{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av03015.htm","path":"hin/av/av03015.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av03015.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1I stir and animate the merchant Indra; may he approach and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0be our guide and leader. p. a83\n \u00a0\u00a0Chasing ill-will, wild beast, and highway robber, may he who\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0hath the power give me riches.\n 2The many paths which Gods are wont to travel, the paths which\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0go between the earth and heaven,\n \u00a0\u00a0May they rejoice with me in milk and fatness that I may make\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0rich profit by my purchase.\n 3With fuel. Agni! and with butter, longing, mine offering I\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0present for strength and conquest;\n \u00a0\u00a0With prayer, so far as I have strength, adoring\u2014this holy hymn\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0to gain a hundred treasures.\n 4Pardon this stubbornness of ours. O Agni, the distant pathway\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0which our feet have trodden.\n \u00a0\u00a0Propitious unto us be sale and barter, may interchange of mer-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0chandise enrich me.\n \u00a0\u00a0Accept, ye twain, accordant, this libation! Prosperous be our\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ventures and incomings.\n 5The wealth wherewith I carry on my traffic, seeking, ye Gods!\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0wealth with the wealth I offer,\n \u00a0\u00a0May this grow more for me, not less: O Agni, through sacrifice\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0chase those who hinder profit!\n 6The wealth wherewith I carry on my traffic, seeking, ye Gods!\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0wealth with the wealth I offer,\n \u00a0\u00a0Herein may Indra, Savitar, and Soma, Praj\u0101pati, and Agni give\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0me splendour.\n 7With reverence we sign thy praise, O Hotar-priest Vaisv\u0101nara.\n \u00a0\u00a0Over our children keep thou watch, over our bodies, kine, and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0lives.\n 8Still to thee ever will we bring oblation, as to a stabled horse, O\n \u00a0\u00a0J\u0101tavedas.\n \u00a0\u00a0Joying in food and in the growth of riches may we thy servants,\n \u00a0\u00a0Agni, never suffer.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 3: Hymn 15: A merchant's prayer for success in his business","type":"page"}