{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe42/av197.htm","path":"hin/sbe42/av197.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe42/av197.htm","text":"1. Thou who art neither alive nor dead, the immortal child of the gods art thou, O Sleep! Varun\u00e2n\u00ee is thy mother, Yama (death) thy father, Araru is thy name.\n 2. We know, O Sleep, thy birth, thou art the son of the divine women-folk, the instrument of Yama (death)! Thou art the ender, thou art death! Thus do we know thee, O Sleep: do thou, O Sleep, protect us from evil dreams!\n 3. As one pays off a sixteenth, an eighth, or an (entire) debt, thus do we transfer every evil dream upon our enemy.","title":"Atharva Veda: VIII. Charms In Expiation of Sin and Defile...","type":"page"}