{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av01019.htm","path":"hin/av/av01019.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av01019.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Let not the piercers find us, nor let those who wound discover\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0us.\n \u00a0\u00a0O Indra, make the arrows fall, turned, far from us, to every\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0side.\n 2Turned from us let the arrows fall, those shot and those that will\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0be shot.\n \u00a0\u00a0Shafts of the Gods and shafts of men, strike and transfix mine\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0enemies:\n 3Whoever treateth us as foes, be he our own or strange to us, a\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0kinsman or a foreigner,\n \u00a0\u00a0May Rudra with his arrows pierce and slay these enemies of\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0mine. p. a19\n 4The rival and non-rival, he who in his hatred curses us\n \u00a0\u00a0May all the deities injure him! My nearest, closest mail is\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0prayer.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 1: Hymn 19: A prayer for protection from arrows and for the punishment of enemies","type":"page"}