{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv10162.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv10162.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv10162.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. MAY Agni, yielding to our prayer, the Rak\u1e63as-slayer, drive away\n The malady of evil name that hath beset thy labouring womb.\n 2 Agni, concurring in the prayer, drive off the eater of the flesh,\n The malady of evil name that hath attacked thy babe and womb.\n 3 That which destroys the sinking germ, the settled, moving embryo,\n That which will kill the babe at birth,\u2014even this will we drive far away.\n 4 That which divides thy legs that it may lie between the married pair,\n That penetrates and licks thy side,\u2014even this will we exterminate.\n 5 What rests by thee in borrowed form of brother, lover, or of lord,\n And would destroy thy Progeny,\u2014even this will we exterminate.\n 6 That which through sleep or darkness hath deceived thee and lies down by thee,\n And will destroy thy progeny,\u2014even this will we exterminate.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 10: HYMN CLXII. Agni","type":"page"}