Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 4 — Chapter 17

AV 4 17.1

ईशाणां त्वा भेषजानाम् उज्जेष आ रभामहे । चक्रे सहस्रवीर्यम् सर्वस्मा ओषधे त्वा

īśāṇāṃ tvā bheṣajānām ujjeṣa ā rabhāmahe | cakre sahasravīryam sarvasmā oṣadhe tvā

We take hold of you, ruler over remedies, O victorious one. I have made you of thousandfold strength, O plant, for everyone.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 4 17.2

सत्यजितं शपथयावनीं सहमानां पुनःसराम् । सर्वाः सम् अह्व्य् ओषधीर् इतो नः पारयाद् इति

satyajitaṃ śapathayāvanīṃ sahamānāṃ punaḥsarām | sarvāḥ sam ahvy oṣadhīr ito naḥ pārayād iti

(The plant) that conquers by truth, that drives off curses, that overpowers, that runs back (against the sender) — I have called together all the plants, that it may carry us over from here.

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

AV 4 17.3

या शशाप शपनेन याघं मूरम् आदधे । या रसस्य हरणाय जातम् आरेभे तोकम् अत्तु सा

yā śaśāpa śapanena yāghaṃ mūram ādadhe | yā rasasya haraṇāya jātam ārebhe tokam attu sā

The woman who has cursed with a curse, who has laid on an evil root, who has taken hold of a newborn child to carry off its sap — let her eat her own offspring.

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

AV 4 17.4

यां ते चक्रुर् आमे पात्रे यां चक्रुर् नीललोहिते । आमे मांसे कृत्यां यां चक्रुस् तया कृत्याकृतो जहि

yāṃ te cakrur āme pātre yāṃ cakrur nīlalohite | āme māṃse kṛtyāṃ yāṃ cakrus tayā kṛtyākṛto jahi

The spell they have made for you in a raw vessel, the one they made in the blue-and-red, the spell they made in raw flesh — with that one strike down the maker of the spell.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 4 17.5

दौष्वप्न्यं दौर्जीवित्यं रक्षो अभ्वम् अराय्यः । दुर्णाम्नीः सर्वा दुर्वाचस् ता अस्मन् नाशयामसि

dauṣvapnyaṃ daurjīvityaṃ rakṣo abhvam arāyyaḥ | durṇāmnīḥ sarvā durvācas tā asman nāśayāmasi

Bad dreaming, bad living, rakṣas, monstrousness, the arāyī demonesses, all the ill-named and ill-speaking ones — these we make disappear from us.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 4 17.6

क्षुधामारं तृष्णामारम् अगोताम् अनपत्यताम् । अपामार्ग त्वया वयं सर्वं तद् अप मृज्महे

kṣudhāmāraṃ tṛṣṇāmāram agotām anapatyatām | apāmārga tvayā vayaṃ sarvaṃ tad apa mṛjmahe

Death by hunger, death by thirst, cattlelessness, childlessness — O Apāmārga, with you we wipe all that away.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 4 17.7

तृष्णामारं क्षुधामारं अथो अक्षपराजयम् । अपामार्ग त्वया वयं सर्वं तद् अप मृज्महे

tṛṣṇāmāraṃ kṣudhāmāraṃ atho akṣaparājayam | apāmārga tvayā vayaṃ sarvaṃ tad apa mṛjmahe

Death by thirst, death by hunger, and also defeat at dice — O Apāmārga, with you we wipe all that away.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 4 17.8

अपामार्ग ओषधीनां सर्वासाम् एक इद् वशी । तेन ते मृज्म आस्थितम् अथ त्वम् अगदश् चर

apāmārga oṣadhīnāṃ sarvāsām eka id vaśī | tena te mṛjma āsthitam atha tvam agadaś cara

Apāmārga alone is the master of all the plants; with it we wipe away from you what has settled (on you); then go about free of disease.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition