{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av06121.htm","path":"hin/av/av06121.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av06121.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Spreading them out, untie the snares that hold us, Varuna's\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0bonds, the upper and the lower.\n \u00a0\u00a0Drive from us evil dream, drive off misfortune; then let us go in-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0to the world of virtue.\n 2If thou art bound with cord or tied to timber, fixt in the earth,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0or by a word imprisoned,\n \u00a0\u00a0Our Agni G\u0101rhapatya here shall free thee, and lead thee up into\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the world of virtue.\n 3The two auspicious stars whose name is called Releasers have\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0gone up.\n \u00a0\u00a0Send Amrit hither, let it come freeing the captive from his\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0bonds!\n 4Open thyself, make room: from bonds thou shalt release the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0prisoner.\n \u00a0\u00a0Freed, like an infant newly born, dwell in all pathways where\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thou wilt.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 6: Hymn 121: A prayer for happiness in heaven","type":"page"}