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C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature.
An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

An Incantation

By Indian Literature

From the ‘Atharva-Veda’: Translation of Edward Washburn Hopkins

THE SIN-HATED, god-born plant, which frees from the curse as the waters wash out a spot, has washed away all curses, the curse of my rival and of my sister. I have put under my feet the curse of the Brahman…. With this plant protect my wife, protect my child, protect our property…. May the curse [of my rival] return to the curser…. I smite the ribs of the foe that has the evil eye.