{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av04010.htm","path":"hin/av/av04010.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av04010.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Child of the wind firmament, sprung from the lightning and the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0light,\n \u00a0\u00a0May this the gold-born Shell that bears the pearl preserve us\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0from distress.\n 2Shell that wast born from out the sea, set at the head of\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0things that shine!\n \u00a0\u00a0With thee we slay the R\u0101kshasas and overcome voracious fiends.\n 3We stay disease and indigence, and chase Sad\u0101nv\u0101s with the\n \u00a0\u00a0Shell.\n \u00a0\u00a0May the all-healing Shell that bears the pearl preserve us from\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0distress.\n 4Born in the heaven, sprung from the sea, brought to us hither\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0from the flood.\n \u00a0\u00a0This gold-born Shell shall be to us an amulet to lengthen life.\n 5From ocean sprang the Amulet, from Vritra sprang the Lord of\n \u00a0\u00a0Day:\n \u00a0\u00a0May this protect us round about from shaft of God and Asura.\n 6Peerless 'mid golden ornaments art thou: from Soma wast thou\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0born.\n \u00a0\u00a0Thou gleamest on the quiver, thou art beautiful upon the car:\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0may it prolong our days of life!\n 7Bone of the Good became the pearl's shell-mother endowed with\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0soul it moveth in the waters.\n \u00a0\u00a0I bind this on thee for life, strength, and vigour, for long life\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0lasting through a hundred autumns.\n \u00a0\u00a0May the pearl's mother keep and guard thee safely!","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 4: Hymn 10: A charm accompanying inves...","type":"page"}