{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av07012.htm","path":"hin/av/av07012.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av07012.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1In concord may Prajapati's two daughters, Gathering and As-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0sembly, both protect me.\n \u00a0\u00a0May every man I meet respect and aid me. Fair be my words,\n \u00a0\u00a0O Fathers, at the meetings.\n 2We know thy name, O Conference: thy name is interchange of\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0talk.\n \u00a0\u00a0Let all the company who join the Conference agree with me.\n 3Of these men seated here I make the splendour and the lore\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0mine own.\n \u00a0\u00a0Indra, make me conspicuous in all this gathered company.\n 4Whether your thoughts are turned away, or bound and fastened\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0here or there,\n \u00a0\u00a0We draw them hitherward again: let your mind firmly rest on\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0me.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 7: Hymn 12: A prayer for influence at deliberative and religious meetings","type":"page"}