{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av07083.htm","path":"hin/av/av07083.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av07083.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Stablished amid the waters is, King Varuna, thy golden home.\n \u00a0\u00a0Thence let the Sovran who maintains the statutes loose all bind-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ing cords.\n 2Hence free thou us, King Varuna, from each successive bond\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and tie.\n \u00a0\u00a0As we have cried, O Varuna! have said, The Waters, they are\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0kine, thence set us free, O Varuna.\n 3Loosen the bonds, O Varuna, that hold us, loosen the bond.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0above, between, and under.\n \u00a0\u00a0So before Aditi may we be sinless under thy favouring auspices,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u0100ditya!\n 4Varuna, free us from all snares that bind us, Varuna's bonds, the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0upper and the lower.\n \u00a0\u00a0Drive from us evil dream, drive off misfortune: then let us pass\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0into the world of virtue.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 7: Hymn 83: A prayer for deliverance from sin and other evils","type":"page"}