{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av05006.htm","path":"hin/av/av05006.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av05006.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Eastward at first the prayer was generated: Vena disclosed bright\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0flashes from the summit, p. a161\n \u00a0\u00a0Disclosed his deepest nearest revelations, womb of the non-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0existent and existent.\n 2None have attained to those of old, those who wrought holy\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0acts for you,\n \u00a0\u00a0Let them not harm our heroes here. Therefore I set before you\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0this.\n 3Sweet-tongued, exhaustless, they have sent their voices down\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0together in heaven's vault that pours a thousand streams.\n \u00a0\u00a0His wildly-restless warders never close an eye: in every place\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the snarers stand to bind men fast.\n 4Speed forward, conquering all foes, to win the spoil,\n \u00a0\u00a0Thou comest on thy haters with a surging sea. Thy name is\n \u00a0\u00a0Fragile. The thirteenth month is Indra's home.\n 5Through this now hast thou sent thy gifts. All hail!\n \u00a0\u00a0With sharpened arms and missiles, kind and friendly, be gracious\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0unto us, Soma and Rudra!\n 6Through this hast thou been left in want. All hail!\n \u00a0\u00a0With sharpened arms and missiles, kind and friendly, be gracious\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0unto us, Soma and Rudra!\n 7Through this hast thou committed faults. All hail!\n \u00a0\u00a0With sharpened arms and missiles, kind and friendly, be gracious\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0unto us, Soma and Rudra!\n 8Free us from trouble, free us from dishonour, accept our wor-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ship, give us life immortal.\n 9O missile of the eye, missile of spirit, thou missile of devotion\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and of fervour!\n \u00a0\u00a0Thou art the weapon shot against the weapon. Let those be\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0weaponless who sin against us.\n 10Make with thy weapon weaponless, O Agni, all wicked men\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0who deal with us as foemen with eye, with thought, with\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0spirit, or intention.\n 11Thou art the house of Indra. I betake me to thee, I enter thee\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0with all my cattle,\n \u00a0\u00a0With all my people and with all my body, with all my soul, with\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0mine entire possessions.\n 12Thou art the guard of Indra. I betake me to thee, etc.\n 13Thou art the shield of Indra. I betake me to thee, etc.\n 14Indra's protection art thou. I betake me to thee, I enter thee\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0with all my cattle.\n \u00a0\u00a0With all my people and with all my body, with all my soul, with p. a162\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0mine entire possessions.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 5: Hymn 6: A prayer for protection and prosperity","type":"page"}