{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av07115.htm","path":"hin/av/av07115.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av07115.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Hence. Evil Fortune! fly away, vanish from this place and from\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0that.\n \u00a0\u00a0We fix thee with an iron hook unto the man who hateth us.\n 2Granting us riches, Savitar! golden-banded, send thou away\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0from us to other regions\n \u00a0\u00a0That Fortune who, flying, abominable, hath, as a creeper climbs\u2022\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0a tree, assailed me.\n 3One and a hundred Fortunes all together are at his birth born\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0with a mortal's body.\n \u00a0\u00a0Of these we send away the most unlucky: keep lucky ones for\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0us, O J\u0101tavedas.\n 4I have disparted these and those like cows who stray on common\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0land.\n \u00a0\u00a0Here let auspicious Fortunes stay: hence have I banished evil\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ones.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 7: Hymn 115: A charm against Misfortune","type":"page"}