{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av05028.htm","path":"hin/av/av05028.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av05028.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1For lengthened life, to last through hundred autumns, they\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0equalize with nine the nine aspirations.\n \u00a0\u00a0Three in gold, three in silver, three in iron by heat are stablished\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0in their several places.\n 2May Agni, Sun, and Moon, and Earth, and Waters, Sky, Air,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the Quarters and the Points between them,\n \u00a0\u00a0And Parts of Years accordant with the Seasons by this three-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0threaded Amulet preserve me.\n 3In three-threaded Charm rest triple fulness! Let P\u016bshan cover it\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0with milk and butter.\n \u00a0\u00a0Here rest abundant store of food and people, may ample store\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0of cattle rest within it.\n 4Enrich this charm, \u0100dityas, with your treasure; magnify this,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0when magnified, O Agni.\n \u00a0\u00a0Endow it with heroic strength, O Indra: therein be lodged a\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0triple power of increase.\n 5With gold let Earth protect thee, and with iron, accordant, all-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0sustaining Agni save thee!\n \u00a0\u00a0And in accordance with the plants may silver, regarding thee\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0with favour, grant thee vigour.\n 6This gold, born threefold at its first production, grew the one\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thing that Agni loved most dearly: it fell away, one part of\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0injured Soma.\n \u00a0\u00a0One part they call seed of the sapient Waters. This gold bring\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thee long life when triply threaded!\n 7Three lives of Jamadagni, thrice the vital force of Kasyapa,\n \u00a0\u00a0Three sights of immortality, three lives have I prepared for thee.\n 8When with the three-stringed charm came three strong eagles,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0sharing the Sacred Syllable and mighty,\n \u00a0\u00a0With immortality they drove off Mrityu, obscuring and conceal-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ing all distresses.\n 9The golden guard thee from the sky, the silvern guard thee from\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the air,\n \u00a0\u00a0The iron guard thee from the earth! This man hath reached the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0forts of Gods.\n 10May these three castles of the Gods keep thee secure on every\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0side.\n \u00a0\u00a0Endowed with strength, possessing these, be thou the master of\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thy foes, p. a192\n 11The God who first bound on in the beginning the deities' im-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0mortal golden castle,\u2014\n \u00a0\u00a0Him I salute with ten extended fingers. Blest be the three-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0stringed charm I bind upon thee.\n 12Aryaman be thy binder-on, and P\u016bshan and Brihaspati:\n \u00a0\u00a0Whatever name the brood of day possess, therewith we fasten\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thee.\n 13With Seasons and with Lengths of Time, for vigour and exten-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ded life,\n \u00a0\u00a0With all the splendour of the Sun we fasten thee about the neck.\n 14Drawn forth from butter and with meath besprinkled, firm as\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the earth, unshakable, triumphant.\n \u00a0\u00a0Breaking down foes and casting them beneath me, be fastened\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0on me for exalted fortune!","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 5: Hymn 28: A charm to ensure general ...","type":"page"}