{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av07053.htm","path":"hin/av/av07053.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av07053.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1As thou, Brihaspati, from the curse hast saved us, from dwel-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ling yonder in the realm of Yama,\n \u00a0\u00a0The Asvins, leeches of the Gods, O Agni, have chased Death\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0far from us with mighty powers.\n 2Move both together; do not leave the body. Let both the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0breathings stay for thee united.\n \u00a0\u00a0Waxing in strength live thou a hundred autumns. Thy noblest\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0guardian and thy lord is Agni. p. a292\n 3Return, thy life now vanished into distance! Return, the breath\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thou drawest and exhalest!\n \u00a0\u00a0Agni hath snatched it from Destruction's bosom: into thyself\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0again I introduce it.\n 4Let not the vital breath he draws forsake him, let not his\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0expiration part and leave him.\n \u00a0\u00a0I give him over to the Seven Rishis: let them conduct him to\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0old age in safety.\n 5Enter him, both ye breaths, like two draught-oxen entering their\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0stall.\n \u00a0\u00a0Let him, the treasure of old age, still wax in strength, uninjured,.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0here.\n 6I send thee back thy vital breath; I drive Consumption far from\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thee,\n \u00a0\u00a0May Agni here, most excellent, sustain our life on every side.\n 7From out the depth of darkness, we, ascending to the highest\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0heaven,\n \u00a0\u00a0Have come to the sublimest light, to S\u016brya, God among the.\n \u00a0\u00a0Gods.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 7: Hymn 53: A charm to recover a sick ...","type":"page"}