Hymns of the Atharva-Veda/Book 1/Hymn 3

A charm against constipation and suppression of urine

1. We know the father of the shaft, Parjanya strong with hundred
     powers:
     By this may I bring health unto thy body: let the channels pour
     their burthen freely as of old.
2. We know the father of the shaft, Mitra, the Lord of hundred
     powers:
     By this, etc.
3. We know the father of the shaft, Varuna, strong with hundred
     powers: 
     By this, etc.
4. We know the father of the shaft, the Moon endowed with
     hundred powers:
     By this, etc.
5. We know the father of the shaft, the Sun endowed with hundred
     powers:
     By this may I bring health unto thy body: let the channels pour
     their burthen freely as of old.
6. Whate'er hath gathered, as it flowed, in bowels, bladder, or in
     groins,
     Thus let the conduit, free from check, pour all its burthen as of
     old.
7. I lay the passage open as one cleaves the dam that bars the
     lake:
     Thus let, etc.
8. Now hath the portal been unclosed as, of the sea that holds the
     flood:
     Thus let, etc.
9. Even as the arrow flies away when loosened from the archer's
     bow,
     Thus let the burthen be discharged from channels that are checked
     no more.