{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av03029.htm","path":"hin/av/av03029.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av03029.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1When yonder kings who sit beside Yama divide among them-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0selves the sixteenth part of hopes fulfilled,\n \u00a0\u00a0A ram bestowed as sacrifice, white-footed, frees us from the tax.\n 2He satisfies each hope and want, prevailing, present and pre-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0pared.\n \u00a0\u00a0The wish-fulfilling ram, bestowed, white-footed is exhaustless\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0still.\n 3He who bestows a white-hooved ram, adequate to the place he\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0holds.\n \u00a0\u00a0Ascends to the celestial height, the heaven where tribute is not\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0paid to one more mighty by the weak.\n 4He who bestows a white-hooved ram, adequate to the place he\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0holds.\n \u00a0\u00a0Offered with five cakes, lives on that, unwasting, in the Fathers'\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0world.\n 5He who bestows a white-hooved ram, adequate to the place he\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0holds,\n \u00a0\u00a0Offered with five cakes, lives on that, wasteless, while Sun and.\n \u00a0\u00a0Moon endure.\n 6Like a refreshing draught, like sea, the mighty flood, he faileth\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0not.\n \u00a0\u00a0Like the two Gods whose home is one, the ram white-footed,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0faileth not.\n 7Whose gift was this, and given to whom? K\u0101ma to K\u0101ma gave\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the gift.\n \u00a0\u00a0K\u0101ma is giver, K\u0101ma is receiver. K\u0101ma has passed into the sea.\n \u00a0\u00a0Through K\u0101ma do I take thee to myself. O K\u0101ma, this is thine. p. a101\n 8May Earth receive thee as her own, and this great interspace of\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0air.\n \u00a0\u00a0Neither in breath and body nor in progeny may this acceptance\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0do me harm.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 3: Hymn 29: On the means to obtain immunity from taxation in the next world","type":"page"}