{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av20096.htm","path":"hin/av/av20096.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av20096.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Taste this strong draught that gives thee vital vigour: with all\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thy chariot here unyoke thy coursers.\n \u00a0\u00a0Let not those other sacrificers stay thee, Indra: these juices shed\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0for thee are ready.\n 2Thine is the juice effused, thine are the juices yet to be pressed:\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0our resonant songs invite thee.\n \u00a0\u00a0O Indra, pleased to-day with this libation, come, thou who\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0knowest all, and drink the Soma.\n 3Whoso, devoted to the God, effuses Soma for him with yearning\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0heart and spirit,\n \u00a0\u00a0Never doth Indra give away his cattle: for him he makes the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0lovely Soma famous.\n 4He looks with loving favour on the mortal who, like a rich man,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0pours for him the Soma.\n \u00a0\u00a0Maghavan in his bended arm supports him: he slays, unasked,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the men who hate devotion.\n 5We call on thee to come to us, desirous of booty, and of cattle,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and of horses. p. 344\n \u00a0\u00a0For thy new love and favour are we present: let us invoke thee,\n \u00a0\u00a0Indra, as our welfare.\n 6For life I set thee free by this oblation from the unknown\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0decline and from consumption;\n \u00a0\u00a0Or, if the grasping demon have possessed him, free him from\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0her, O Indra, thou and Agni.\n 7Be his days ended, be he how departed, be he brought very near\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0to death already,\n \u00a0\u00a0Out of Destruction's lap again I bring him, save him for life to\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0last a hundred autumns.\n 8With thousand-eyed oblation, hundred-autumned, bringing a\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0hundred lives, have 1 restored him.\n \u00a0\u00a0That Indra for a hundred years may lead him safe to the farther\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0shore of all misfortune.\n 9Live waxing in thy strength a hundred autumns, live through a\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0hundred springs, a hundred winters.\n \u00a0\u00a0Through hundred-lived oblation Indra, Agni, Brihaspati, Savitar\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0yield him for a hundred!\n 10So have I found and rescued thee: thou hast returned with\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0youth renewed.\n \u00a0\u00a0Whole in thy members! I have found whole sight and all thy\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0life for thee.\n 11May Agni yielding to our prayer, the Rakshas-killer, drive away.\n \u00a0\u00a0The malady of evil name that hath beset thy labouring womb.\n 12Agni, concurring in the prayer, drive off the eater of thy flesh,\n \u00a0\u00a0The malady of evil name that hath attacked thy babe and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0womb.\n 13That which destroys the sinking germ, the settled, moving\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0embryo,\n \u00a0\u00a0That which would kill the babe at birth, even this will we drive\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0far away.\n 14That which divides thy legs that it may lie between the married\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0pair,\n \u00a0\u00a0That penetrates and licks thy side, even this will we exterminate.\n 15What rests by thee in borrowed form of brother, lover, or of\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0lord,\n \u00a0\u00a0And would destroyed the progeny,\u2014even this will we exter-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0minate.\n 16That which through sleep or darkness hath deceived thee and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0lies down by thee, p. 345\n \u00a0\u00a0And will destroy thy progeny,\u2014even this will we exterminate.\n 17From both thy nostrils, from thine eyes, from both thine ears\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and from thy chin,\n \u00a0\u00a0Forth from thy head and brain and tongue I drive thy malady\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0away.\n 18From the neck-tendons and the neck, from the breast-bones\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and from the spine,\n \u00a0\u00a0From shoulders, upper, lower arms, I drive thy malady away.\n 19From viscera and all within, forth from the rectum, from the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0heart,\n \u00a0\u00a0From kidneys, liver and from spleen, I drive thy malady away.\n 20From thighs, from knee-caps, and from heels, and from the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0forepart of the feet,\n \u00a0\u00a0From hips, from stomach, and from groin, I drive thy malady\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0away.\n 21From what is voided from within, and from thy hair, and from\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thy nails,\n \u00a0\u00a0From all thyself, from top to toe, I drive thy malady away.\n 22From every member, every hair, disease that comes in every\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0joint,\n \u00a0\u00a0From all thyself, from top to toe, I drive thy malady away.\n 23Avaunt, thou Master of the Mind, I Depart and vanish far away.\n \u00a0\u00a0Look on Destruction far from us. The live man's mind is\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0manifold.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 20: Hymn 96","type":"page"}