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Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 19 — Chapter 36

AV 19 36.1

शतवारो अनीनशद् यक्ष्मान् रक्षांसि तेजसा । आरोहन् वर्चसा सह मणिर् दुर्णामचातनः

śatavāro anīnaśad yakṣmān rakṣāṃsi tejasā | ārohan varcasā saha maṇir durṇāmacātanaḥ

The hundred-averter has made the consumptions and the rakṣases vanish by its sharpness. The amulet that expels the ill-named has mounted up together with splendour.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

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The Hundred-haired hath banished hence fiends and Consump- tions by its might. With splendour hath the charm that scares demons of ill-name mounted up.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 19 36.2

शृङ्गाभ्यां रक्षो नुदते मूलेन यातुधान्यः । मध्येन यक्ष्मं बाधते नैनं पाप्माति तत्रति

śṛṅgābhyāṃ rakṣo nudate mūlena yātudhānyaḥ | madhyena yakṣmaṃ bādhate nainaṃ pāpmāti tatrati

With its two horns it thrusts away the demon, with its root the sorceresses, with its middle it wards off consumption: evil does not pass beyond it.

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

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It drives off demons with its horns and sorceresses with its root, It stays Consumption with its waist: from this no wickedness escapes.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 19 36.3

ये यक्ष्मासो अर्भका महान्तो ये च शब्दिनः । सर्वां दुर्णामहा मणिः शतवारो अनीनशत्

ye yakṣmāso arbhakā mahānto ye ca śabdinaḥ | sarvāṃ durṇāmahā maṇiḥ śatavāro anīnaśat

The consumptions that are small, and those that are great and noisy — the amulet, the hundred-averter, slayer of the ill-named, has made them all vanish.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

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Consumptions, light and serious, and those which sounds accompany, All these the Amulet, Hundred-haired, scarer of fiends, hath banished hence.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 19 36.4

शतं वीरान् अजनयच् छतं यक्ष्मान् अपावपत् । दुर्णाम्नः सर्वान् हत्वाव रक्षांसि धूनुते

śataṃ vīrān ajanayac chataṃ yakṣmān apāvapat | durṇāmnaḥ sarvān hatvāva rakṣāṃsi dhūnute

It has begotten a hundred heroes, it has scattered away a hundred consumptions; having slain all the ill-named, it shakes off the rakṣases.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

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A hundred men hath it produced, hundred Consumptions chased away, All fiends of evil-name it hath smitten, and shakes the Rākshasas.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 19 36.5

हिरण्यशृङ्ग ऋषभः शातवारो अयं मणिः । दुर्णाम्नः सर्वांस् तृध्वाव रक्षांस्य् अक्रमीत्

hiraṇyaśṛṅga ṛṣabhaḥ śātavāro ayaṃ maṇiḥ | durṇāmnaḥ sarvāṃs tṛdhvāva rakṣāṃsy akramīt

A golden-horned bull is this hundred-averting amulet; having pierced all the ill-named, it has trampled down the rakṣases.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

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The Bull that weareth horns of gold, this Amulet with hundred hairs, Hath cleft the demons of ill-name and overcome the Rākshasas.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)

AV 19 36.6

शतम् अहं दुर्णाम्नीनां गन्धर्वाप्सरसां शतम् । शतम् शश्वन्वतीनां शतवारेण वारये

śatam ahaṃ durṇāmnīnāṃ gandharvāpsarasāṃ śatam | śatam śaśvanvatīnāṃ śatavāreṇa vāraye

A hundred of the ill-named females, a hundred of the Gandharvas and Apsarases, a hundred of the (demonesses) that keep recurring — I ward off with the hundred-averter.

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

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Hundred she-fiends, a hundred of Gandharvas and Apsarasas, A hundred of dog-mated nymphs, I keep away with Hundred- Hair

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)