{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av06118.htm","path":"hin/av/av06118.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av06118.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1If we have sinned with both our hands, desiring to take the host\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0of dice for our possession,\n \u00a0\u00a0May both Apsarases to-day forgive us that debt, the fiercely-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0conquering, fiercely-looking.\n 2Stern viewers of their sins who rule the people, forgive us what\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0hash happened as we gambled.\n \u00a0\u00a0Not urging us to pay the debt we owed him, he with a cord\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0hath gone to Yama's kingdom.\n 3My creditor, the man whose wife I visit, he, Gods! whom I\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0approach with supplication,\n \u00a0\u00a0Let not these men dominate me in speaking. Mind this, ye two\n \u00a0\u00a0Apsarases, Gods' Consorts!","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 6: Hymn 118: A prayer for pardon of cheating at play","type":"page"}