{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av04036.htm","path":"hin/av/av04036.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av04036.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Endowed with true strength, let the Bull, Agni Vaisv\u0101nara, burn\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0them up.\n \u00a0\u00a0Him who would pain and injure us, him who would treat us as\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0a foe. p. a146\n 2Him who, unharmed, would injure us, and him who, harmed,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0would do us harm,\n \u00a0\u00a0I lay between the doubled fangs of Agni, of Vaisv\u0101nara.\n 3Those who, what time the moon is dark, hunt with loud cry and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0answering shout,\n \u00a0\u00a0Flesh-eaters, others who would harm,\u2014all these I overcome with\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0might.\n 4I conquer the Pis\u0101chas with my power, and take their wealth\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0away.\n \u00a0\u00a0All who would injure us I slay. Let mine intention have success.\n 5With Gods who flee with him, and match their rapid motion\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0with the Sun,\n \u00a0\u00a0I with those animals who dwell in rivers and on hills am found.\n 6I trouble the Pis\u0101chas as the tiger plagues men rich in kine.\n \u00a0\u00a0They, even as dogs when they have seen a lion, find no hiding-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0place.\n 7Naught with Pis\u0101chas can I do, with thieves, with roamers of the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0wood.\n \u00a0\u00a0Pis\u0101chas flee and vanish from each village as I enter it.\n 8Into whatever village this mine awful power penetrates,\n \u00a0\u00a0Thence the Pis\u0101chas flee away, and plot no further mischief\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0there.\n 9Those who enrage me with their prate, as flies torment an\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0elephant,\n \u00a0\u00a0I deem unhappy creatures, like small insects troublesome to\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0man.\n 10Destruction seize upon the man, as with a cord they hold a\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0horse,\n \u00a0\u00a0The fool who is enraged with me! He is not rescued from the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0noose.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 4: Hymn 36: A charm against fiends, hu...","type":"page"}