{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av07060.htm","path":"hin/av/av07060.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av07060.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1I, prudent, bringing power, a treasure-winner, with amicable\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0eye that strikes no terror,\n \u00a0\u00a0Come, praising and kind-thoughted, to these houses: be not\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0afraid of me, be glad and joyful.\n 2Let these delightful Houses that are rich in power and store of\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0milk,\n \u00a0\u00a0Replete with wealth and standing firm, become aware of our\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0approach.\n 3These Houses we invoke, whereon the distant exile sets his\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thought, p. a296\n \u00a0\u00a0Wherein dwells many a friendly heart: let them beware of our\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0approach.\n 4Thus greeted, ye of ample wealth, friends who enjoy delightful\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0sweets.\n \u00a0\u00a0Be ever free from hunger, free from thirst! Ye Houses, fear us\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0not.\n 5Kind greeting to the cattle here, kind greeting to the goats and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0sheep!\n \u00a0\u00a0Then, of the food within our homes, kind greeting to the plea-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0sant drink!\n 6Full of refreshment, full of charms, of laughter and felicity,\n \u00a0\u00a0Be ever free from hunger, free from thirst! Ye Houses, fear us\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0not.\n \u00a0\u00a0Stay here, and come not after me: prosper in every form and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0shape.\n \u00a0\u00a0With happy fortune will I come! Grow more abundant still\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0through me!","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 7: Hymn 60: A parting traveller's addr...","type":"page"}