{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av19047.htm","path":"hin/av/av19047.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av19047.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Night! the terrestrial realm hath been filled with the Father's\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0power and might.\n \u00a0\u00a0Thou spreadest forth on high unto the seats of Heaven: dark-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ness that strikes with awe comes near.\n 2Each moving thing finds rest in her whose yonder boundary is\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0not seen, nor that which keeps her separate.\n \u00a0\u00a0O spacious, darksome Night, may we uninjured reach the end of\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thee, reach, O thou blessed One, thine end.\n 3Thy ninety-nine examiners, O Night, who look upon mankind,\n \u00a0\u00a0Eighty-and-eight in number, or seven-and-seventy are they.\n 4Sixty-and-six, O opulent, fifty-and-five, O happy One,\n \u00a0\u00a0Forty-and-four and thirty-three are they, O thou enriched with\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0spoil.\n 5Twenty-and-two hast thou, O Night, eleven, yea, and fewer still.\n \u00a0\u00a0With these protectors guard us well. O Daughter of the Sky, to-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0day.\n 6Let not a fiends or spiteful man, let no ill-wisher master us.\n \u00a0\u00a0Let not the robber seize our cows, nor the wolf take our sheep\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0today.\n 7Let not the thief, O Blessed, seize our horses, nor she-fiends our\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0men.\n \u00a0\u00a0Let thief and robber run away on pathways most remote from\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0us.\n 8Far from us let Rope with Fangs, far from us let the wicked\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0flee.\n \u00a0\u00a0Do thou make blind and headless. Night, the serpent with his\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0pungent breath.\n 9Crush the wolf's jaws in pieces, strike the robber dead against a\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0post. p. 250\n \u00a0\u00a0In thee, O Night, do we abide: we here will sleep. Be watchful\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thou.\n 10Give thou protection to our kine; and to our horses, and our\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0men.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 19: Hymn 47: A hymn to Night for protection from fiends, robbers, snakes and wolves","type":"page"}