{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av01008.htm","path":"hin/av/av01008.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av01008.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1This sacrifice shall bring the Y\u0101tudh\u0101nas as the flood brings\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0foam: p. a9\n \u00a0\u00a0Here let the doer of this deed woman or man, acknowledge it.\n 2This one hath come confessing all: do ye receive him\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0eagerly.\n \u00a0\u00a0Master him thou, Brihaspati; Agni and Soma, pierce him\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0through.\n 3O Soma-drinker, strike and bring the Y\u0101tudh\u0101na's progeny:\n \u00a0\u00a0Make the confessing sinner's eyes fall from his head, both right\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and left.\n 4As thou, O Agni J\u0101tavedas, knowest the races of these secret\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0greedy beings,\n \u00a0\u00a0So strengthened by the power of prayer, O Agni, crushing them\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0down a hundred times destroy them.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 1: Hymn 8: To Indra, Brihaspati, Soma and Agni, for the destruction of sorcerers","type":"page"}