{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av03011.htm","path":"hin/av/av03011.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av03011.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1For life I set thee free by this oblation both from unmarked'.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0decline and from consumption:\n \u00a0\u00a0Or if the grasping demon have possessed him, free him from her,.\n \u00a0\u00a0O Indra, thou and Agni!\n 2Be his days ended, be he now departed, be he brought very\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0near to death already,\n \u00a0\u00a0Out of Destruction's lap again I bring him, save him for life to\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0last a hundred autumns. p. a78\n 3With sacrifice thousand-eyed and hundred-powered, bringing a\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0hundred lives, have I restored him,\n \u00a0\u00a0That Indra through the autumns may conduct him safe to the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0farther shore of all misfortune.\n 4Live, waxing in thy strength a hundred autumns, live through\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0a hundred springs, a hundred winters!\n \u00a0\u00a0Indra, Agni, Savitar, Brihaspati give thee a hundred! With\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0hundred-lived oblation have I saved him,\n 5Breath, Respiration, come to him, as two car-oxen to their\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0stall!\n \u00a0\u00a0Let all the other deaths, whereof men count a hundred, pass\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0away.\n 6Breath, Respiration, stay ye here. Go ye not hence away from\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0him,\n \u00a0\u00a0Bring, so that he may reach old age, body and members back\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0again.\n 7I give thee over to old age, make thee the subject of old age.\n \u00a0\u00a0Let kindly old age lead thee on. Let all the other deaths, whereof\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0men count a hundred, pass away!\n 8Old age hath girt thee with its bonds even as they bind a bull\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0with rope.\n \u00a0\u00a0The death held thee at thy birth bound with a firmly-knotted\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0noose,\n \u00a0\u00a0Therefrom, with both the hands of Truth, Brihaspati hath loose-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ned thee.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 3: Hymn 11: A charm for the recovery of a dangerously sick man","type":"page"}