{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av04009.htm","path":"hin/av/av04009.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av04009.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Approach! thou art the mountain's eye, the living thing that\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0saveth us;\n \u00a0\u00a0A gift bestowed by all the Gods, yea, the defence that guardeth\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0life.\n 2Thou art the safeguard of the men, thou art the safeguard of\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the kine,\n \u00a0\u00a0Thou standest ready to protect the horses that are fleet of foot.\n 3Thou, also, Salve! art a defence that rends and crushes\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0sorcerers.\n \u00a0\u00a0Thou knowest, too, of Amrit, thou art the delight of all who\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0live, a jaundice-curing balm art thou.\n 4Whomso thou creepest over, Salve! member by member, joint\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0by joint,\n \u00a0\u00a0From him, like some strong arbiter of strife, thou banishest\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0decline.\n 5No imprecation reaches him, no magic, no tormenting fiend,\n \u00a0\u00a0O Salve, Vishkandha seizes not the man who carries thee about.\n 6From lying speech, from evil dream, from wicked act and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0sinfulness, p. a114\n \u00a0\u00a0From hostile and malignant eye,\u2014from these, O Salve, protect\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0us well.\n 7I, knowing this, O Salve, will speak the very truth and not a\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0lie:\n \u00a0\u00a0May I obtain both horse and ox, may I obtain thy life, O man.\n 8Three are the slaves that serve the Salve, Fever, Consumption,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and the Snake.\n \u00a0\u00a0Thy father is the loftiest of mountains, named the Triple-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0peaked.\n 9Sprung from the Snowy Mountain's side, this Ointment of the\n \u00a0\u00a0Three-peaked hill.\n \u00a0\u00a0Crushes and rends all sorcerers and every witch and sorceress.\n 10If thou art from the Three-peaked hill or hast thy name from\n \u00a0\u00a0Yamun\u0101,\n \u00a0\u00a0These names are both auspicious: by these two protect thou us,\n \u00a0\u00a0O Salve!","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 4: Hymn 9: A charm addressed to a precious ointment for safety and wealth","type":"page"}