{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av01007.htm","path":"hin/av/av01007.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av01007.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Bring the Kimidin hither, bring the Y\u0101tudh\u0101na self-declared\n \u00a0\u00a0For Agni, God, thou, lauded, hast become the Dasyu's\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0slaughterer.\n 2O J\u0101tavedas, Lord Supreme, controller of our bodies, taste\n \u00a0\u00a0The butter, Agni, taste the oil: make thou the Y\u0101tudh\u0101nas\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0mourn.\n 3Let Y\u0101tudh\u0101nas mourn, let all greedy Kimidins weep and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0wail:\n \u00a0\u00a0And, Agni, Indra, may ye both accept this sacrifice of ours. p. a8\n 4May Agni seize upon them first, may strong-armed Indra drive\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0them forth:\n \u00a0\u00a0Let every wicked sorcerer come hither and say, Here am I.\n 5Let us behold thy strength, O J\u0101tavedas. Viewer of men, tell us\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the Y\u0101tudh\u0101nas.\n \u00a0\u00a0Burnt by thy heat and making declaration let all approach this\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0sacrifice before thee.\n 6O J\u0101tavedas, seize, on them: for our advantage art thou born:\n \u00a0\u00a0Agni, be thou our messenger and make the Y\u0101tudh\u0101nas wail.\n 7O Agni, bring thou hitherward the Y\u0101tudh\u0101nas bound and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0chained.\n \u00a0\u00a0And afterward let Indra tear their heads off with his thunder-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0bolt.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 1: Hymn 7: To Indra and Agni, for the ...","type":"page"}