{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av19027.htm","path":"hin/av/av19027.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av19027.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Let the Bull guard thee with the kine, the Stallien with the fleet-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0foot steeds. p. 233\n \u00a0\u00a0Let V\u0101yu keep thee safe with prayer, and Indra with his mighty\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0power.\n 2Let Soma guard thee with the plants, S\u016brya protect thee with\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the stars;\n \u00a0\u00a0With breath let Wind protect thee, and the Moon, foe-slayer,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0with the months.\n 3Three are the earths, they say, and three the heavens, three are\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the atmospheres, and four the oceans.\n \u00a0\u00a0Threefold the hymn of praise, threefold the Waters. Let these\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0with triple song and triplets guard thee.\n 4Three vaults of heaven, and three seas, three bright, three\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0stationary ones,\n \u00a0\u00a0Three M\u0101tarisvans, and three suns, protectors, I arrange for\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thee.\n 5Increasing thee with butter I, Agni! with fatness sprinkle thee.\n \u00a0\u00a0Let not magicians harm the life of Agni or of Moon or Sun.\n 6 Let not magicians mar your heat, your vital or diffusive breath.\n \u00a0\u00a0Brilliant and all-possessing Gods, run ye your course with God-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0like power.\n 7Fire they endow with vital breath, Wind is compact, with vital\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0breath:\n \u00a0\u00a0With vital breath the Gods produced the Sun whose face turn\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0every way.\n 8Live with the Life-Creators' life. Die not, live on to lengthened\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0age.\n \u00a0\u00a0Live with the breath of men with souls. Submit not to the power\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0of Death.\n 9The secret treasure of the Gods which Indra, by pathways\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0travelled by the Gods, discovered,\n \u00a0\u00a0That gold the Waters with the triplets guarded. May they keep\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thee with threebold hymn and triplets.\n 10With friendly thoughts the Deities, three-and thirty, and three\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0great Powers preserved it in the Waters.\n \u00a0\u00a0He made heroic powers with the gold that lies upon this Moon.\n 11O ye eleven Gods who are in heaven, accept this sacrifice.\n 12O ye eleven Gods who are in air, accept this sacrifice.\n 13O ye eleven Gods who are on earth, accept this sacrifice.\n 1415 repeated from XIX. 16. 1, 2.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 19: Hymn 27: A benedictory hymn","type":"page"}