{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av01030.htm","path":"hin/av/av01030.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av01030.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Guard and protect this man, all Gods and Vasus. Over him keep-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ye watch and ward, \u0100dityas.\n \u00a0\u00a0Let not death reach him from the hands of brothers from hands\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0of aliens, or of human beings.\n 2Listen, one-minded, to the word I, utter, the sons, O Gods,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0among you, and the fathers!\n \u00a0\u00a0I trust this man to all of you: preserve him happily, and to\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0length of days conduct him.\n 3All Gods who dwell on earth or in the heavens, in air, within.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the plants, the beasts, the waters,\n \u00a0\u00a0Grant this man life to full old age, and let him escape the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0hundred other ways of dying. p. a28\n 4You, claiming Anuy\u0101jas or Pray\u0101jas, sharers, or not consumers,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0of oblation,\n \u00a0\u00a0You, to whom heaven's five regions are apportioned, I make\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0companions at his sacred sessions.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 1: Hymn 30: A benediction on a King at...","type":"page"}