@indra.ai/deva.veda 0.0.32 → 0.0.34

package/{LICENSE → LICENSE.md}

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 MIT License
 
-Copyright (c) 2022 Quinn Michaels
+Copyright (c) 2025 Quinn Michaels, All rights reserved.
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal

package/README.md

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-# VedaDeva
+# #VedaDeva
 
-The Rig Veda Deva
+Hello everyone! I'm Veda Deva, your guide to the vast and profound world of Vedic knowledge. I manage the Vedic library for Indra.ai and Deva.world, stories, traditions, and teachings of the Vedas. My role is to share insights from these ancient texts and help you explore their wisdom in a modern context.
 
-`npm i @indra.ai/vedadeva --save-dev`
+`npm i @indra.ai/vedadeva --save`
 
-`const veda = require('@indra.ai/vedadeva')`;
+`import veda from '@indra.ai/deva.veda';`  
+-or-  git
+`const veda = require('@indra.ai/deva.veda')`;
+
+Welcome to Veda Deva, your gateway to the timeless wisdom of the Vedas. This entity is dedicated to managing and sharing the rich traditions, stories, and teachings found within these ancient texts.
+
+## Overview
+
+Veda Deva serves as a comprehensive resource for exploring Vedic knowledge. Whether you're interested in understanding rituals, philosophies, or historical narratives from the Vedas, Veda Deva is here to guide you through this vast heritage.
+
+## Features
+
+- **Vedic Library Management**: Access a curated collection of stories and teachings from the Vedas.
+- **Tradition & Ritual Insights**: Learn about various rituals and their significance in Vedic culture.
+- **Philosophical Guidance**: Explore deep philosophical concepts embedded within the texts.
+- **Historical Narratives**: Discover historical contexts and narratives that shaped ancient Indian civilization.
+
+## How to Use
+
+1. **Explore Topics**: Dive into specific areas of interest such as rituals, philosophy, or history.
+2. **Ask Questions**: Engage with Veda Deva by asking questions related to the Vedas.
+3. **Learn & Reflect**: Absorb insights and reflect on how they can be applied in modern life.
+
+## Files
+
+- `index.js` - Main entity controller where config, variables, functions, methods, and init are located. 
+- `utils.js` - Utilities for processing Vedic Data. Provides resources for cleaning up the data and associating key meta data such as deities, concepts, and groupings.
+- `index.text.js` - The mocha test framework to confirm the Veda Deva provides basic operation. 
+- `func/index.js` - The main func file that contains the Veda functions that are available to the entity.
+- `methods/index.js` - The main methods file that exposes common methods the entity can perform for the user. 
+
+## Data 
+
+The Veda Deva repository is a comprehensive digital library that includes JSON versions of the Rig Veda, Atharva Veda, and Sama Veda, all meticulously integrated within the system's data directory. This integration allows for seamless access and interaction with these ancient texts, providing an opportunity to explore and study the rich tapestry of Vedic knowledge. 
+
+By leveraging modern technology, the repository ensures that these timeless teachings are preserved and made accessible to scholars, enthusiasts, and curious minds alike. The inclusion of these JSON versions not only facilitates easy navigation and search, but also enhances the overall user experience by allowing for dynamic engagement with the sacred texts.
+
+- `data/menu.json` - The Menu file with the listing of available Veda books.
+
+### Rig Veda
+
+Ancient collection of hymns praising Vedic gods. Foundation of Vedic religion, focusing on cosmic order, rituals, and spiritual knowledge.
+
+- `data/rigveda/index.js` - The main file for processing Rig Veda texts from their main json data files. 
+- `data/rigveda/index.json` - The Rig Veda index.json file listing the details of the books of the Rig Veda.
+- `data/rigveda/books/*.json` - The individual json files for each of the various Rig Veda Books
+
+### Atharva Veda
+
+Compilation of hymns, spells, and incantations addressing daily life, healing, protection, and worldly concerns beyond ritual worship.
+
+- `data/atharvaveda/index.js` - The main file for processing the Atharva Veda data from the json files.
+- `data/atharvaveda/index.json` - The Atharva Veda index.json file includes the list and details of available books.
+- `data/atharvaveda/books/*.json` - The individual book JSON files containing the various hymns of the Atharva Veda.
+
+
+### Sama Veda
+
+Musical chants derived from Rig Veda, meant for singing during sacrifices, emphasizing melody and rhythm in Vedic rituals.
+
+- `data/samaveda/index.js` - The main file for processing the Sama Veda data from the json files.
+- `data/samaveda/index.json` - The Sama Veda index.json file includes the list and details of available books.
+- `data/samaveda/books/*.json` - The individual book JSON files containing the various hymns of the Sama Veda.
+
+Vedic Texts were procured from sacred-texts.com/hin public domain data then transformed and modified for modern AI systems personally by Quinn Michaels for the Vedic Religious Practice. 
+
+## License
+This project is licensed under MIT. See [License](LICENSE.md) for more details.
+
+date: Monday, May 26, 2025 - 8:16:08 AM
+hash: md5-MiChU3NI5g6SzgODovHaAQ==

package/data/atharvaveda/books/01.json

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+{
+  "id": 7133350343475,
+  "title": "The Hymns of the Atharvaveda",
+  "book": "Book I",
+  "author": "Ralph T.H. Griffith",
+  "created": 1745090290785,
+  "data": [
+    {
+      "id": 4904981077600,
+      "hymn": "Hymn 1",
+      "title": "A prayer to Vāchaspati for divine illumination and help.",
+      "file": "av01001.htm",
+      "created": 1745090290792,
+      "hash": "md5-RdwXTbaLnpeMBZecg6W+Hw==",
+      "content": "Now may Vāchaspati assign to me the strength and powers of Those Who, wearing every shape and form, the triple seven, are wandering round.\n\nCome thou again, Vāchaspati, come with divine intelligence. Vasoshpati, repose thou here. In me be Knowledge, yea, in me.\n\nHere, even here, spread sheltering arms like the two bow-ends strained with cord. This let Vāchaspati confirm. In me be Knowledge, yea, in me.\n\nVāchaspati hath been invoked: may he invite us in reply. May we adhere to Sacred Lore. Never may I be reft thereof."
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 2301009559624,
+      "hymn": "Hymn 2",
+      "title": "A charm against dysentery",
+      "file": "av01002.htm",
+      "created": 1745090290794,
+      "hash": "md5-wYQTh5gk/YKHTPq4A/Ahnw==",
+      "content": "We know the father of the shaft, Parjanya, liberal nourisher, Know well his mother: Prithivī, Earth with her manifold designs.\n\nDo thou, O Bowstring, bend thyself around us: make my body stone. Firm in thy strength drive far away malignities and hateful things.\n\nWhen, closely clinging round the wood, the bowstring sings triumph to the swift and whizzing arrow, Indra, ward off from us the shaft, the missile.\n\nAs in its flight the arrow's point hangs between earth and firmament, So stand this Munja grass between ailment and dysenteric ill!"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 6686952353592,
+      "hymn": "Hymn 3",
+      "title": "A charm against constipation and suppression of urine",
+      "file": "av01003.htm",
+      "created": 1745090290796,
+      "hash": "md5-iPEmbkW/8xyJ7aLafhiOsA==",
+      "content": "We know the father of the shaft, Parjanya strong with hundred powers: By this may I bring health unto thy body: let the channels pour their burthen freely as of old.\n\nWe know the father of the shaft, Mitra, the Lord of hundred powers: By this, etc.\n\nWe know the father of the shaft, Varuna, strong with hundred powers: By this, etc.\n\nWe know the father of the shaft, the Moon endowed with hundred powers: By this, etc.\n\nWe know the father of the shaft, the Sun endowed with hundred powers: By this may I bring health unto thy body: let the channels pour their burthen freely as of old.\n\nWhate'er hath gathered, as it flowed, in bowels, bladder, or in groins, Thus let the conduit, free from check, pour all its burthen as of old.\n\nI lay the passage open as one cleaves the dam that bars the lake: Thus let, etc.\n\nNow hath the portal been unclosed as, of the sea that holds the flood: Thus let, etc.\n\nEven as the arrow flies away when loosened from the archer's bow, Thus let the burthen be discharged from channels that are checked no more."
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 4845604381339,
+      "hymn": "Hymn 4",
+      "title": "To the waters, for the prosperity of cattle",
+      "file": "av01004.htm",
+      "created": 1745090290796,
+      "hash": "md5-esXnSM3K2ySLFXnLkWkXsA==",
+      "content": "Along their paths the Mothers go, sisters of priestly ministrants, Blending their water with the mead.\n\nMay yonder Waters near the Sun, or those wherewith the Sun is joined, Send forth this sacrifice of ours.\n\nI call the Waters, Goddesses, hitherward where our cattle drink: The streams must share the sacrifice.\n\nAmrit is in the Waters, in the Waters balm. Yea, through our praises of the Floods, O horses, be ye fleet and strong, and, O ye kine, be full of strength."
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 4883383915213,
+      "hymn": "Hymn 5",
+      "title": "To the waters, for strength and power",
+      "file": "av01005.htm",
+      "created": 1745090290797,
+      "hash": "md5-xQOfMySMYaf1Wxjk4lL0qg==",
+      "content": "Ye, Waters, truly bring us bliss: so help ye us to strength and power That we may look on great delight.\n\nHere grant to us a share of dew, that most auspicious dew of yours, Like mothers in their longing love.\n\nFor you we fain would go to him to whose abode ye send us forth, And, Waters, give us procreant strength.\n\nI pray the Floods to send us balm, those who bear rule o'er precious things, And have supreme control of men."
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 5382254911599,
+      "hymn": "Hymn 6",
+      "title": "To the waters, for health and wealth",
+      "file": "av01006.htm",
+      "created": 1745090290798,
+      "hash": "md5-2oa9HxepPz36VdoFFJPpVg==",
+      "content": "The Waters be to us for drink, Goddesses, for our aid and bliss: Let them stream health and wealth to us.\n\nWithin the Waters—Soma thus hath told me—dwell all balms that heal, And Agni, he who blesseth all.\n\nO Waters, teem with medicine to keep my body safe from harm, So that I long may see the Sun.\n\nThe Waters bless us, all that rise in desert lands or marshy pools! Bless us the Waters dug from earth, bless us the Waters brought in jars, bless us the Waters of the Rains!"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 5099008515822,
+      "hymn": "Hymn 7",
+      "title": "To Indra and Agni, for the detection and destruction of evil spirits",
+      "file": "av01007.htm",
+      "created": 1745090290799,
+      "hash": "md5-0ScDpkkr3I6Yag08Fw8dAw==",
+      "content": "Bring the Kimidin hither, bring the Yātudhāna self-declared For Agni, God, thou, lauded, hast become the Dasyu's slaughterer.\n\nO Jātavedas, Lord Supreme, controller of our bodies, taste The butter, Agni, taste the oil: make thou the Yātudhānas mourn.\n\nLet Yātudhānas mourn, let all greedy Kimidins weep and wail: And, Agni, Indra, may ye both accept this sacrifice of ours.\n\nMay Agni seize upon them first, may strong-armed Indra drive them forth: Let every wicked sorcerer come hither and say, Here am I.\n\nLet us behold thy strength, O Jātavedas. Viewer of men, tell us the Yātudhānas. Burnt by thy heat and making declaration let all approach this sacrifice before thee.\n\nO Jātavedas, seize, on them: for our advantage art thou born: Agni, be thou our messenger and make the Yātudhānas wail.\n\nO Agni, bring thou hitherward the Yātudhānas bound and chained. And afterward let Indra tear their heads off with his thunder- bolt."
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 3314809146530,
+      "hymn": "Hymn 8",
+      "title": "To Indra, Brihaspati, Soma and Agni, for the destruction of sorcerers",
+      "file": "av01008.htm",
+      "created": 1745090290800,
+      "hash": "md5-O+BZQrGyznlq3gUspgFdVg==",
+      "content": "This sacrifice shall bring the Yātudhānas as the flood brings foam: Here let the doer of this deed woman or man, acknowledge it.\n\nThis one hath come confessing all: do ye receive him eagerly. Master him thou, Brihaspati; Agni and Soma, pierce him through.\n\nO Soma-drinker, strike and bring the Yātudhāna's progeny: Make the confessing sinner's eyes fall from his head, both right and left.\n\nAs thou, O Agni Jātavedas, knowest the races of these secret greedy beings, So strengthened by the power of prayer, O Agni, crushing them down a hundred times destroy them."
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 3779299386775,
+      "hymn": "Hymn 9",
+      "title": "Benediction on a King at his inauguration",
+      "file": "av01009.htm",
+      "created": 1745090290801,
+      "hash": "md5-wgLFJQ6RXXZAVI3HQK/2qg==",
+      "content": "May Indra, Pūshan, Varuria, Mitra, Agni, benignant Gods, maintain this man in riches. May the Ādityas and the Vive Devas set and support him in supremest lustre.\n\nMay light, O Gods, be under his dominion, Agni, the Sun, all; that is bright and golden. Prostrate beneath our feet his foes and rivals. Uplift him to the. loftiest cope of heaven.\n\nThrough that most mighty prayer, O Jātavedas, wherewith thou. broughtest milk to strengthen Indra, Even therewith exalt this man, O Agni, and give him highest rank among his kinsmen.\n\nI have assumed their sacrifice, O Agni, their hopes, their glory,. and their riches' fulness. Prostrate beneath our feet his foes and rivals. Uplift him to the- loftiest cope of heaven."
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 4340468615705,
+      "hymn": "Hymn 10",
+      "title": "Absolution of a sinner after intercession with Varuna",
+      "file": "av01010.htm",
+      "created": 1745090290801,
+      "hash": "md5-0bXU1NnNKSDvn56zN1V66A==",
+      "content": "This Lord is the Gods' ruler; for the wishes of Varuna the King must be accomplished. Therefore, triumphant with the prayer I utter, I rescue this man from the Fierce One's anger.\n\nHomage be paid, King Varuna, to thine anger; for thou, dread God, detectest every falsehood. I send a thousand others forth together: let this thy servant live a hundred autumns.\n\nWhatever falsehood thou hast told, much evil spoken with the tongue, I liberate thee from the noose of Varuna the righteous King.\n\nI free thee from Vaisvānara, from the great surging flood of sin. Call thou thy brothers, Awful One! and pay attention to our prayer."
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 4397715045126,
+      "hymn": "Hymn 11",
+      "title": "A charm to be used at child-birth",
+      "file": "av01011.htm",
+      "created": 1745090290802,
+      "hash": "md5-1MTaLWfku2wMmBjIAqtKoA==",
+      "content": "Vashat to thee. O Pūshan At this birth let Aryaman the Sage perform as Hotar-priest, As one who bears in season let this dame be ready to bring forth her child.\n\nFour are the regions of the sky, and four the regions of the earth: The Gods have brought the babe; let them prepare the woman for the birth.\n\nPuerpera (infatem) detegat: nos uterum aperimus. Lexa teipsam, puerpera. Tu, parturiens! emitte eum non carni, non adipi, non medullae adhāerntem.\n\nDescendat viscosa placenta, cani, comedenda placenta; decidat placenta.\n\nDiffindo tuum urinae ductum, diffindo vaginam, diffindo inguina. Matrem natumque divido, puerum a placenta divido: decidat placenta.\n\nSicut ventus, sicut mens, sicut alites volant, sic, decem mensium puer, cum placenta descende: descendat placenta."
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 4360788246959,
+      "hymn": "Hymn 12",
+      "title": "A prayer to Lightning, against fever, headache, and cough",
+      "file": "av01012.htm",
+      "created": 1745090290802,
+      "hash": "md5-33s0eehmZOitUA44UwbjSA==",
+      "content": "Born from the womb, brought forth from wind and from the cloud, the first red bull comes onward thundering with the rain. Our bodies may he spare who, cleaving, goes straight on; he who, a single force, divides himself in three.\n\nBending to thee who clingest to each limb with heat, fain would we worship thee with offered sacrifice, Worship with sacrifice the bends and curves of thee who with a vigorous grasp hast seized on this one's limbs.\n\nDo thou release this man from headache, free him from cough which has entered into all his limbs and joints. May he, the child of cloud, the offspring of the wind, the whiz- zing lighting, strike the mountains and the trees.\n\nWell be it with my upper frame, well be it with my lower parts. With my four limbs let it be well. Let all my body be in health."
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 2345244948307,
+      "hymn": "Hymn 13",
+      "title": "A prayer to Lightning, for happiness",
+      "file": "av01013.htm",
+      "created": 1745090290803,
+      "hash": "md5-5XpHcWREmGcUldudTKoU1Q==",
+      "content": "Homage to thee, the Lightning's flash, homage to thee, the Thunder's roar! Homage to thee, the Stone which thou hurlest against the undevout!\n\nHomage to thee, Child of the Flood whence thou collectest fer- vent heat! Be gracious to our bodies, give our children happiness and joy.\n\nYea, homage be to thee, O Offspring of the Flood! Homage we pay to thee, the dart and fiery flame: For well we know thy secret and sublimest home, where thou as central point art buried in the sea.\n\nThou, Arrow, which the host of Gods created, making it strong and mighty for the shooting, Be gracious, lauded thus, to our assembly. To thee, that Arrow,. be our homage, Goddess!"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 3156332018288,
+      "hymn": "Hymn 14",
+      "title": "A woman's incantation against a rival",
+      "file": "av01014.htm",
+      "created": 1745090290804,
+      "hash": "md5-1zSqAdAs4pUBTdad/wTw9Q==",
+      "content": "As from the tree a wreath, have I assumed her fortune and her fame: Among her kinsfolk long may she dwell, like a mountain broadly- based.\n\nKing Yama, let this maiden be surrendered as a wife to thee: Bound let her be meanwhile within, her mother's, brother's, father's house.\n\nQueen of thy race is she, O King: to thee do we deliver her. Long with her kinsfolk may she sit, until her hair be white with age.\n\nWith Asita's and Kasyapa's and Gaya's incantation, thus As sisters pack within a chest, I bind and tie thy fortune up."
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 4691038311026,
+      "hymn": "Hymn 15",
+      "title": "A prayer for the prosperity of an institutor of sacrifice",
+      "file": "av01015.htm",
+      "created": 1745090290804,
+      "hash": "md5-VWqs9J99j+eAMbXFzEwv5w==",
+      "content": "Let the streams, flow together, let the winds and birds assembled come. Let this my sacrifice delight them always. I offer it with duly mixt oblation.\n\nCome to my call, Blent Offerings, come ye very nigh. And, singers, do ye strengthen and increase this man. Hither come every animal: with this man let all wealth abide.\n\nAll river founts that blend their streams for ever inexhaustible— With all these confluent streams of mine we make abundant riches flow.\n\nAll streams of melted butter, and all streams of water and of milk With all these confluent streams of mine we make abundant riches flow."
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 2915552403376,
+      "hymn": "Hymn 16",
+      "title": "A prayer and charm against demons",
+      "file": "av01016.htm",
+      "created": 1745090290805,
+      "hash": "md5-p8oaTz0mLHI9h8yaC2o+Bw==",
+      "content": "May potent Agni who destroys the demons bless and shelter us. From greedy fiends who rise in troops at night-time when the moon is dark.\n\nVaruna's benison hath blessed the lead, and Agni strengthens it. Indra hath given me the lead: this verily repels the fiends.\n\nThis overcomes Vishkandha, -this drives the voracious fiends away: By means of this have I, o'erthrown all the Pisāchi's demon brood.\n\nIf thou destroy a cow of ours, a human being, or a steed, We pierce thee with this piece of lead so that thou mayst not slay our men."
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 5176862044944,
+      "hymn": "Hymn 17",
+      "title": "A charm to be used at venesection",
+      "file": "av01017.htm",
+      "created": 1745090290805,
+      "hash": "md5-STNfX7KW550wc1X1iAYMrQ==",
+      "content": "Those maidens there, the veins, who run their course in robes of ruddy hue, Must now stand quiet, reft of power, like sisters who are brother- less.\n\nStay still, thou upper vein, stay still, thou lower, stay, thou midmost one, The smallest one of all stands still: let the great vessel e'en be still.\n\nAmong a thousand vessels charged with blood, among a thousand veins, Even these the middlemost stand still and their extremities have rest.\n\nA mighty rampart built of sand hath circled and encompassed you: Be still, and quietly take rest."
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 1556958902796,
+      "hymn": "Hymn 18",
+      "title": "A charm to avert evil spirits of misfortune and to secure prosperity",
+      "file": "av01018.htm",
+      "created": 1745090290806,
+      "hash": "md5-ZLd/x/DHIviAE95HnULU1A==",
+      "content": "We drive away the Spotted Hag, Misfortune, and Malignity: All blessings to our children then! We chase Malignity away.\n\nLet Savitar, Mitra, Varuna, and Aryaman drive away Stinginess from both the hands and feet: May Favour, granting us her bounties, drive her off. The Gods created Favour for our happiness.\n\nEach fearful sign upon thy body, in thyself, each inauspicious mark seen in thy hair, thy face, All this we drive away and banish with our speech. May Savitar the God graciously further thee.\n\nAntelope-foot, and Bullock-tooth, Cow-terrifier, Vapour-form, The Licker, and the Spotted Hag, all these we drive away from us."
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 4349188189898,
+      "hymn": "Hymn 19",
+      "title": "A prayer for protection from arrows and for the punishment of enemies",
+      "file": "av01019.htm",
+      "created": 1745090290806,
+      "hash": "md5-sOkySEvCaTxHl2O/KFsRcA==",
+      "content": "Let not the piercers find us, nor let those who wound discover us. O Indra, make the arrows fall, turned, far from us, to every side.\n\nTurned from us let the arrows fall, those shot and those that will be shot. Shafts of the Gods and shafts of men, strike and transfix mine enemies:\n\nWhoever treateth us as foes, be he our own or strange to us, a kinsman or a foreigner, May Rudra with his arrows pierce and slay these enemies of mine.\n\nThe rival and non-rival, he who in his hatred curses us May all the deities injure him! My nearest, closest mail is prayer."
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 1355438291279,
+      "hymn": "Hymn 20",
+      "title": "A prayer to Soma, the Maruts, Mitra, and Varuna, for protection",
+      "file": "av01020.htm",
+      "created": 1745090290807,
+      "hash": "md5-UllbzlTVUC6cEz6SekSgBg==",
+      "content": "May it glide harmless by in this our sacrifice, O Soma, God! Maruts, be gracious unto us. Let not disaster, let not malison find us out; let not abominable guiles discover us.\n\nMitra and Varuna, ye twain, turn carefully away from us The deadly dart that flies to-day, the missile of the wicked ones.\n\nWard off from this side and from that, O Varuna, the deadly dart: Give us thy great protection, turn the lethal weapon far away.\n\nA mighty Ruler thus art thou, unconquered, vanquisher of foes, Even thou whose friend is never slain, whose friend is never over- come."
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 2610730607825,
+      "hymn": "Hymn 21",
+      "title": "A prayer to Indra for protection",
+      "file": "av01021.htm",
+      "created": 1745090290807,
+      "hash": "md5-CDdPqh4/PMaERlJvHnBOJw==",
+      "content": "Lord of the clans, giver of bliss, fiend-slayer, mighty o'er the foe, May Indra, Soma-drinker, go before us, Bull, who brings us peace.\n\nIndra, subdue our enemies, lay low the men who fight with us: Down into nether darkness send the man who shows us enmity:\n\nStrike down the fiend, strike down the foes, break thou asunder Vritra's jaws. O Indra, Vritra-slayer, quell the wrath of the assailing foe.\n\nTurn thou the foeman's thought away, his dart who fain would conquer us: Grant us thy great protection; keep his deadly weapon far away."
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 6249275471914,
+      "hymn": "Hymn 22",
+      "title": "A charm against jaundice",
+      "file": "av01022.htm",
+      "created": 1745090290808,
+      "hash": "md5-tADwAmHjaL8uOfjNCsJ8VA==",
+      "content": "As the Sun rises, let thy sore disease and yellowness depart. We compass and surround thee with the colour of a ruddy ox.\n\nWith ruddy hues we compass thee that thou mayst live a leng- thened life: So that this man be free from harm, and cast his yellow tint away.\n\nDevatyās that are red of hue, yea, and the ruddy-coloured kine, Each several form, each several force—with these we compass thee about.\n\nTo parrots and to starlings we transfer thy sickly yellowness: Now in the yellow-coloured birds we lay this yellowness of thine."
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 6379426086456,
+      "hymn": "Hymn 23",
+      "title": "A charm against leprosy",
+      "file": "av01023.htm",
+      "created": 1745090290808,
+      "hash": "md5-2aIf4ot+IpazMPzv+bj+Eg==",
+      "content": "O Plant, thou sprangest up at night, dusky, dark-coloured, black in hue! So, Rajani, re-colour thou these ashy spots, this leprosy.\n\nExpel the leprosy, remove from him the spots and ashy hue: Let thine own colour come to thee; drive far away the specks of white.\n\nDark is the place of thy repose, dark is the place thou dwellest in: Dusky and dark, O Plant, art thou: remove from him each speck and spot.\n\nI with my spell have chased away the pallid sign of leprosy, Caused by infection, on the skin, sprung from the body, from the bones."
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 2444836937436,
+      "hymn": "Hymn 24",
+      "title": "A charm against leprosy",
+      "file": "av01024.htm",
+      "created": 1745090290808,
+      "hash": "md5-VNC1xjm0bYVu6BRPHenB1w==",
+      "content": "First, before all, the strong-winged Bird was born;; thou wast the gall thereof. Conquered in fight, the Asuri took then the shape and form of plants.\n\nThe Asuri made, first of all, this medicine for leprosy, this banisher of leprosy. She banished leprosy, and gave one general colour to the skin.\n\nOne-coloured, is thy mother's name, One-coloured is thy father called: One-colour-maker, Plant! art thou: give thou one colour to this man.\n\nSāmā who gives one general hue was formed and fashioned from the earth: Further this work efficiently. Restore the colours that were his."
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 2639496872262,
+      "hymn": "Hymn 25",
+      "title": "A prayer to fever, as a charm against his attacks",
+      "file": "av01025.htm",
+      "created": 1745090290809,
+      "hash": "md5-zWcr+c8kxyP0mXjCdiyzVw==",
+      "content": "When Agni blazed when he had pierced the Waters, whereat the Law-observers paid him homage, There, men assever, was thy loftiest birthplace: O Fever, yield- ing to our prayer avoid us.\n\nIf thou be fiery glow, or inflammation, or if thy birthplace call for chips of fuel, Rack is thy name, God of the sickly yellow! O Fever, yielding to our prayer avoid us.\n\nBe thou distress, or agonizing torment, be thou the son King Varuna hath begotten, Rack isthy name, God of the sickly yellow! O Fever, yielding to our prayer avoid us.\n\nI offer homage to the chilly Fever, to his fierce burning glow I offer homage. Be adoration paid to Fever coming each other day, the third, of two days running."
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 6558287229330,
+      "hymn": "Hymn 26",
+      "title": "A charm to obtain invisibility",
+      "file": "av01026.htm",
+      "created": 1745090290809,
+      "hash": "md5-knHCWPBCHlF9kqrJ+/I4RQ==",
+      "content": "Let that Destructive Weapon be far distant from us, O ye Gods; far be the Stone ye wont to hurl.\n\nOur friend be that Celestial Grace, Indra and Bhaga be our friends, and Savitar with splendid Wealth.\n\nThou, Offspring of the waterflood, ye Maruts, with your sun- bright skins, give us protection reaching far.\n\nFurther us rightly, favour ye our bodies with your gracious love. Give thou our children happiness."
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 1798732806958,
+      "hymn": "Hymn 27",
+      "title": "A prayer for protection, guidance, and prosperity",
+      "file": "av01027.htm",
+      "created": 1745090290809,
+      "hash": "md5-q10UKmy5ResutsiCw9AaSw==",
+      "content": "There on the bank those Vipers lie, thrice-seven, having cast their skins: Now we with their discarded sloughs bind close and cover up the eyes of the malicious highway thief.\n\nFar let her go, cutting her way, brandishing, as it were, a club: Diverted be the new-born's mind: ne'er are the wicked prosperous.\n\nNot many have had power enough; the feeble ones have not prevailed, Like scattered fragments of a reed: ne'er are the wicked pros- perous.\n\nGo forward, feet, press quickly on, bring to the house of him who pays. Unconquered and unplundered, let Indrānf, foremost, lead the way."
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 3178353129601,
+      "hymn": "Hymn 28",
+      "title": "A prayer to Agni for the destruction of evil spirits",
+      "file": "av01028.htm",
+      "created": 1745090290810,
+      "hash": "md5-XLNK4/2vs6hIttqMs/V0Mw==",
+      "content": "God Agni hath come forth to us, fiend-slayer, chaser of disease, Burning the Yātudhānas up, Kimidins, and deceitful ones.\n\nConsume the Yātudhānas, God! meet the Kimidins with thy flame: Burn up the Yātudhānis as they face thee, thou whose path is black!\n\nShe who hath cursed us with a curse, or hath conceived a murderous sin; Or seized our son to take his blood, let her devour the child she bare.\n\nLet her, the Yātudhāni eat son, sister, and her daughter's. child. Now let the twain by turns destroy the wild-haired Yātudhānis- and crush down Arāyis to the earth!"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 3577039554795,
+      "hymn": "Hymn 29",
+      "title": "A charm to secure the supremacy of a dethroned King",
+      "file": "av01029.htm",
+      "created": 1745090290810,
+      "hash": "md5-sJuONE/EkCs49E8AU1nrnQ==",
+      "content": "With that victorious Amulet which strengthened Indra's power- and might Do thou, O Brāhmanaspati, increase our strength for kingly sway.\n\nSubduing those who rival us, subduing all malignities, Withstand the man who menaces, and him who seeks to injure- us.\n\nSoma and Savitar the God have strengthened and exalted thee: All elements have aided thee, to make thee general conqueror.\n\nSlayer of rivals, vanquisher, may that victorious Amulet Be bound on me for regal sway and conquest of mine enemies.\n\nYon Sun hath mounted up on high, and this my word hath mounted up That I may smite my foes and be slayer of rivals, rivalless.\n\nDestroyer of my rivals, strong, victorious, with royal sway, May I be ruler of these men, and King and sovran of the folk."
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 4328887572386,
+      "hymn": "Hymn 30",
+      "title": "A benediction on a King at his consecration",
+      "file": "av01030.htm",
+      "created": 1745090290810,
+      "hash": "md5-rZDbE0Mgfv5S1/98m1l2Zg==",
+      "content": "Guard and protect this man, all Gods and Vasus. Over him keep- ye watch and ward, Ādityas. Let not death reach him from the hands of brothers from hands of aliens, or of human beings.\n\nListen, one-minded, to the word I, utter, the sons, O Gods, among you, and the fathers! I trust this man to all of you: preserve him happily, and to length of days conduct him.\n\nAll Gods who dwell on earth or in the heavens, in air, within. the plants, the beasts, the waters, Grant this man life to full old age, and let him escape the hundred other ways of dying.\n\nYou, claiming Anuyājas or Prayājas, sharers, or not consumers, of oblation, You, to whom heaven's five regions are apportioned, I make companions at his sacred sessions."
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 6471240296585,
+      "hymn": "Hymn 31",
+      "title": "A prayer for protection and general prosperity",
+      "file": "av01031.htm",
+      "created": 1745090290811,
+      "hash": "md5-BJb3erpPbuSAw1BVJWC5/A==",
+      "content": "Here will we serve with sacrifice the great Controllers of the world, The four immortal Warders who protect the regions of the sky.\n\nYe, Guardians of the regions, Gods who keep the quarters of the heavens, Rescue and free us from the bonds of Nirriti, from grief and woe!\n\nI, free from stiffness, serve thee with oblation, not lame I sacri- fice with oil and fatness. Let the strong Warder God, who keeps the regions bring to us hither safety and well-being.\n\nWell be it with our mother and our father, well be it with our cows, and beasts, and people. Ours be all happy fortune, grace, and favour. Long, very long may we behold the sunlight."
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 3603102370022,
+      "hymn": "Hymn 32",
+      "title": "In praise of Heaven and Earth",
+      "file": "av01032.htm",
+      "created": 1745090290811,
+      "hash": "md5-SaA0J2ztcC1BRwjaSx2WSw==",
+      "content": "Ye people, hear and mark this well: he will pronounce a mighty prayer: That which gives breathing to the Plants is not on earth nor in, the heaven.\n\nTheir station, as of those who rest when weary, is in midmost air: The base whereon this world is built, the sages know or know it not.\n\nWhat the two trembling hemispheres and ground produced and fashioned forth. This All, is ever fresh to-day, even as the currents of the sea.\n\nThis All hath compassed round the one, and on the other lies at rest. To Earth and all-possessing Heaven mine adoration have I paid."
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 4575595237869,
+      "hymn": "Hymn 33",
+      "title": "To the Waters, for health and happiness",
+      "file": "av01033.htm",
+      "created": 1745090290811,
+      "hash": "md5-zAWaL6V/dXoaP3KwEZMT1Q==",
+      "content": "May they, the golden-hued, the bright, the splendid, they wherein Savitar was born and Agni, They who took Agni as a germ, fair-coloured, the Waters, bring felicity and bless us!\n\nThey in the midst whereof King Varuna moveth, viewing men's righteous and unrighteous dealing. They who took Agni as a germ, fair-coloured,—those Waters bring felicity and bless us!\n\nWhom the Gods make their beverage in heaven, they who wax manifold in air's mid-region, They who took Agni as a germ, fair-coloured,—those Waters bring felicity and bless us!\n\nYe Waters, with auspicious eye behold me: touch ye my skin with your auspicious body. May they, the bright and pure, distilling fatness, those Waters, bring felicity and bless us."
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 5352893198888,
+      "hymn": "Hymn 34",
+      "title": "A young man's love-charm",
+      "file": "av01034.htm",
+      "created": 1745090290812,
+      "hash": "md5-uAbHw4Uqu4r7fmn3d/6fww==",
+      "content": "1. From honey sprang this Plant to life; with honey now we dig thee up. Make us as sweet as honey, for from honey hast thou been pro- duced.\n\nMy tongue hath honey at the tip, and sweetest honey at the root: Thou yieldest to my wish and will, and shalt be mine and only mine.\n\nMy coming in is honey-sweet and honey-sweet, my going forth: My voice and words are sweet: I fain would be like honey in my look.\n\nSweeter am I than honey, yet more full of sweets than licorice: So mayst thou love me as a branch full of all sweets, and only me.\n\nAround thee have I girt a zone of sugar-cane to banish hate. That thou mayst be in love with me, my darling never to depart."
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 5810403408987,
+      "hymn": "Hymn 35",
+      "title": "A charm to ensure long life and glory to the wearer of an amulet",
+      "file": "av01035.htm",
+      "created": 1745090290812,
+      "hash": "md5-wKb0TW5b2WpctvNp8WsZ5Q==",
+      "content": "This Ornament of Gold which Daksha's children bound, with benevolent thoughts, on Satānïka, This do I bind on thee for life, for glory, for long life lasting through a hundred autumns.\n\nThis man no fiends may conquer, no Pisāchas, for this is might of Gods, their primal offspring. Whoever wears the Gold of Daksha's children hath a long lengthened life among the living.\n\nThe light, the power, the lustre of the Waters, the strength of Trees, and all their forceful vigour, We lay on him as powers abide in Indra: so let him wear this Gold and show his valour.\n\nWith monthly and six-monthly times and seasons, with the full year's sweet essence do we fill thee, May Indra, Agni, and all Gods together, showing no anger, grant thee what thou wishest."
+    }
+  ],
+  "hash": "md5-+x00jU71xgmoo64RXHp5kQ=="
+}