{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av04029.htm","path":"hin/av/av04029.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av04029.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1You twain, O Mitra, Varuna, I honour, Lawstrengtheners, wise,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0who drive away oppressors.\n \u00a0\u00a0Ye who protect the truthful in his battles, deliver us, ye twain,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0from grief and trouble. p. a138\n 2Ye the wise Gods who drive away oppressors, ye who protect\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the truthful in his battles,\n \u00a0\u00a0Who come, men's guards, to juice pressed forth by Babhru,.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0deliver us, ye twain, from grief and trouble.\n 3Mitra and Varuna who help Agasti, Atri, and Angiras, and\n \u00a0\u00a0Jamadagni,\n \u00a0\u00a0Ye who help Kasyapa, who help Vasishtha, deliver us, ye twain,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0from grief and trouble.\n 4Mitra and Varuna, who help Sy\u0101v\u0101sva, Atri, and Purumilha,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and Vadhryasva,\n \u00a0\u00a0Ye who help Vimada and Saptavadhri, deliver us, ye twain,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0from grief and trouble.\n 5Ye, Varuna, Mitra, who give aid to Kutsa, Gavishthira,\n \u00a0\u00a0Bharadv\u0101ja, Visv\u0101mitra,\n \u00a0\u00a0Who help Kakshivan and give aid to Kanva, deliver us, ye\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0twain, from grief and trouble.\n 6Ye, Mitra, Varuna, who help Trisoka, Medh\u0101tithi, and Usan\u0101\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0son of Kavi,\n \u00a0\u00a0Ye, Gotama's and Mudgala's protectors, deliver us, ye twain,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0from grief and trouble.\n 7Whose straight-reined car that keeps the track of goodness assails\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and ruins him who walks perversely\n \u00a0\u00a0I, suppliant, praise with constant invocation Mitra and Varuna.\n \u00a0\u00a0Save us from affliction.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 4: Hymn 29: A hymn to Mitra-Varuna","type":"page"}