Book 8. Book 8

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The Hymns Of The Atharvaveda


Book Viii

Tr. By Ralph T.h. Griffith

[1895-6]


Hymn 1: A charm to recover a dying man

Hymn 2: The same

Hymn 3: A prayer for the destruction of demons

Hymn 4: Imprecations on demons

Hymn 5: A charm accompanying investiture with an amulet

Hymn 6: A charm to exercise evil spirits who beset women

Hymn 7: A charm to restore a sick man to health

Hymn 8: Imprecations directed against a hostile army

Hymn 9: An enunciation of cosmogonical, ritual, and metrical doctrine

Hymn 10: A glorification of the mystical abstraction Virj