{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av07009.htm","path":"hin/av/av07009.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av07009.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1P\u016bshan was born to move on distant pathways, on roads remote\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0from earth, remote from heaven.\n \u00a0\u00a0To both most lovely places of assembly he travels and returns\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0with perfect knowledge.\n 2P\u016bshan knows all these realms: may he conduct us by ways that\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0are most free from fear and danger.\n \u00a0\u00a0Giver of blessings, glowing, all heroic, may he the wise and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0watchful go before us.\n 3We are thy praisers here, O P\u016bshan: never let us be injured\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0under thy protection.\n 4From out the distance, far and wide, may P\u016bshan stretch his\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0right hand forth.\n \u00a0\u00a0Let him drive back our lost to us, let us return with what is lost.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 7: Hymn 9: A prayer to P\u016bshan for protection and the recovery of lost property","type":"page"}