Añjana
“collyrium”
object · 1 work · 3 mentions · 9 anchored passages
Paridhi · Traikakuda · Yamunā · collyrium · ointment · the mountain-born collyrium · Āñjana
spoken of as
1 expressionOintment“añjana”1 mention
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit)
Whatever brilliance belongs to heaven and earth, and whatever brilliance resides in you, O ointment — by that brilliance, sharp-sighted and radiant, may I become, O ointment.
in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Ritual eye-collyrium (añjana) treated as a personified healing substance: it expels jaundice, fever, sorcery, ill-omen, and demons, and is bound on as a protective amulet.
May the four-hero-granting collyrium guard us from the four Nirṛtis, from the bonds of seizure.
This mountain-born collyrium, grown mighty with the vigour and vitality of the waters, born from Agni upon Jātavedas — four-hero-bestowing — let it make all the directions and the sub-directions auspicious for you.
O collyrium, O evil-hearted one of the eye-spell, shatter even the ribs.