{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av06117.htm","path":"hin/av/av06117.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av06117.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1That which I eat, a debt which still is owing, the tribute due to\n \u00a0\u00a0Yama, which supports me, p. a255\n \u00a0\u00a0Thereby may I be free from debt, O Agni. Thou knowest how\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0to rend all bonds asunder.\n 2Still dwelling here we give again this present; we send it forth,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the living from the living.\n \u00a0\u00a0Throwing away the grain whence I have eaten, thereby shall I\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0be free from debt, O Agni.\n 3May we be free in this world and that yonder, in the third\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0world may we be unindebted.\n \u00a0\u00a0May we, debt-free, abide in all the pathways, in all the worlds\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0which Gods and Fathers visit.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 6: Hymn 117: A prayer for freedom from debt","type":"page"}