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Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 7 — Chapter 23

AV 7 23.1

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

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

Bad dreaming, bad living, the demon, the monstrous thing, the niggard-women, all the ill-named ones, the ill-speaking ones — these we make vanish from us.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

The fearful dream, and indigence, the monster, the malignant hags. All female fiends of evil name and wicked tongue we drive afar.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895–96)