Atharva Veda · 25 of 724

HYMN XXV

A prayer to fever, as a charm against his attacks 1. When Agni blazed when he had pierced the Waters, whereat the   Law-observers paid him homage,   There, men assever, was thy loftiest birthplace: O Fever, yield-    ing to our prayer avoid us. 2. If thou be fiery glow, or inflammation, or if thy birthplace call    for chips of fuel,   Rack is thy name, God of the sickly yellow! O Fever, yielding    to our prayer avoid us. 3. Be thou distress, or agonizing torment, be thou the son King   Varuna hath begotten,   Rack isthy name, God of the sickly yellow! O Fever, yielding to    our prayer avoid us. 4. I offer homage to the chilly Fever, to his fierce burning glow I    offer homage.   Be adoration paid to Fever coming each other day, the third, of    two days running.