{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av06084.htm","path":"hin/av/av06084.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av06084.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Thou in whose dread mouth I present oblation, that these bound\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0victims may obtain their freedom,\n \u00a0\u00a0The people deem that thou art Earth: I know thee thoroughly,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and I say thou art Destruction.\n 2Be thou enriched, O Welfare, with oblations, here among us is\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thine allotted portion.\n \u00a0\u00a0Free\u2014Hail to thee!\u2014from sin those here and yonder.\n 3Do thou, Destruction, thus, without a rival, release us from the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0iron bonds that hind us.\n \u00a0\u00a0To me doth Yama verily restore thee. To him, to Yama, yea, to\n \u00a0\u00a0Death be worship!\n 4Thou hast been fastened to an iron pillar, here compassed with\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0a thousand deaths around thee.\n \u00a0\u00a0In full accord with Yama and the Fathers, send this man up-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ward to the loftiest heaven.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 6: Hymn 84: A charm to accompany the symbolical loosing of sacrificial victims","type":"page"}