Atharva Veda: Book 1 – Hymn 3
HYMN III
A charm against constipation and suppression of urine
1 We know the father of the shaft, Parjanya strong with hundred
powers:
By this may I bring health unto thy body: let the channels pour
their burthen freely as of old.
2 We know the father of the shaft, Mitra, the Lord of hundred
powers:
By this, etc.
3 We know the father of the shaft, Varuna, strong with hundred
powers: p. a4
By this, etc.
4 We know the father of the shaft, the Moon endowed with
hundred powers:
By this, etc.
5 We know the father of the shaft, the Sun endowed with hundred
powers:
By this may I bring health unto thy body: let the channels pour
their burthen freely as of old.
6 Whate’er hath gathered, as it flowed, in bowels, bladder, or in
groins,
Thus let the conduit, free from check, pour all its burthen as of
old.
7 I lay the passage open as one cleaves the dam that bars the
lake:
Thus let, etc.
8 Now hath the portal been unclosed as, of the sea that holds the
flood:
Thus let, etc.
9 Even as the arrow flies away when loosened from the archer’s
bow,
Thus let the burthen be discharged from channels that are checked
no more.