{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av04019.htm","path":"hin/av/av04019.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av04019.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Thou breakest ties of kith and kin, thou causest, too, relation-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ship:\n \u00a0\u00a0So bruise the sorcerer's offspring, like a reed that groweth in the\n \u00a0\u00a0Rains.\n 2Thou hast been blessed with blessing by the Br\u0101hman, Kanva\n \u00a0\u00a0N\u0101rshada.\n \u00a0\u00a0Thou fliest like a flashing dart: there is no fear or danger, Plant!\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0within the limit of thy range.\n 3Illumining, as 'twere, with light, thou movest at the head of\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0plants.\n \u00a0\u00a0The saviour of the simple man art thou, and slayer of the fiends.\n 4As once when time began the Gods with thee expelled the\n \u00a0\u00a0Asuras,\n \u00a0\u00a0Even thence, O Plant, wast thou produced as one who wipes and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0sweeps away.\n 5Thy father's name was Cleaver. Thou with thousand branches\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0cleavest all.\n \u00a0\u00a0Do thou, turned backward, cleave and rend the man who treateth\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0us as foes.\n 6The evil sprang from earth; it mounts to heaven and spreads to\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0vast extent.\n \u00a0\u00a0Reverted, shaking him with might, thence on its maker let it\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0fall.\n 7For thou hast grown reverted, and turned backward also is thy\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0fruit.\n \u00a0\u00a0Remove all curses far from me, keep most remote the stroke of\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0death. p. a128\n 8Preserve me with a hundred, yea, protect me with a thousand\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0aids.\n \u00a0\u00a0May mighty Indra, Lord of Plants! give store of strength and.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0power to thee.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 4: Hymn 19: A counter-charm and charm to secure general protection.","type":"page"}