An Antidote Against Snake Poison

As Varuna, the sage of heaven has given me power, dissolve thy poison with these powerful spells. The poison that is dug, undug and that is inherent, have I seized. Like a stream in a desert thy poison has dried up.

What poison is thine that dries up blood, that I have seized in these. Have I seized thy midmost, thy uppermost sap and also thy lowest, then be gone hence of fright.

My mighty cry is like thunder among the clouds, with my powerful charms do I remove thy sap. I have seized thy poison with men, like light out of darkness, let now the sun rise!

With my sight I smite thy eye, with poison do I smite thy poison, die, O snake, do not live, black upon thee shall thy poison turn!

O Kairat, O spotted one, thou grass-dweller, brown one, listen me, black ones, repulsive ones, stand ye not on the ground near my friend's house. Listening me well, rest quiet in this poison.

I release thee from the fury of the black snake, the taimataya, the brown one, that which live out of water and from those that live together, like the bowstring is loosened from the bow and the chariots from horses.

Both Aligi and Viligi, both father and mother, we know your relations well. Rendered without your sap what would ye do?

Charm Against Witchcraft

The eagle, discovered thee, with its snout the boar dug thee out, seek thou to harm him, O herb, who seeks to injure us, destroy the sorcerer!

Smite down the evil-doers, smite down the black-magicians, then smite down him also who wants to harm us, O herb!

Having cut out a strip from the skin of the sorcerer as if from the body of a stag, do ye, O gods, fasten upon the sorcerer the spell, like an ornament!

Lead the violence back to the violence-maker wizard, grasping it by hand, set it straight before him, that it may slay him, the spell-maker!

Let the witchcraft be for the witchcraft maker, the curse be upon him who pronounces the curse. May the witchcraft roll back, like a chariot of smooth wheels, to him that makes the spell.

Whether a woman or a man has made the magic for evil, we conduct the magic back to him, like a horse led by a horse-halter.

Whether thou hast been made by gods or by men, we take back with the aid of Indra as our ally.

O Agni, winner of battles, do thou subdue the foemen. With a counter spell do we hurl back the spell upon him who made the spell.

O skilled piercer, pierce him, do thou slay him who has made the hell. We do not sharpen thee for him who has not prepared the spell.

Go like a son to a father, like a snake walked upon, and bite. Return thou, O spell, to the spell-maker, as one released from fetters.

Like a she-deer, like a she-elephant, like a hind in heat go leaping, O spell, to its maker!

Straighter than an arrow may the spell fly upon him, O Heaven and Earth, let the spell seize him again, its maker, like a hunter of a deer!