Atharva Veda · 103 of 724

HYMN VI

A charm to make a poisoned arrow harmless 1. The Brāhman first was brought to life ten-headed and with faces    ten.   First drinker of the Soma, he made poison ineffectual. 2. Far as the heavens and earth are spread in compass, far as the   Seven Rivers are extended,   So far my spell, the antidote of poison, have I spoken hence, 3. The strong-winged Bird Garutmān first of all, O Poison fed on    thee:   Thou didst not gripe or make him drunk: aye, thou becamest    food for him. 4. Whoever with five fingers hath discharged thee from the crooked    bow,   I from the shaft have charmed away the poison of the fastening    band. 5. The poison have I charmed away from shaft, cement, and feather-    ed end;   Yea, from the barb, the neck, the horn, the poison have I charmed    away. 6. Feeble, O Arrow, is thy shaft, thy poison, too, hath lost its    strength.   Made of a worthless tree, thy bow, O feeble one, is impotent. 7. The men who brayed it, smeared it on, they who discharged it,    sent it forth,   All these are made emasculate, emasculate the poison-hill. 8. Thy diggers are emasculate, emasculate, O, Plant art thou.   The rugged mountain that produced this poison is emasculate.