{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av01020.htm","path":"hin/av/av01020.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av01020.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1May it glide harmless by in this our sacrifice, O Soma, God!\n \u00a0\u00a0Maruts, be gracious unto us.\n \u00a0\u00a0Let not disaster, let not malison find us out; let not abominable\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0guiles discover us.\n 2Mitra and Varuna, ye twain, turn carefully away from us\n \u00a0\u00a0The deadly dart that flies to-day, the missile of the wicked\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ones.\n 3Ward off from this side and from that, O Varuna, the deadly\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0dart:\n \u00a0\u00a0Give us thy great protection, turn the lethal weapon far away.\n 4A mighty Ruler thus art thou, unconquered, vanquisher of\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0foes,\n \u00a0\u00a0Even thou whose friend is never slain, whose friend is never over-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0come.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 1: Hymn 20: A prayer to Soma, the Maruts, Mitra, and Varuna, for protection","type":"page"}