{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av01025.htm","path":"hin/av/av01025.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av01025.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1When Agni blazed when he had pierced the Waters, whereat the\n \u00a0\u00a0Law-observers paid him homage,\n \u00a0\u00a0There, men assever, was thy loftiest birthplace: O Fever, yield-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ing to our prayer avoid us.\n 2If thou be fiery glow, or inflammation, or if thy birthplace call\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0for chips of fuel,\n \u00a0\u00a0Rack is thy name, God of the sickly yellow! O Fever, yielding\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0to our prayer avoid us.\n 3Be thou distress, or agonizing torment, be thou the son King\n \u00a0\u00a0Varuna hath begotten,\n \u00a0\u00a0Rack isthy name, God of the sickly yellow! O Fever, yielding to\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0our prayer avoid us.\n 4I offer homage to the chilly Fever, to his fierce burning glow I\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0offer homage. p. a24\n \u00a0\u00a0Be adoration paid to Fever coming each other day, the third, of\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0two days running.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 1: Hymn 25: A prayer to fever, as a charm against his attacks","type":"page"}