Atharva-Veda Samhita/Book VII/Hymn 23 (24)

23 (24). Against ill conditions and beings.

[Yama.—mantroktaduṣvpnanāçanadtvatyam: ānuṣtubham.]

The hymn is merely a repetition of iv. 17. 5 above, and is not found in Pāipp. otherwise than as part of the latter hymn. It is used neither by Kāuç. nor by Vāit. ⌊As to its insertion in the second anuvāka, see p. 389, near top.⌋

Translated: Henry, 9, 62; Griffith, i. 338.

1. Evil-dreaming, evil-living, demon, monster, hags, all the ill-named (f.), ill-voiced—them we make disappear from us.