It deals with rivalries between women in relationship with the same man, rivalries between two men, attracting /seducing a man by a woman or a woman by a man and suggests incantations that can be used in such situations.ДЄtharva Veda Black magic and Western Black magic. One peculiar rite is the Viб№ЈДЃsahi Vrata, performed with the mantras of the XVII kДЃб№ѓбёЌa in a spell against female rivals.ДЄtharva Veda contains mantras for white magic (defensive magic) as well as black magic (offensive magic). There are also hymns that are specific to rituals of the bhб№›gu-aб№…girasas, vrДЃtyas and kб№Јatriyas. The major rituals covered by the Atharva Veda are marriage in kДЃб№ѓбёЌa вЂ“ XIV and the funeral in kДЃб№ѓбёЌa вЂ“ XVIII. This approach to disease is quite different compared to the trihumoral theory of Ayurveda.ДЄtharva Veda suggests germs as a cause for leprosy and also talks about Anti-Biotics.ДЄ variety of devices, such as an arrow with a duct for poison ( apДЃskambha) and castor bean poison, poisoned net and hook traps, use of disease-spreading insects and smoke screen.ДЄbhicarika Prayoga, Deployment of Black Magic. The Atharvans seek to kill them with a variety of incantations or plant-based drugs in order to counter the disease. It identifies the causes of disease as living causative agents such as the yatudhДЃna, the kimД«din, the krimi or kб№›mi and the durб№‡ДЃma. Е›aunakД«ya, regions north of the Narmada RiverДЄtharva Veda is the first Indic text dealing with medicine.paippalДЃda, regions south of the Narmada River.There are two surviving recensions ( Е›ДЃkhДЃs), known as ЕљaunakД«ya (AVS) and PaippalДЃda (AVP) In the Late Vedic Gopatha Brahmana, it is attributed to the Bhrigu and Angirasa.ДЄdditionally, tradition ascribes parts to other rishis, such as KauЕ›ika, Vasiб№Јб№ha and KaЕ›yapa. The Atharvaveda was mainly composed by two groups of rishis known as the Atharvanas and the Angirasa. The name Atharva Veda is a compound of Atharva, the Rishi who compiled it and Veda, meaning Knowledge. Practitioners of Atharva Veda are now limited and they are found mostly in Maharashtra and Kerala, Gujarat.ДЄs compared to the other three Vedas, the Atharva Veda speaks more of Daily problems and solutions, like diseases,black magic. It is three times bigger than Yajur Veda or Sama Veda.ДЇrom the preliminary analysis of the text, it is revealed that Atharva Veda was centered around the northern Sarasvati region and later became the text of the shamans in the Kuru kingdom which got established to the east of Sarasvati (in Haryana). Thus Atharva Veda is a little more than half the size of Rig Veda. There are 10552 verses in Rig Veda and around 5987 verses (varies slightly based on recessions) in Atharva Veda. It is not Athavana Veda as most people pronounce it.ДЄtharveda is not as large as the Rug Veda. Prayer to the kushtha-plant to destroy takman (fever).Of the Four Vedas, the Scriptures of the Hindus,the Ataharva Veda is less known as compared to Rig,Yajur and Sama Vedas. Since the order is not that of the original I have inserted a five digit number in wavy brackets in front of each hymn, where the first two digits are the book and the remaining three digits are the hymn number. [Scanned at [Editors Note: this, the 42nd volume of the the Sacred Books of the East, is an anthology of representative texts from the Arthrva-veda, the fourth Veda. Atharva-Veda Sacred-texts Hinduism Atharva-Veda IndexД®XTRACTS FROM THE RITUAL BOOKS AND THE COMMENTARIES

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