{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av01028.htm","path":"hin/av/av01028.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av01028.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1God Agni hath come forth to us, fiend-slayer, chaser of disease,\n \u00a0\u00a0Burning the Y\u0101tudh\u0101nas up, Kimidins, and deceitful ones.\n 2Consume the Y\u0101tudh\u0101nas, God! meet the Kimidins with thy\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0flame:\n \u00a0\u00a0Burn up the Y\u0101tudh\u0101nis as they face thee, thou whose path is\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0black!\n 3She who hath cursed us with a curse, or hath conceived a\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0murderous sin;\n \u00a0\u00a0Or seized our son to take his blood, let her devour the child\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0she bare.\n 4Let her, the Y\u0101tudh\u0101ni eat son, sister, and her daughter's.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0child.\n \u00a0\u00a0Now let the twain by turns destroy the wild-haired Y\u0101tudh\u0101nis-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and crush down Ar\u0101yis to the earth!","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 1: Hymn 28: A prayer to Agni for the destruction of evil spirits","type":"page"}