{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av08002.htm","path":"hin/av/av08002.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av08002.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Seize to thyself this trust of life for ever: thine be longevity\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0which nothing shortens.\n \u00a0\u00a0Thy spirit and thy life again I bring thee: die not, nor vanish\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0into mist and darkness.\n 2Come to the light of living men, come hither: I draw thee to a\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0life of hundred autumns.\n \u00a0\u00a0Loosing the bonds of Death, the curse that holds thee, I give thee\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0age of very long duration.\n 3Thy breath have I recovered from the Wind, thy vision from the\n \u00a0\u00a0Sun.\n \u00a0\u00a0Thy mind I stablish and secure within thee: feel in thy members,.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0use thy tongue, conversing.\n 4I blow upon thee with the breath of bipeds and quadrupeds, as\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0on a fire new-kindled.\n \u00a0\u00a0To thee, O Death, and to thy sight and breath have I paid\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0reverence.\n 5Let this man live, let him not die: we raise him, we recover him.\n \u00a0\u00a0I make for him a healing balm. O Death, forbear to slay this\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0man. p. a325\n 6Here for sound health I invocate a living animating plant,\n \u00a0\u00a0Preserving, queller of disease, victorious, full of power and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0might.\n 7Seize him not, but encourage and release him: here let him stay,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0though thine, in all his vigour.\n \u00a0\u00a0Bhava and Sarva, pity and protect him: give him full life and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0drive away misfortunes.\n 8Comfort him, Death, and pity him: let him arise and pass away,\n \u00a0\u00a0Unharmed, with all his members, hearing well, with old, may he\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0through hundred years win profit with his soul.\n 9May the Gods' missile pass thee by. I bring thee safe from the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0mist: from death have I preserved thee.\n \u00a0\u00a0Far have I banished flesh-consuming Agni: I place a rampart\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0for thy life's protection.\n 10Saving him from that misty path of thine which cannot be\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0defined.\n \u00a0\u00a0From that descent of thine, O Death, we make for him a shield\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0of prayer.\n 11I give thee both the acts of breath, health, lengthened life, and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0death by age.\n \u00a0\u00a0All Yama's messengers who roam around, sent by Vaivasvata,\n \u00a0\u00a0I chase away.\n 12Far off we drive Malignity, Destruction, Pis\u0101chas banqueters on\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0flesh, and Gr\u0101hi.\n \u00a0\u00a0And all the demon kind, the brood of sin, like darkness, we\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0dispel.\n 13I win thy life from Agni, from the living everlasting J\u0101tavedas.\n \u00a0\u00a0This I procure for thee, that thou, undying, mayst not suffer\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0harm, that thou mayst be content, that all be well with thee.\n 14Gracious to thee be Heaven and Earth, bringing no grief, and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0drawing nigh!\n \u00a0\u00a0Pleasantly shine the Sun for thee, the Wind blow sweetly to\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thy heart!\n \u00a0\u00a0Let the celestial Waters full of milk flow happily for thee.\n 15Auspicious be the Plants to thee! I have upraised thee, borne\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thee from the lower to the upper earth:\n \u00a0\u00a0Let the two Sons of Aditi, the Sun and Moon, protect thee there.\n 16Whatever robe to cover thee or zone thou makest for thyself,\n \u00a0\u00a0We make it pleasant to thy frame: may it be soft and smooth\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0to touch. p. a326\n 17When, with a very keen and cleasing razor, our hair and beards\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thou shavest as a barber,\n \u00a0\u00a0Smoothing our face steal not our vital forces.\n 18Auspicious unto thee be rice and barley, causing no painful sick-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ness or consumption, these deliver from calamity.\n 19Thy food, thy drink, whate'er they be corn grown by cultivation,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0milk,\n \u00a0\u00a0Food eatable, uneatable, I make all poisonless for thee.\n 20We give thee over as a charge to Day and Night, in trust to\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0both.\n \u00a0\u00a0Keep him for me from stingy fiends, from those who fain would\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0feed on him.\n 21A hundred, yea, ten thousand years we give thee, ages two,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0three, four.\n \u00a0\u00a0May Indra, Agni, all the Gods, with willing favour look on thee.\n 22To Autumn we deliver thee, to Winter, Spring and Summer's\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0care.\n \u00a0\u00a0We trust thee with auspicious years wherein the plants and herbs\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0grow up.\n 23Death is the lord of bipeds, Death is sovran lord of quadrupeds.\n \u00a0\u00a0Away I bear thee from that: Death the ruler: be not thou\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0afraid.\n 24Thou, still uninjured, shalt not die: be not afraid; thou shalt\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0not die.\n \u00a0\u00a0Here where I am men do not die or go to lowest depths of\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0gloom.\n 25Here verily all creatures live, the cow, the horse, the man, the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0beast,\n \u00a0\u00a0Here where this holy prayer is used, a rampart that protecteth\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0life.\n \u00a0\u00a0Let it preserve thee from thy peers, from incantation, from thy\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0friends.\n 26Live very long, be healthy, be immortal: let not the vital breath\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0forsake thy body.\n 27One and a hundred modes of death, dangers that may be over-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0come,\n \u00a0\u00a0May Gods deliver thee from this when Agni, dear to all men,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0bids.\n 28Body of Agni prompt to save, slayer of fiends and foes art thou,\n \u00a0\u00a0Yea, banisher of malady, the healing balm called P\u016btudru.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 8: Hymn 2: The same","type":"page"}