A charm for the recovery of a dangerously sick man

Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895], at sacred-texts.com

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HYMN XI

A charm for the recovery of a dangerously sick man

1For life I set thee free by this oblation both from unmarked'.
   decline and from consumption:
  Or if the grasping demon have possessed him, free him from her,.
  O Indra, thou and Agni!
2Be his days ended, be he now departed, be he brought very
   near to death already,
  Out of Destruction's lap again I bring him, save him for life to
   last a hundred autumns. p. a78
3With sacrifice thousand-eyed and hundred-powered, bringing a
   hundred lives, have I restored him,
  That Indra through the autumns may conduct him safe to the
   farther shore of all misfortune.
4Live, waxing in thy strength a hundred autumns, live through
   a hundred springs, a hundred winters!
  Indra, Agni, Savitar, Brihaspati give thee a hundred! With
   hundred-lived oblation have I saved him,
5Breath, Respiration, come to him, as two car-oxen to their
   stall!
  Let all the other deaths, whereof men count a hundred, pass
   away.
6Breath, Respiration, stay ye here. Go ye not hence away from
   him,
  Bring, so that he may reach old age, body and members back
   again.
7I give thee over to old age, make thee the subject of old age.
  Let kindly old age lead thee on. Let all the other deaths, whereof
   men count a hundred, pass away!
8Old age hath girt thee with its bonds even as they bind a bull
   with rope.
  The death held thee at thy birth bound with a firmly-knotted
   noose,
  Therefrom, with both the hands of Truth, Brihaspati hath loose-
   ned thee.