{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av06051.htm","path":"hin/av/av06051.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av06051.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Cleansed by the filter of the Wind comes Soma past all our\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0enemies, meet friend of Indra.\n 2May the maternal Waters make us ready: cleanse us with fat-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ness they who cleanse with fatness!\n \u00a0\u00a0The Goddesses bear off each blot and tarnish: I come forth\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0from the waters cleansed and stainless.\n 3O Varuna, whatever the offence may be, the sin which men\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0commit against the heavenly folk\u2014 p. a224\n \u00a0\u00a0When, through our want of thought we violate thy laws, punish\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0us not, O God, for that iniquity.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 6: Hymn 51: A prayer for purification and forgiveness of sins","type":"page"}