{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av05008.htm","path":"hin/av/av05008.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av05008.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1With fuel of Vikankata bring molten butter to the Gods.\n \u00a0\u00a0O Agni, make them joyful here: let them all come unto my call.\n 2O Indra, come unto my call, This will I do. So hear it thou.\n \u00a0\u00a0Let these exertions for the sake of Indra guide my wish aright.\n \u00a0\u00a0Therewith, O J\u0101tavedas, Lord of Bodies! may we win us strength.\n 3Whatever plot from yonder, O ye Gods, that godless man would\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0frame,\n \u00a0\u00a0Let not the Gods come to his call, nor Agni bear his offering up.\n \u00a0\u00a0Come, ye, come hither to my call.\n 4Run, ye Fxertions, farther on By Indra's order smite and slay.\n \u00a0\u00a0As a wolf worrieth a sheep, so let not him escape from you\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0while life remains. Stop fast his breath.\n 5The Br\u0101hman whom those yonder have appointed priest, for\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0injury,\n \u00a0\u00a0He, Indra! is beneath thy feet. I cast him to the God of Death.\n 6If they have issued forth, strongholds of Gods, and made their\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0shield of prayer, p. a164\n \u00a0\u00a0Gaining protection for their lives, protection round about, make\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0all their instigation powerless.\n 7Exertions which that man hath made, Exertions which he yet\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0will make\n \u00a0\u00a0Turn them, O Indra, back again, O Vritra-slayer, back again on\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0him that they may kill that man.\n 8As Indra, having seized him, set his foot upon Udv\u0101chana,\n \u00a0\u00a0Even so for all the coming years I cast those men beneath my\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0feet.\n 9Here, Indra Vritra-slayer, in thy strength pierce thou their vital.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0parts.\n \u00a0\u00a0Here, even here, attack them, O Indra. Thine own dear friend\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0am I.\n \u00a0\u00a0Indra, we closely cling to thee. May we be in thy favouring\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0grace.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 5: Hymn 8: A charm for the discomfiture and destruction of hostile priests","type":"page"}