{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av06063.htm","path":"hin/av/av06063.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av06063.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1That collar round thy neck, not to be loosened, which Nirriti\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the Goddess bound and fastened,\n \u00a0\u00a0I loose for thy long life and strength and vigour. Eat, liberated,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0food that brings no sorrow.\n 2To thee, sharp-pointed Nirriti, be homage! Loose thou the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0binding fetters wrought of iron.\n \u00a0\u00a0To me, in truth, again doth Yama give thee. To him, to Yama,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0yea, to Death, be homage!\n 3Compassed by death which comes in thousand manners, here\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0art thou fastened to the iron pillar.\n \u00a0\u00a0Unanimous with Yama and the Fathers, make this man rise and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0reach the loftiest heaven.\n 4Thou, mighty Agni, good and true, gatherest up all precious\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0things.\n \u00a0\u00a0Bring us all treasures as thou art enkindled at libation's place.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 6: Hymn 63: The symbolical liberation of a sacrificial victim","type":"page"}