{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av06046.htm","path":"hin/av/av06046.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av06046.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Thou, neither quick nor dead, O Sleep, art fraught with Amrit\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0of the Gods.\n \u00a0\u00a0Thy name is Araru: thy sire is Yama; Varun\u0101ni bare thee.\n 2We know thy birth, O Sleep, thou art son of the sisters of the\n \u00a0\u00a0Gods; the minister of Yama thou, thou art Antaka, thou art\n \u00a0\u00a0Death.\n \u00a0\u00a0So well we know thee who thou art. Sleep, guard us from the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0evil dream.\n 3As men discharge a debt, as they pay up an eighth and half-an-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0eighth,\n \u00a0\u00a0So the whole evil dream do we pay and assign unto our foe.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 6: Hymn 46: A charm against evil dreams","type":"page"}