{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av02029.htm","path":"hin/av/av02029.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av02029.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Gods, give him all that earth hath best with bodily strength and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0happy fate.\n \u00a0\u00a0Agni and S\u016brya grant him life, Brihaspati give him eminence!\n 2Bestow thou life on him, O J\u0101tavedas. Store him with future\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0progeny, O Tvashtar.\n \u00a0\u00a0Send him, O Savitar, full growth of riches. Let this thy servant\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0live a hundred autumns.\n 3May this our prayer bring strength and goodly offspring. Give,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0both of you one-minded, strength and riches. p. a56\n \u00a0\u00a0Let him with might win fields and victory, Indra! setting beneath\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0his feet the rest, his rivals.\n 4As Indra's gift, by Varuna instructed the fierce one came to us\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0sent by the Maruts.\n \u00a0\u00a0Let him, O Heaven and Earth, rest in your bosom. Let him not\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0hunger, let him not be thirsty.\n 5Ye twain endowed with vigour, grant him vigour. Ye who are\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0rich in milk, give milk to feed him.\n \u00a0\u00a0These twain have given him vigour, Earth and Heaven, and all\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the Gods, the Maruts, and the Waters.\n 6With health-bestowing drops thine heart I comfort: all-bright\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0again, and undiseased, enjoy them.\n \u00a0\u00a0Drest in like robes let these two drink the mixture, wearing\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the Asvins' form as an illusion.\n 7Erst Indra, wounded, made this strengthening portion, eternal\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0food: thine is it, here presented.\n \u00a0\u00a0With this live full of vigour through the autumns. Let not thy\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0strength be drained. Leeches have helped thee.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 2: Hymn 29: A benediction on a sick man","type":"page"}