य ब्रह्मणा लक्ष्म श्वेतम् अनीनशम्

asthijasya kilāsasya tanūjasya ca yat tvaci | dūṣyā kṛtasya brahmaṇā lakṣma śvetam anīnaśam

Of the bone-born leprous spot, and of the body-born, and of that which is on the skin — (the spot) made by defilement — with the spell I have destroyed the white mark.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain