Yajur Sama Atharvan Vedas

ATHARVA VEDA
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II, 9. Possession by demons of disease, cured by an amulet of ten kinds
of wood.
1. O (amulet) of ten kinds of wood, release this man from the demon (rakshas) and the fit (grâhi)
which has seized upon.(gagrâha) his joints! Do thou, moreover, O plant, lead him forth to the world
of the living!
2. He has come, he has gone forth, he has joined the community of the living. And he has become the
father of sons, and the most happy of men!
3. This person has come to his senses, he has come to the cities of the living. For he (now) has a
hundred physicians, and also a thousand herbs.
4. The gods have found thy arrangement, (O amulet); the Brahmans, moreover, the plants. All the
gods have found thy arrangement upon the earth.
5. (The god) that has caused (disease) shall perform the cure; he is himself the best physician.
Let him indeed, the holy one, prepare remedies for thee, together with the (earthly) physician!
IV, 6. Charm against demons (pisâka) conceived as the cause of disease.
1. May Agni Vaisvânara, the bull of unfailing strength, burn up him that is evil-disposed, and desires
to harm us, and him that plans hostile deeds against us!
2. Between the two rows of teeth of Agni Vaisvânara do I place him that plans to injure us, when we
are not planning to injure him; and him that plans to injure us, when we do plan to injure him.
Those who hound us in our chambers, while shouting goes on in the night of the new moon, and the
other flesh-devourers who plan to injure us, all of them do I overcome with might.
4. With might I overcome the Pisâkas, rob them of their property; all evil-disposed (demons) do I
slay: may my device succeed!
5. With the gods who vie with, and measure their swiftness with this sun, with those that are in the
rivers, and in the mountains, do I, along with my cattle, consort.
6. I plague the Pisâkas as the tiger the cattle-owners. As dogs who have seen a lion, these do not find
a refuge.
7. My strength does not lie with Pisâkas, nor with thieves, nor with prowlers in the forest. From the
village which I enter the Pisâkas vanish away.
8. From the village which my fierce power has entered the Pisâkas vanish away; they do not devise
evil.
9. They who irritate me with their jabber, as (buzzing) mosquitoes the elephant, them I regard as
wretched (creatures), as small vermin upon people.
10. May Nirriti (the goddess of destruction) take hold of this one, as a horse with the halter! The fool
who is wroth with me is not freed from (her) snare.
II, 25. Charm with the plant prisniparnî against the demon of disease,
called kanva.
1. The goddess Prisniparnî has prepared prosperity for us, mishap for Nirriti (the goddess of
destruction). For she is a fierce devourer of the Kanvas: her, the mighty, have I employed.
2. The Prisniparnî was first begotten powerful; with her do I lop off the heads of the evil brood, as
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