{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av05030.htm","path":"hin/av/av05030.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av05030.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1From thy vicinity I call, from near, from far, from night at\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0hand.\n \u00a0\u00a0Stay here: depart not: follow not the Fathers of the olden\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0time. I bind thy vital spirit fast.\n 2If any man, a stranger or akin, hath cast a spell on thee,\n \u00a0\u00a0I with my voice to thee declare thy freedom and release there-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0from.\n 3If in thy folly thou hast lied or cursed a woman or a man,\n \u00a0\u00a0I with my voice declare to thee thy freedom and release there-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0from. p. a195\n 4If thou art lying there because of mother's or of father's sin,\n \u00a0\u00a0I with my voice declare to thee thy freedom and release there-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0from.\n 5Accept the healing medicine, the balm thy mother and thy sire,\n \u00a0\u00a0Thy sister and thy brother bring. I make thee live through\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0lengthened years.\n 6O man, stay here among us; stay with all thy spirit: follow not\n \u00a0\u00a0Yama's two messengers. Approach the castles where the living\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0dwell.\n 7Come back as thou art called to come, knowing the outlet of\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the path,\n \u00a0\u00a0And the Approach and its ascent, the way of every living man.\n 8Be not alarmed: thou wilt not die. I give thee lengthened years\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0of life.\n \u00a0\u00a0Forth from thy members have I charmed Decline that caused\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the fever there.\n 9Gone is the pain that racked thee, gone thy fever, gone thy\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0heart's disease.\n \u00a0\u00a0Consumption, conquered by my voice, hath, like a hawk, fled\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0far away.\n 10Two sages, Sense and Vigilance, the sleepless and the watchful\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0one,\n \u00a0\u00a0These, the protectors of thy life, shall be awake both day and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0night.\n 11This Agni must be waited on. Here let the Sun mount up for\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thee.\n \u00a0\u00a0Rise from deep death and come away, yea, from black darkness\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0rise thou up!\n 12Homage be paid to Yama, to Mrityu, and to the Fathers, and to\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0those who guide us!\n \u00a0\u00a0I honour first, for this man's preservation, that Agni who well\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0knoweth how to save him.\n 13Let breath and mind return to him, let sight and vigour come\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0again\n \u00a0\u00a0Let all his body be restored and firmly stand upon its feet.\n 14Provide this man with breath and sight, O Agni, and with his\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0body and his strength unite him.\n \u00a0\u00a0Thou knowest Amrit: let him not go hence, nor dwell in house\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0of clay.\n 15Let not thine inward breathing fail, let not thine outward breath p. a196\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0be lost.\n \u00a0\u00a0Let S\u016brya who is Lord Supreme raise thee from death with\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0beams of light.\n 16Tied, tremulously moving, here the tongue is speaking in the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0mouth.\n \u00a0\u00a0With thee I charmed Decline away and Fever's hundred ago-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0nies.\n 17This living world, unconquered of the Gods, is most beloved of\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0all.\n \u00a0\u00a0To whatsoever death thou wast destined when thou wast born,.\n \u00a0\u00a0O man,\n \u00a0\u00a0This death and we call after thee. Die not before decrepit age!","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 5: Hymn 30: A charm to restore life an...","type":"page"}