{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av06076.htm","path":"hin/av/av06076.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av06076.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Those who are sitting round this babe prepare him to be looked\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0upon.\n \u00a0\u00a0Let Agni thoroughly inflamed with all his tongues rise from his-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0heart.\n 2For length of life I use the name of Agni the Consuming God,\n \u00a0\u00a0Whose smoke the sage who knows the truth beholds proceeding.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0from his mouth.\n 3The man who knows his fuel laid in order by the Kshatriya\n \u00a0\u00a0Sets not his foot upon the steep declivity that leads to Death.\n 4Those who encompass slay him not: he goes not near his lurk\u2014\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ing foes\n \u00a0\u00a0The Kshatriya who, knowing well, takes Agni's name for length\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0of life.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 6: Hymn 76: A benediction on a new-born Kshatriya child","type":"page"}