{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av06133.htm","path":"hin/av/av06133.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av06133.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1By the direction of that God we journey, he will seek means to\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0save and he will free us;\n \u00a0\u00a0The God who hath engirt us with this Girdle, he who hath fast-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ened it, and made us ready.\n 2Thou, weapon of the Rishis, art adored and served with\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0sacrifice.\n \u00a0\u00a0First tasting of the votive milk, Zone, be a hero-slayer thou!\n 3As I am now Death's Brahmach\u0101ri claiming out of the living\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0world a man for Yama,\n \u00a0\u00a0So with Austerity and Prayer and Fervour I bind this Girdle\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0round the man before me.\n 4She hath become, Faith's daughter, sprung from Fervour, the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0sister of the world-creating Rishis;\n \u00a0\u00a0As such, O Girdle, give us thought and wisdom, give us religious\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0zeal and mental vigour.\n 5Thou whom primeval Rishis girt about them, they who made the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0world,\n \u00a0\u00a0As such do thou encircle me, O Girdle, for long days of life.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 6: Hymn 133: A glorification of the sacred girdle","type":"page"}