{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av02028.htm","path":"hin/av/av02028.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av02028.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1This Child, Old Age! shall grow to meet thee only: none of\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the hundred other deaths shall harm him. p. a55\n \u00a0\u00a0From trouble caused by friends let Mitra guard him, as a kind\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0mother guards the son she nurses.\n 2Mitra or Varuna the foe-destroyer, accordant, grant him death\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0in course of nature!\n \u00a0\u00a0Thus Agni, Hotar-priest, skilled in high statutes, declareth all\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the deities' generations.\n 3Thou art the Lord of all terrestrial cattle, of cattle born and to\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0be born hereafter.\n \u00a0\u00a0Let not breath drawn or breath emitted fail him. Let not his\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0friends, let not his foemen slay him.\n 4Let Heaven thy father and let Earth thy mother, accordant, give\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thee death in course of nature,\n \u00a0\u00a0That thou mayst live on Aditi's bosom, guarded, a hundred\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0winters, through thy respirations.\n 5Lead him to life, O Agni, and to splendour, this dear child,\n \u00a0\u00a0Varuna! and thou King Mitra!\n \u00a0\u00a0Give him protection, Aditi! as a mother; All Gods, that his be\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0life of long duration;","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 2: Hymn 28: A prayer for a boy's long and happy life","type":"page"}