{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av02012.htm","path":"hin/av/av02012.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av02012.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1The spacious Firmament, and Earth and Heaven, the Field's\n \u00a0\u00a0Queen, and the wonderful Wide-Strider,\n \u00a0\u00a0Yea, the broad middle air which V\u0101ta guardeth, may these now\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0burn with heat while I am burning.\n 2Listen to this, ye Gods who merit worship. Hymns here are sung\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0for me by Bharadv\u0101ja.\n \u00a0\u00a0Bound in the noose may he be doomed to trouble whoever mars\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0this that our mind hath purposed.\n 3Hear this my call, O Indra, Soma-drinker, as with a burning\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0heart I oft invoke thee.\n \u00a0\u00a0I smite, as 'twere a tree felled with a hatchet, the man who\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0marreth this my plan and purpose.\n 4Together with thrice-eighty S\u0101ma-singers, Angirases, and Vasus,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and \u0100dityas,\n \u00a0\u00a0May the felicity of the Fathers guard us. I seize that man with\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0fire that Gods have kindled. p. a45\n 5O Heaven and Earth, regard me with your favour, and, all ye\n \u00a0\u00a0Gods, stand on my side and help me.\n \u00a0\u00a0Angirases, Fathers worthy of the Soma! woe fall on him who,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0caused the hateful outrage!\n 6Whoever either scorns us, O ye Maruts, or blames devotion\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0which we now are paying.\n \u00a0\u00a0Let his own wicked deeds be fires to burn him. May Heaven\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0consume the man who hates devotion.\n 7Thy sevenfold vital breath, thine eight marrows I rend away\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0with prayer.\n \u00a0\u00a0With Agni as thine envoy, go, prepared, to Yama's dwelling\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0place.\n 8In J\u0101tavedas kindled flame I set the place assigned to thee.\n \u00a0\u00a0Let fire consume thy body, and thy voice go to the general\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0breath.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 2: Hymn 12: A prayer for vengeance on a malicious rival worshipper","type":"page"}