{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av06028.htm","path":"hin/av/av06028.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av06028.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Drive forth the Dove, chase it with holy verses: rejoicing bring\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0we hither food and cattle,\n \u00a0\u00a0Obliterating traces of misfortune. Most fleet may it fly forth and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0leave us vigour.\n 2These men have strengthened Agni's might, these men have\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0brought the kine to us.\n \u00a0\u00a0They have sung glory to the Gods. Who is the man that con-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0quers them?\n 3Be reverence paid to him who, while exploring the path for\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0many, first approached the river,\n \u00a0\u00a0Lord of this world of quadrupeds and bipeds; to him be rever-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ence paid, to Death, to Yama!","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 6: Hymn 28: A charm to avert misfortune foreshown by the coming of a dove","type":"page"}