A charm against evil dreams

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

HYMN XLVI

A charm against evil dreams

1Thou, neither quick nor dead, O Sleep, art fraught with Amrit
   of the Gods.
  Thy name is Araru: thy sire is Yama; Varunāni bare thee.
2We know thy birth, O Sleep, thou art son of the sisters of the
  Gods; the minister of Yama thou, thou art Antaka, thou art
  Death.
  So well we know thee who thou art. Sleep, guard us from the
   evil dream.
3As men discharge a debt, as they pay up an eighth and half-an-
   eighth,
  So the whole evil dream do we pay and assign unto our foe.