{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av03021.htm","path":"hin/av/av03021.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av03021.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1All Fires that are in water and in Vritra, all those that man and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0stones contain within them,\n \u00a0\u00a0That which hath entered herbs and trees and bushes\u2014to all\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0these Fires be this oblation offered.\n 2That which abides in Soma and in cattle, that which lies deep in\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0birds and sylvan creatures,\n \u00a0\u00a0That which hath entered quadrupeds and bipeds\u2014to all these\n \u00a0\u00a0Fires be this oblation offered.\n 3The Fire that rideth by the side of Indra, the God Vaisv\u0101nara,.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0yea all-consuming,\n \u00a0\u00a0Whom, as the victor, I invoke in battles\u2014to all these Fires be\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0this oblation offered.\n 4The all-devouring God whom men call K\u0101ma, he whom they\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0call the Giver and Receiver,\n \u00a0\u00a0Invincible, pervading, wise, and mighty\u2014to all these Fires be\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0this oblation offered.\n 5To thee, strength-giver, glorious, rich in pleasant strains, whom.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0in their minds the thirteen creatures of the world,\n \u00a0\u00a0And the five sons of man regard as Hotar-priest\u2014to all these-\n \u00a0\u00a0Fires be this oblation offered. p. a92\n 6To him who feeds on ox and cow, sage, bearing Soma on his\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0back,\n \u00a0\u00a0To all Vaisv\u0101nara's followers\u2014to these be this oblation paid.\n 7All fiery flames that follow after lightning, flashing o'er earth,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0through firmament and heaven,\n \u00a0\u00a0All that are in the wind and skyey regions\u2014to all these Fires be\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0this oblation offered.\n 8The golden-handed Savitar and Indra, Brihaspati, Varuna,\n \u00a0\u00a0Mitra, and Agni,\n \u00a0\u00a0The Angirases we call, the Visve Devas: let them appease this\n \u00a0\u00a0Agni, Flesh-devourer.\n 9Flesh-eating Agni is appeased, appeased is he who hurteth men.\n \u00a0\u00a0Now him who burneth every thing, the Flesh-consumer, have I\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0stilled.\n 10The mountains where the Soma grows, the waters lying calm and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0still,\n \u00a0\u00a0V\u0101ta, Parjanya, Agni's self have made the Flesh-consumer rest.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 3: Hymn 21: In honour of fire in all s...","type":"page"}