Atharva-Veda Samhita/Book II
Book II.
⌊The second book is made up mostly of hymns of 5 verses each. It contains 22 such hymns, but also five hymns (namely, 3, 4, 14, 15, and 32) of 6 verses each, five hymns (namely, 5, 17, 27, 29, and 33) of 7 verses each, and four hymns (namely, 10, 12, 24, and 36) of 8 verses each. Compare page 1. The possibilities of critical reduction to the norm are well illustrated by hymns 10, 12, 14, 27; see, for example, the critical notes to ii. 10. 2.
The whole book has been translated by Weber in the Monatsberichte der Kön. Akad. der Wiss. zu Berlin, June, 1870, pages 462-524. This translation was reprinted, with only slight changes, in Indische Studien, vol. xiii. (1873), pages 129-216. The following references to Weber have to do with the reprint.⌋
| Hymn- number |
Page | |
| II. Book the second | ||
| 1 | Mystic | 37 |
| 2 | To Gandharvas and Apsarases | 39 |
| 3 | For relief from flux: with a certain remedy | 40 |
| 4 | Against various evils : with a jan̄giḍá amulet | 42 |
| 5 | Praise and prayer to Indra | 43 |
| 6 | Praise and prayer to Agni | 45 |
| 7 | Against curses and cursers: with a plant | 47 |
| 8 | Against the disease kṣetriyá: with a plant | 48 |
| 9 | Against possession by demons: with an amulet | 50 |
| 10 | For release from evils, and for welfare | 51 |
| 11 | To counteract witchcraft : with an amulet | 53 |
| 12 | ⌊Against such as would thwart my incantations⌋ | 53 |
| 13 | For welfare and long life of an infant | 56 |
| 14 | Against sadā́nvās | 57 |
| 15 | Against fear | 59 |
| 16 | For protection | 60 |
| 17 | For various gifts | 61 |
| 18 | For release from demons and foes | 61 |
| 19 | Against enemies: to Agni (fire) | 62 |
| 20 | The same: to Vāyu (wind) | 63 |
| 21 | The same: to Sūrya (sun) | 63 |
| 22 | The same: to the moon | 63 |
| 23 | The same: to water | 63 |
| 24 | Against kimīdíns, male and female | 63 |
| 25 | Against kāṇvas: with a plant | 64 |
| 26 | For safety and increase of kine | 66 |
| 27 | For victory in disputation: with a plant | 67 |
| 28 | For long life for a certain person (child?) | 68 |
| 29 | For some one's long life and other blessings | 70 |
| 30 | To secure a woman's love | 72 |
| 31 | Against worms | 73 |
| 32 | Against worms | 74 |
| 33 | For expulsion of yákṣma from all parts of the body | 76 |
| 34 | Accompanying the sacrifice of an animal | 77 |
| 35 | To expiate errors in the sacrifice: to Viçvakarman | 79 |
| 36 | To get a husband for a woman | 81 |