{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av04002.htm","path":"hin/av/av04002.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av04002.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Three have gone hence and passed away, the man, the tiger,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and the wolf.\n \u00a0\u00a0Down, verily, the rivers flow, down-goeth the celestial Tree,.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0down let our foemen bend and bow.\n 2On distant pathway go the wolf, on pathway most remote the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thief!\n \u00a0\u00a0On a far road speed forth the rope with teeth, and the malicious\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0man!\n 3We crush and rend to pieces both thine eyes, O Tiger, and thy\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0jaws and all the twenty claws we break.\n 4We break and rend the tiger first of creatures that are armed.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0with teeth;\n \u00a0\u00a0The robber then, and then the snake, the sorcerer, and then the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0wolf.\n 5The thief who cometh near to-day departeth bruised and crush-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ed to bits.\n \u00a0\u00a0By nearest way let him be gone. Let Indra slay him with his\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0bolt.\n 6Let the beast's teeth be broken off, shivered and shattered be\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0his ribs! p. a108\n \u00a0\u00a0Slack be thy bowstring: downward go the wild beast that\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0pursues the hare!\n 7Open not what thou hast compressed, close not what thou hast\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0not compressed.\n \u00a0\u00a0Indra's and Soma's child, thou art Atharvan's tiger-crushing\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0charm.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 4: Hymn 3: A Charm against tigers, wol...","type":"page"}