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VIII. Charms In Expiation of Sin and Defilement: VI, 46. Exorcism of evil dreams

Hymns of the Atharva-Veda (Bloomfield, SBE 42) · 1 passage

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1. Thou who art neither alive nor dead, the immortal child of the gods art thou, O Sleep! Varunânî is thy mother, Yama (death) thy father, Araru is thy name. 2. We know, O Sleep, thy birth, thou art the son of the divine women-folk, the instrument of Yama (death)! Thou art the ender, thou art death! Thus do we know thee, O Sleep: do thou, O Sleep, protect us from evil dreams! 3. As one pays off a sixteenth, an eighth, or an (entire) debt, thus do we transfer every evil dream upon our enemy. Next: VII, 115. Charm for the removal of evil characteristics, and the acquisition of auspicious ones

Source: Internet Sacred Text Archive, file hin/sbe42/av197.htm.

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