{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av20141.htm","path":"hin/av/av20141.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av20141.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Come as home-guardians, saving us from foemen, guarding our\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0living creatures and our bodies,\n \u00a0\u00a0Come to the house to give us seed and offspring:\n 2Whatever with Indra ye be faring, Asvins, or resting in one\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0dwelling-place with V\u0101yu,\n \u00a0\u00a0In concord with the Ribhus or \u0100dityas, or standing still in\n \u00a0\u00a0Vishnu's striding-places.\n 3When 1, O Asvins, call on you to-day that I may gather strength,\n \u00a0\u00a0Or as all-conquering might in war, be that the Asvins' noblest\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0grace.\n 4Now come, ye Asvins, hitherward: here are oblations set for\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0you;\n \u00a0\u00a0These Soma draughts to aid Yadu and Turvasa, these offered\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0you mid Kanva's sons.\n 5Whatever healing balm is yours, N\u0101satyas near or far away,\n \u00a0\u00a0Therewith, great Sages, grant a home to Vatsa and to Vim\u0101da.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 20: Hymn 141: Hymn to the Asvins","type":"page"}