{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av07070.htm","path":"hin/av/av07070.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av07070.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Whatever sacrifice that man performeth with voice, mind, sacred\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0formula, oblation,\n \u00a0\u00a0May, in accord with Death, Destruction ruin his offering before\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0it gain fulfilment.\n 2For him may sorcerers, Destruction, demons strike and prevent\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0fulfilment through their falsehood.\n \u00a0\u00a0Let Gods, by Indra sent, destroy his butter, and let his sacrifice\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0be ineffective.\n 3Let the two Sovrans, swift to come, like falcons swooping on\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0their prey,\n \u00a0\u00a0Destroy the butter of the foe whoever plots to injure us.\n 4I seize thine arms and draw them back, I bind a bandage on thy\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0mouth.\n \u00a0\u00a0I with the anger of the God Agni have killed thy sacrifice. p. a300\n 5Behind thy back I tie thine arms, I bind a bandage on thy\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0mouth:\n \u00a0\u00a0With the terrific Agni's wrath have I destroyed thy sacrifice.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 7: Hymn 70: A charm to frustrate an enemy's sacrifice","type":"page"}