{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av03012.htm","path":"hin/av/av03012.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av03012.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Here, even here I fix my firm-set dwelling; flowing with fatness\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0may it stand in safety.\n \u00a0\u00a0May we approach thee, House! with all our people, uncharmed\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and goodly men, and dwell within thee,\n 2Even here, O House, stand thou on firm foundation, wealthy in\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0horses, rich in kine and gladness.\n \u00a0\u00a0Wealthy in nourishment. in milk and fatness, rise up for great\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0felicity and fortune.\n 3A spacious store, O House, art thou, full of clean corn and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0lofty-roofed.\n \u00a0\u00a0Let the young calf and little boy approach thee, and milch-kine\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0streaming homeward in the evening.\n 4This House may Savitar and V\u0101yu stablish, Brihaspati who\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0knows the way, and Indra.\n \u00a0\u00a0May the moist Maruts sprinkle it with fatness, and may King\n \u00a0\u00a0Bhaga make our corn-land fruitful.\n 5Queen of the home! thou, sheltering, kindly Goddess, wast sta-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0blished by the Gods in the beginning.\n \u00a0\u00a0Clad in thy robe of grass be friendly-minded, and give us wealth\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0with goodly men about us.\n 6Thou Pole, in ordered fashion mount the pillar. Strong, shining\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0forth afar, keep off our foemen.\n \u00a0\u00a0House! let not those who dwell within thee suffer. Live we with\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0all our men, a hundred autumns.\n 7To this the tender boy hath come, to this the calf with all the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0beasts,\n \u00a0\u00a0To this crock of foaming drink, hither with jars of curdled\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0milk.\n 8Bring hitherward, O dame, the well-filled pitcher, the stream\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0of molten butter blent with nectar.\n \u00a0\u00a0Bedew these drinkers with a draught of Amrit.\n \u00a0\u00a0May all our hopes' fulfilment guard this dwelling.\n 9Water that kills Consumption, free from all Consumption, here\n \u00a0\u00a0I bring.\n \u00a0\u00a0With Agni, the immortal one, I enter and possess the house.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 3: Hymn 12: A benediction on a newly built house","type":"page"}