Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 5 — Chapter 22

AV 5 22.1

अग्निस् तक्मानम् अप बाधताम् इतः सोमो ग्रावा वरुणः पूतदक्षाः । वेदिर् बर्हिः समिधः शोशुचाना अप द्वेषांस्य् अमुया भवन्तु

agnis takmānam apa bādhatām itaḥ somo grāvā varuṇaḥ pūtadakṣāḥ | vedir barhiḥ samidhaḥ śośucānā apa dveṣāṃsy amuyā bhavantu

Let Agni thrust the fever away from here; (so too) Soma, the pressing-stone, Varuṇa of purified skill; the altar, the barhis, the blazing firewood — let the hatreds be gone off yonder.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 5 22.2

अयं यो विश्वान् हरितान् कृणोष्य् उच्छोचयन्न् अग्निर् इवाभिदुन्वन् । अधा हि तक्मन्न् अरसो हि भूया अधा न्यङ्ङ् अधरान् वा परेहि

ayaṃ yo viśvān haritān kṛṇoṣy ucchocayann agnir ivābhidunvan | adhā hi takmann araso hi bhūyā adhā nyaṅṅ adharān vā parehi

You here, who make all (men) yellow, burning (them) up, scorching (them) like Agni — now, O fever, become sapless, now go away downward or (to the regions) below.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 5 22.3

यः परुषः पारुषेयो ऽवध्वंस इवारुणः । तक्मानं विश्वधावीर्याधराञ्चं परा सुवा

yaḥ paruṣaḥ pāruṣeyo 'vadhvaṃsa ivāruṇaḥ | takmānaṃ viśvadhāvīryādharāñcaṃ parā suvā

(He) who is spotted, of spotted (kind), ruddy as if from a sprinkling — O you of power in every way, drive the fever away downward.

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

AV 5 22.4

अधराञ्चम् प्र हिणोमि नमः कृत्वा तक्मने । शकम्भरस्य मुष्टिहा पुनर् एतु महावृषान्

adharāñcam pra hiṇomi namaḥ kṛtvā takmane | śakambharasya muṣṭihā punar etu mahāvṛṣān

Downward I send (him) forth, having made homage to the fever; let the fist-striker of Śakambhara go back to the Mahāvṛṣas.

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

AV 5 22.5

ओको अस्य मूजवन्त ओको अस्य महावृषाः । यावज् जातस् तक्मंस् तावान् असि बल्हिकेषु न्योचरः

oko asya mūjavanta oko asya mahāvṛṣāḥ | yāvaj jātas takmaṃs tāvān asi balhikeṣu nyocaraḥ

His home are the Mūjavants, his home the Mahāvṛṣas; from the moment you were born, O fever, you are just so much — you are at home among the Balhikas.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 5 22.6

तक्मन् व्याल वि गद व्यङ्ग भूरि यावय । दासीं निष्टक्वरीम् इछ ताम् वज्रेण सम् अर्पय

takman vyāla vi gada vyaṅga bhūri yāvaya | dāsīṃ niṣṭakvarīm icha tām vajreṇa sam arpaya

O fever, you vyāla, disperse; you vyaṅga, keep far off much (of yourself); seek the slave-girl niṣṭakvarī, and dash her with the thunderbolt.

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

AV 5 22.7

तक्मन् मूजवतो गछ बल्हिकान् वा परस्तराम् । शूद्राम् इछ प्रफर्व्यं तां तक्मन् वीव धूनुहि

takman mūjavato gacha balhikān vā parastarām | śūdrām icha prapharvyaṃ tāṃ takman vīva dhūnuhi

O fever, go to the Mūjavants, or the Balhikas farther away; seek out the Śūdra woman, the wanton one — shake her up, O fever.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 5 22.8

महावृषान् मूजवतो बन्ध्व् अद्धि परेत्य । प्रैतानि तक्मने ब्रूमो अन्यक्षेत्राणि वा इमा

mahāvṛṣān mūjavato bandhv addhi paretya | praitāni takmane brūmo anyakṣetrāṇi vā imā

Go away and devour (your) kin among the Mahāvṛṣas, the Mūjavants. To the fever we proclaim these (places) as belonging elsewhere, or (rather) these fields of another.

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

AV 5 22.9

अन्यक्षेत्रे न रमसे वशी सन् मृडयासि नः । अभूद् उ प्रार्थस् तक्मा स गमिष्यति बल्हिकान्

anyakṣetre na ramase vaśī san mṛḍayāsi naḥ | abhūd u prārthas takmā sa gamiṣyati balhikān

In another's field you take no pleasure; being master, you would be merciful to us. The fever has become eager (to go) — it will go to the Balhikas.

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

AV 5 22.10

यत् त्वं शीतो ऽथो रूरः सह कासावेपयः । भीमास् ते तक्मन् हेतयस् ताभिः स्म परि वृङ्ग्धि नः

yat tvaṃ śīto 'tho rūraḥ saha kāsāvepayaḥ | bhīmās te takman hetayas tābhiḥ sma pari vṛṅgdhi naḥ

Since you are cold and also feverish-hot, along with cough (and) causing trembling — fearful, O fever, are your missiles; with those spare us.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 5 22.11

मा स्मैतान्त् सखीन् कुरुथा बलासं कासम् उद्युगम् । मा स्मातोऽर्वाङ् ऐः पुनस् तत् त्वा तक्मन्न् उप ब्रुवे

mā smaitānt sakhīn kuruthā balāsaṃ kāsam udyugam | mā smāto'rvāṅ aiḥ punas tat tvā takmann upa bruve

Do not make these your companions: balāsa, cough, the convulsion; do not come hither again from there — that I say to you, O fever.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 5 22.12

तक्मन् भ्रात्रा बलासेन स्वस्रा कासिकया सह । पाप्मा भ्रातृव्येण सह गछामुम् अरणं जनम्

takman bhrātrā balāsena svasrā kāsikayā saha | pāpmā bhrātṛvyeṇa saha gachāmum araṇaṃ janam

O fever, together with your brother balāsa, with your sister the cough, with your cousin the evil — go to that alien people.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 5 22.13

तृतीयकं वितृतीयं सदन्दिम् उत शारदम् । तक्मानं शीतं रूरं ग्रैष्मं नाशय वार्षिकम्

tṛtīyakaṃ vitṛtīyaṃ sadandim uta śāradam | takmānaṃ śītaṃ rūraṃ graiṣmaṃ nāśaya vārṣikam

The tertian, the recurrent-tertian, the continual and the autumnal, the cold fever, the hot one, the summer one, the rainy one — make (it) vanish.

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

AV 5 22.14

गन्धारिभ्यो मूजवद्भ्यो ऽङ्गेभ्यो मगधेभ्यः । प्रैष्यन् जनम् इव शेवधिं तक्मानं परि दद्मसि

gandhāribhyo mūjavadbhyo 'ṅgebhyo magadhebhyaḥ | praiṣyan janam iva śevadhiṃ takmānaṃ pari dadmasi

To the Gandhāris, the Mūjavants, the Aṅgas, the Magadhas we hand over the fever, like one dispatching a treasure to a person.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition