{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av11006.htm","path":"hin/av/av11006.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av11006.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1We call on Agni, on the trees lords of the forest, herbs and.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0plants,\n \u00a0\u00a0Indra, S\u016brya, Brihaspati: may they deliver us from woe.\n 2We call on Vishnu, Bhaga, on Mitra and Varuna the King,\n \u00a0\u00a0Ansa Vivasv\u0101n we address: may they deliver us from woe.\n 3We call on Savitar the God, on P\u016bshan the establisher, p. 59\n \u00a0\u00a0Tvashtar the foremost we address: may they deliver us from\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0woe.\n 4Gandharvas and Apsarases; the Asvins, Br\u0101hmanaspati,\n \u00a0\u00a0Aryaman, God, by name we call: may they deliver us from woe.\n 5This word of ours to Day and Night, and to the Sun and Moon\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0we speak,\n \u00a0\u00a0All the \u0100dityas we address: may they deliver us from woe.\n 6V\u0101ta, Parjanya we address, the Quarters, and the Firmament,\n \u00a0\u00a0And all the Regions of the sky: may they deliver us from woe.\n 7From all that brings a curse may Day and Night and Dawn\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0deliver me,\n \u00a0\u00a0May Soma free me, God to whom they give the name of Chan-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0dram\u0101s.\n 8All creatures both of heaven and earth, wild beasts and sylvan\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0animals,\n \u00a0\u00a0And winged birds of air we call: may they deliver us from woe.\n 9Bhava and Sarva we address, and Rudra who is Lord of Beasts,\n \u00a0\u00a0Their arrows which we feel and know: may they be ever kind to\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0us.\n 10We speak to Constellations, Heaven, to Earth, to Genii, and to\n \u00a0\u00a0Hills,\n \u00a0\u00a0To Seas, to Rivers, and to Lakes: may they deliver us from woe.\n 11Or the Seven Rishis we address, Waters divine, Praj\u0101pati,\n \u00a0\u00a0Fathers with Yama at their head: may they deliver us from woe.\n 12Gods whose abode is in the heaven and those who dwell in\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0middle air,\n \u00a0\u00a0And Mighty ones who rest on earth: may they deliver us from.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0woe.\n 13\u0100dityas, Rudra, Vasus, Gods aloft in heaven, Atharvan's sons,\n \u00a0\u00a0The sages, sons of Angiras: may they deliver us from woe.\n 14To sacrifice, to worshipper, hymns, songs, and healing charms,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0we speak,\n \u00a0\u00a0To priestly acts and Yajus texts: may they deliver us from woe.\n 15To the five kingdoms of the plants which Soma rules as Lord we\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0speak.\n \u00a0\u00a0Darbha, hemp, barley, mighty power: may these deliver us from\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0woe,\n 16To demons and fierce fiends we speak, to Holy Genii, Fathers,.\n \u00a0\u00a0Snakes, p. 60\n \u00a0\u00a0And to the hundred deaths and one: may these deliver us from\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0woe.\n 17We speak to Seasons, Season-Lords, to years and sections of the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0year,\n \u00a0\u00a0To Months, half-months, and years complete: may they deliver\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0us from woe.\n 18Come hither from the south, ye Gods, rise and come forward\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0from the west.\n \u00a0\u00a0Gathered together, all ye Gods, ye mighty Ones, from east and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and north: may they deliver us from woe.\n 19This we address to all the Gods, faithful, maintainers of the\n \u00a0\u00a0Right,\n \u00a0\u00a0With all their Consorts by their side: may they deliver us from\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0woe.\n 20We speak to the collected Gods, faithful, maintainers of the\n \u00a0\u00a0Right.\n \u00a0\u00a0Present with their collective Dames: may these deliver us from\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0woe.\n 21The spirit, yea, the spirits' Lord, ruler of spirits, we address.\n \u00a0\u00a0Together let all spirits meet: may these deliver us from woe.\n 22The five Sky regions, Goddesses, and the twelve Seasons which\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0are Gods.\n \u00a0\u00a0The teeth of the completed year, may these deliver us from woe.\n 23The deathless balm that M\u0101tal\u012b knows, purchased at a chariot's\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0price,\n \u00a0\u00a0Indra effused into the floods. Waters, give us that healing\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0balm!","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 11: Hymn 6: A prayer to all Divinities...","type":"page"}