{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av06071.htm","path":"hin/av/av06071.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av06071.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1What food I eat of varied form and nature, food whether gold,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0or horse, sheep, goat, or bullock,\n \u00a0\u00a0Whatever gift I have received, may Agni the Hotar make it\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0sacrifice well-offered.\n 2Whatever, sacrificed or not, hath reached me, bestowed by men\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and sanctioned by the Fathers,\n \u00a0\u00a0Whereby my heart seems to leap up, may Agni the Hotar make\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0that sacrifice well-offered.\n 3What food I eat unjustly, Gods! or, doubtful between bestow-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ing and refusing, swallow,\n \u00a0\u00a0Through greatness of Vaisv\u0101nara the mighty may that same food\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0be sweet to me and blessed!","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 6: Hymn 71: A priest's benediction after meat","type":"page"}