Śāpa
idea · 2 works · 7 mentions · 16 anchored passages
curse · śāpa · curses · the curse of the sowers · the curse of the young cows
spoken of as
1 expressionCurse“śāpa”6 mentions
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa (Sanskrit) · Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit)
Then the daughter of the mountain, Rāma, with eyes reddened in anger, wrathfully cursed all the thirty gods:
in the texts
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
A curse pronounced by a wrathful sage or deity that transforms its target's body or nature, sometimes later resolved.
"Agastya, in extreme fury, pronounced a curse on Mārīca saying 'Become a rākṣasa!
"She — this very Tāṭakā — enraged by the curse, senseless with fury, lays waste this region, once made auspicious by Agastya's dwelling in it.
The very instant their hands were touched, all the hundred maidens became free of their hunchbacks, free of affliction, and endowed with supreme beauty.
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Uttered curses from strangers, rivals, or in-laws, which the Yava-plant hymn seeks to deflect and turn back upon the curser.
Neither to be brought low by curses nor to be pierced through — I release for you the great armor that is Yava.
Straight-haired, tawny Yava, munificent one worthy of our joy — golden-bowed, let him approach and deal with the curses.
Whatever curses are heaped together, taking effect through speech that is unworthy of its season — you, bearing barley in your two arms, ward those off beforehand.