Atharvaveda 8.6

The two spouse-finders which thy mother rubbed up for thee when born (fem.)—for them ⌊tátra⌋ let not the ill-named one be greedy, the aliṅça nor the vatsápa (calf-drinker or -protector?).

Palāla (straw) and anupalāla (after-straw), çárku, kóka (cuckoo), malimlucá (robber), palī́jaka, the entwiner (āçréṣa), the wrap-garmented, the bear-necked, the winking one.

Approach (saṁ-vṛt) thou not; creep thou not on; creep not down between the thighs; I make for her a remedy, the bajá, expeller of the ill-named.

Both the ill-named and the well-named—both seek approach (saṁvṛ́t); the niggards (arā́ya) we smite away; let the well-named seek what is woman's (strāíṇa).

The ásura that is black, hairy, tuft-born, also snouted (túṇḍika)—the niggards we smite away from her pudenda, from her buttocks (bhánsas).

The after-snuffling, fore-feeling, and the much-licking flesh-eater, the niggards, the dog-kiṣkins, hath the brown bajá made to disappear.

He who lies with (ni-pad) thee in sleep, having become [like] a brother and like a father—them, eunuch-formed, tiara-decked (tirīṭín), let the bajá force (sah) from here.

He who surprises (tsar) thee sleeping, who tries to harm thee waking—them the circling (pari-kram) sun hath made to vanish away like a shadow.

Whoever makes this woman one having a dead child (-vastá), or a miscarriage, him, O herb, do thou make disappear, lustful ⌊accusative⌋ for her, slippery.

They who dance around the dwellings (çā́lā) in the evening, making donkey-noises—they that [are] kusū́las (granaries) and kukṣilás (paunchy), exalted (kakubhá), karúmas, srímas—these, O herb, with thy smell do thou make to disappear scattered.

The kukúndhas, the kukū́rabhas, that bear skins (kṛ́tti), pelts (? dūrçá), dancing on like impotent men, that make a noise in the forest—them we make disappear from here.

They who do not endure yonder sun, burning down from the sky, the niggards, buck-clothed, ill-smelling, red-mouthed, the mákakas, we make to disappear.

They who, putting their excessive self on the shoulder, carry [it], thrusters-forth of women's hips—O Indra, make the demons disappear.

They who go before a woman, bearing horns (pl.) in the hand, stayers in the oven, laughing out, who make light in the tuft—them we make to disappear from here.

Of whom the front-feet are behind, the heels in front, the faces in front, who are threshing-floor-born, dung-smoke-born, who are úruṇḍas and maṭmaṭás, pot-testicled, ayāçús (impotent?)—these from her, O Brahmaṇaspati, do thou make to disappear by attention (? pratībodhá).

With eyes cast about, not looking forward (? ápracan̄kaça), womenless be the eunuchs; make to fall down, O remedy, him who, not her husband, tries to approach this woman that has a husband.

The bristling, hermit-haired, grinding up, much handling one, hastening up, copper-colored, snouted (? tuṇḍéla) and çáluḍa, pierce thou forth with the foot, with the heel, as a kicking cow a pot.

Whoever shall handle thy embryo, or shall make it born dead—let the brown one, with formidable bow, make him pierced to the heart.

They who suddenly make die those that are born, [who] lie by the bearing [women]—the Gandharvas, woman-seekers (?), let the brown one drive, as the wind a cloud.

Let [her] maintain what is left (?); what is set, let not that fall down; let the two formidable remedies, to be borne in the under garment, defend thine embryo.

From the rim-nosed, the tan̄galvà, the shady (? chā́yaka) and naked, from the kimīdín, let the brown one protect thee about for progeny, for husband.

From the two-mouthed, the four-eyed, the five-footed, the fingerless one, from the much twining twiner (vṛ́nta) that creeps forth upon [one], do thou protect [her] about.

They who eat raw meat, and who the flesh of men, the hairy ones [that] devour embryos—them we make to disappear from here.

They that creep away from the sun, as a daughter-in-law away from her father-in-law—let both bajá and pin̄gá pierce in into their heart.

Pin̄gá, defend thou [the child] in process of birth; let them not make the male female; let not the egg-eaters injure the embryos; drive thou the kimīdíns from here.

Childlessness, still-birth, also crying, guilt (aghá), barrenness (? āvayá)—that do thou attach to [our] enemy (ápriya), as if having made a garland from a tree.