{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av01027.htm","path":"hin/av/av01027.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av01027.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1There on the bank those Vipers lie, thrice-seven, having cast\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0their skins:\n \u00a0\u00a0Now we with their discarded sloughs bind close and cover up the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0eyes of the malicious highway thief.\n 2Far let her go, cutting her way, brandishing, as it were, a club:\n \u00a0\u00a0Diverted be the new-born's mind: ne'er are the wicked\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0prosperous.\n 3Not many have had power enough; the feeble ones have not\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0prevailed,\n \u00a0\u00a0Like scattered fragments of a reed: ne'er are the wicked pros-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0perous.\n 4Go forward, feet, press quickly on, bring to the house of him\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0who pays.\n \u00a0\u00a0Unconquered and unplundered, let Indr\u0101nf, foremost, lead the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0way.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 1: Hymn 27: A prayer for protection, guidance, and prosperity","type":"page"}