{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av19050.htm","path":"hin/av/av19050.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av19050.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Blind him and make him headless, Night! the serpent with the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0pungent breath.\n \u00a0\u00a0Strike from his head the wolf's two eyes, and dash the thief\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0against a post.\n 2Those oxen that are thine, O Night, with sharpened horns and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0rapid pace,\n \u00a0\u00a0With those transport us safe to-day o'er difficulties everywhere.\n 3Uninjured in our bodies may we pass through each succeeding\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0night,\n \u00a0\u00a0And let malignities fail to pass, as men without a boat the depth.\n 4As millet hurried through the air before us is beheld no more.\n \u00a0\u00a0So cause the man to vanish, Night, who plans to do us injury.\n 5The thief hast thou kept far away, the robber driver of our kine.\n \u00a0\u00a0Even him who having covered up the horse's head would lead\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0him off.\n 6If dealing treasure thou hast come to-day, O highly favoured\n \u00a0\u00a0Night.\n \u00a0\u00a0Cause thou us to enjoy it all so that this may not pass away. p. 253\n 7Do thou entrust us to the Dawn, all of us free from sin, O\n \u00a0\u00a0Night.\n \u00a0\u00a0May Dawn deliver us to Day, and Day to thee, O glorious One.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 19: Hymn 50: A hymn to Night for prote...","type":"page"}