sorcery
“kṛtyā”
idea · 1 work · 5 mentions · 11 anchored passages
kṛtyā · curse · kṛtyā-sorcery · maker of sorcery · the sorcery
spoken of as
2 expressionskṛtyā“sorcery”2 mentions
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit)
The kṛtyā-sorceries that are blue-tinged, the kṛtyā-sorceries that are noose-bearing, the kṛtyā-sorceries that those women made and that are blood-red — all of these we drive away from here.
Sorcery and Curses“kṛtyā”1 mention
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit)
having turned the sorceries back in the reverse direction, slay that one who wrought the sorcery.
in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Ritually fashioned hostile magic (kṛtyā), the central malevolent force that multiple hymns in this window seek to reverse, neutralize, or expel.
We drive away the disease-carrier, we drive away the sorcery, we drive away the Rakṣas with the ever-flowing stream;
That Kuṣṭha, the universal remedy, stands together with Soma, destroying all fever and all sorcery-born afflictions.
Let the god Kuṣṭha, the protector, come hither from beyond the Himavat, destroying all fever and all sorcery-born afflictions.