Atharvaveda

• The Artharvaveda Samhita is the text 'belonging to the Atharvan and Angirasa poets
• The Atharvaveda is sometimes called the "Veda of magical formulas", The Samhita layer of the text likely represents a developing 2nd millennium BCE tradition of magico-religious rites to address superstitious anxiety, spells to remove maladies believed to be caused by demons, and herbs- and nature-derived potions as medicine
• The text states Kenneth Zysk, is one of oldest surviving record of the evolutionary practices in religious medicine and reveals the "earliest forms of folk healing of Indo-European antiquity"

The Vedas are a large body of religious texts originating in ancient India. Composed in Vedic Sanskrit,...