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Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895], at sacred-texts.com


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HYMN XC

A charm to cure a poisoned man

1The shaft that Rudra hath shot forth against thy members and
   thy heart,
  Here do we draw from thee to-day, and turn it hence to every
   side.
2From all the hundred vessels spread throughout the members of
   thy frame.
  From all those vessels and canals we call the poisonous matter
   forth.
3Worship to thee, the archer, and O Rudra, to thy levelled shaft!
  Yea, worship to thine arrow when it left the bow, and when it
   fell!


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