Atharva Veda
Chapters
Book XIX — Hymn XXXVIII

HYMN XXXVIII

A protective charm

Never Consumption, never curse touches the man, Arundhati!
Whom the delicious odour of the healing Bdellium penetrates
Consumptions flee apart from it as from a wild beast fly the
deer.
If thou, O Bdellium, art produced from Sindhu or hast come
from sea,
The quality of both have I taken to keep this man unscathed.