AV 4.12

Atharva Veda · translated by Maurice Bloomfield

1. This, verily, is a remedy, this is the remedy of Rudra, with which one may charm away the arrow that has one shaft and a hundred points! 2. With gâlâsha (urine) do ye wash (the tumour), with gâlâsha do ye sprinkle it! The gâlâsha is a potent remedy: do thou (Rudra) with it show mercy to us, that we may live! 3. Both well-being and comfort shall be ours, and nothing whatever shall injure us! To the ground the disease (shall fall): may every remedy be ours, may all remedies be ours!

AV 4.12 · Atharva Veda · 4

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Comfort Healing Mercy Truth Charity

Comfort in other traditions

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Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.

Isaiah 40:1 · Bible · Isaiah

When Allah's succour and the triumph cometh

Quran 110:1 · Quran · The Help

The heavy tidings grieved the godlike man: Swift to his succour through the ranks he ran. The dauntless king yet standing firm he found, And all the chiefs in deep concern around. Where to the steely point the reed was join’d, The shaft he drew, but left the head behind. Straight the broad belt with gay embroidery graced, He loosed; the corslet from his breast unbraced; Then suck’d the blood, and sovereign balm infused,[133] Which Chiron gave, and Æsculapius used.

Iliad 4.19 · Iliad · 4

Then it vanished through the thong-hole of the door and was dissipated into thin air; but Penelope rose from her sleep refreshed and comforted, so vivid had been her dream.

Odyssey 4.81 · Odyssey · 4

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