{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av19033.htm","path":"hin/av/av19033.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av19033.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Hundred stemmed, succulent, and worth a thousand, the Royal\n \u00a0\u00a0Rite of plants, the Water's Agni,\n \u00a0\u00a0Let this same Darbha guard us from all quarters. This Godlike\n \u00a0\u00a0Amulet shall with life endow us.\n 2Drawn forth from butter, juicy, sweetly-flavoured, firm as the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0earth, unshaken, overthrowing.\n \u00a0\u00a0Driving off foes and casting them beneath me, mount with the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0strength of mighty Ones, O Darbha.\n 3Thou movest o'er the earth with vigour: lovely in sacrifice thou\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0sittest on the altar.\n \u00a0\u00a0The Rishis bear thee as a purifier: cleanse thou us from all evil\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0deeds' defilement.\n 4A stern and all-victorious king, foe-queller, dear to every man\u2014\n \u00a0\u00a0That energy of Gods and mighty power, I bind this on thee for\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0long life and welfare. p. 239\n 5Achieve heroic deeds with Darbha, wearing this Darbha never\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0let thy soul be troubled.\n \u00a0\u00a0In splendour and precedence over others illumine like the Sun\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the heaven's four regions.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 19: Hymn 33: A protective and benedictive charm","type":"page"}