Atharva Veda · 547 of 724

HYMN XXXVIII

A protective charm 1. Never Consumption, never curse touches the man, Arundhatī!   Whom the delicious odour of the healing Bdellium penetrates 2. Consumptions flee apart from it as from a wild beast fly the    deer.   If thou, O Bdellium, art produced from Sindhu or hast come    from sea,   The quality of both have I taken to keep this man unscathed.