Yajur Sama Atharvan Vedas

ATHARVA VEDA
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my rival, make my h usband mine alone!
3. He did not, forsooth, call thy name, and thou shalt not delight in this' husband! To the very farthest
distance do we drive our rival.
4. Superior am I, O superior (plant), superior, truly, to superior (women). Now shall my rival be
inferior to those that are inferior!
5. I am overpowering, and thou, (O plant), art completely overpowering. Having both grown full of
power, let us overpower my rival!
6. About thee (my husband) I have placed the overpowering (plant), upon thee placed the very
overpowering one. May thy mind run after me as a calf after the cow, as water along its course!
VI, 138. Charm for depriving a man of his virility.
1. As the best of the plants thou art reputed, O herb: turn this man for me to-day into a eunuch that
wears his hair dressed!
2. Turn him into a eunuch that wears his hair dressed, and into one that wears a hood! Then Indra
with a pair of stones shall break his testicles both!
3. O eunuch, into a eunuch thee I have turned;O castrate, into a castrate thee I have turned; O
weakling, into a weakling thee I have turned! A hood upon his head, and a hair-net do we place.
4. The two canals, fashioned by the gods, in which man's power rests, in thy testicles . . . . . . . . . . . . I
break them with a club.
5. As women break reeds for a mattress with a stone, thus do I break thy member.
I, 18. Charm to remove evil bodily characteristics from a woman.
1. The (foul) mark, the lalâmî (with spot on the forehead), the Arâti (grudging demon), do we drive
out. Then the (signs) that are auspicious (shall remain) with us; (yet) to beget offspring do we bring
the Arâti!
2. May Savitar drive out uncouthness from her feet, may Varuna, Mitra, and Aryaman (drive it) out
from her hands; may Anumati kindly drive it out for us! For happiness the gods have created this
woman.
3. The fierceness that is in thyself, in thy body, or in thy look, all that do we strike away with our
charm. May god Savitar prosper thee!
4. The goat-footed, the bull-toothed, her who scares the cattle, the snorting one, the vilîdhî (the
driveling one), the lalâmî (with spot on the forehead), these do we drive from us.
VI, 110. Expiatory charm for a child born under an unlucky star.
1. Of yore, (O Agni), thou wast worthy of supplication at the sacrifice; thou wast the priest in olden
times, and now anew shalt sit (at our sacrifice)! Delight, O Agni, thy own body, and, sacrificing,
bring good fortune here to us!
2. Him that hath been born under the (constellation) gyeshihaghnî ('she that slays the oldest'), or
under the vikritâu ('they that uproot'), save thou from being torn up by the root by Yama (death)! May
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