{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av05007.htm","path":"hin/av/av05007.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av05007.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Bring thou to us, bar not the way, Ar\u0101ti! Stay not the guerdon\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0that is being brought us.\n \u00a0\u00a0Homage be paid to Failure, to Misfortune, and Malignity.\n 2The man whom thou preferrest, O Ar\u0101ti, he who prates to us\u2014\n \u00a0\u00a0This man of thine, we reverence. Baffle not thou my heart's\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0desire,\n 3May our desire which Gods have roused fulfil itself by day and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0night.\n \u00a0\u00a0We seek to win Ar\u0101ti: to Ar\u0101ti be our homage paid.\n 4We, suppliant, call on Bhaga, on Sarasvati, Anumati,\n \u00a0\u00a0Pleasant words have I spoken, sweet as honey is, at invocations\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0of the Gods.\n 5The portion that I crave with speech intelligent and full of\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0power,\n \u00a0\u00a0May faith, presented with the gift of tawny Soma, find to-day.\n 6Do not thou make our words or wishes fruitless. Let the twain\n \u00a0\u00a0Indra Agni, bring us treasures.\n \u00a0\u00a0All, fain to-day to give us gifts, welcome Ar\u0101ti with your love. p. a163\n 7Misfortune! go thou far away: we turn thy harmful dart aside.\n \u00a0\u00a0I know thee well, Ar\u0101ti! as oppressor, one who penetrates.\n 8Oft, coming as a naked girl thou hauntest people in their sleep,\n \u00a0\u00a0Baffling the thought, Ar\u0101ti! and the firm intention of a man.\n 9To her the mighty vast in size, who penetrates all points of\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0space,\n \u00a0\u00a0To her mine homage have I paid, Nirriti with her golden hair.\n 10Auspicious, with her golden hue, pillowed on gold, the mighty\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0one\n \u00a0\u00a0To this Ar\u0101ti clad in robes of gold mine homage have I paid.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 5: Hymn 7: A charm to deprecate Ar\u0101ti or Malignity","type":"page"}