{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av02034.htm","path":"hin/av/av02034.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av02034.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1May this, of all the beasts that Pasupati rules, Lord of animals,.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0quadruped and biped,\n \u00a0\u00a0Come, purchased, to the sacrificial portion. May growth of\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0wealth attend the sacrificer.\n 2Loosing the seed of future-time existence, give good success, O\n \u00a0\u00a0Gods, to him who worships.\n \u00a0\u00a0May what is present, duly brought, the victim, go to the deities'\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0beloved region.\n 3Those who are looking, deep in meditation, on the bound ani-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0mal with eye and spirit\n \u00a0\u00a0To them, the first, may Agni, God, give freedom, rejoicing in his\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0creatures, Visvakarman.\n 4Tame animals of every shape, though varied in colour, manifold.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0alike in nature\n \u00a0\u00a0To them, the first, may V\u0101yu, God, give freedom, Praj\u0101pati.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0rejoicing in his creatures.\n 5Let those who know receive before all others the vital breath\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0proceeding from the body.\n \u00a0\u00a0Go to the sky. Stay there with all thy members. By paths which\n \u00a0\u00a0Gods have travelled go to Svarga.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 2: Hymn 34: A prayer accompanying an animal sacrifice","type":"page"}