{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av19011.htm","path":"hin/av/av19011.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av19011.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1May the great Lords of Truth protect and aid us: blest to us be\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0our horses and our cattle.\n \u00a0\u00a0Kind be the pious, skilful-handed Ribhus, kind be the Fathers\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0at our invocations\n 2Kind to us be the Gods and Visve Devas, Sarasvati with Holy\n \u00a0\u00a0Thoughts be gracious.\n \u00a0\u00a0Friendly be they, the Liberal Ones, who seek us, yea, those who\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0dwell in-heaven, on earth, in waters.\n 3May Aja-Ekap\u0101d the God be gracious, gracious the Dragon of\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the Deep, and Ocean.\n \u00a0\u00a0Gracious be he, the swelling Child of Waters, gracious be Prisni\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0who hath Gods to guard her.\n 4So may the Rudras, Vasus, and \u0100dityas accept the new hymn we\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0now are making.\n \u00a0\u00a0May all the Holy Ones of earth and heaven, and the Cow's off-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0spring hear our invocation.\n 5Priests of the Gods, worthy of sacrifices, immortal, knowing\n \u00a0\u00a0Law, whom man must worship.\n \u00a0\u00a0May these to-day give us broad paths to travel. Preserve us\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0evermore, ye Gods, with blessings.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 19: Hymn 11: A continuation of Hymn 10","type":"page"}