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HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA.
VI, 44. Charm against excessive discharges from
the body. 1. The heavens have stood still, the earth has stood still, all creatures have stood still. The trees that sleep erect have stood still : may this disease of thine stand still !
2. Of the hundred remedies which thou hast, of the thousand that have been collected, this is the most excellent cure for discharges, the best remover of disease.
3. Thou art the urine of Rudra, the navel of amrita (ambrosia). Thy name, forsooth, is vishanaka, (thou art) arisen from the foundation of the Fathers, a remover of diseases produced by the winds (of the body).
I, 3. Charm against constipation and retention
of urine. 1. We know the father of the arrow, Parganya, of hundredfold power. With this (charm) may I render comfortable thy body: make thy outpouring upon the earth ; out of thee may it come with the sound bål!
2. We know the father of the arrow, Mitra, &c. 3. We know the father of the arrow, Varuna, &c. 4. We know the father of the arrow, Kandra, &c. 5. We know the father of the arrow, Surya, &c.
6. That which has accumulated in thy entrails, in thy canals, in thy bladder—thus let thy urine be released, out completely, with the sound bål!
7. I split open thy penis like the dike of a lakethus let thy urine be released, out completely, with the sound bâl!
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