{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av19015.htm","path":"hin/av/av19015.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av19015.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Indra, give us security from that whereof we are afraid.\n \u00a0\u00a0Help us, O Maghavan, let thy succour grant us this: drive foes\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and enemies afar.\n 2We call on Indra, on the liberal giver: we will be prosperous in\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0men and cattle.\n \u00a0\u00a0Let not the hosts of cruel fiends approach us. Drive of the\n \u00a0\u00a0Druhs to every side, O Indra.\n 3Best, making household wealth increase. Indra our saviour, kills\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the foe.\n \u00a0\u00a0May he from outmost point be our potector, and from the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0centre and from west and eastward.\n 4Lead us to ample room. O thou who knowest, to happiness\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0security, and sunlight.\n \u00a0\u00a0Strong, Indra, are the arms of thee the mighty: may we betake\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0us to their lofty shelter.\n 5May air's mid-region give us peace and safety, safety may both\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0these, Heaven and Earth, afford us.\n \u00a0\u00a0Security be ours from west, from eastward, from north and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0south may we be free from danger.\n 6Safety be ours from friend and from the unfriendly, safety from\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0what we know and what we know not.\n \u00a0\u00a0Safety be ours by night and in the day-time! friendly to me be\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0all my hopes and wishes!","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 19: Hymn 15: A prayer for peace and security","type":"page"}