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Atharva Veda 19.27A benedictory hymn
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Hinduism · Vedas · Atharva Veda
Atharva Veda 19.27
A benedictory hymn
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Let the Bull guard thee with the kine, the Stallien with the fleet-foot steeds. Let Vāyu keep thee safe with prayer, and Indra with his mighty power.
Let Soma guard thee with the plants, Sūrya protect thee with the stars; With breath let Wind protect thee, and the Moon, foe-slayer, with the months.
Three are the earths, they say, and three the heavens, three are the atmospheres, and four the oceans. Threefold the hymn of praise, threefold the Waters. Let these with triple song and triplets guard thee.
Three vaults of heaven, and three seas, three bright, three stationary ones, Three Mātarisvans, and three suns, protectors, I arrange for thee.
Increasing thee with butter I, Agni! with fatness sprinkle thee. Let not magicians harm the life of Agni or of Moon or Sun.
Let not magicians mar your heat, your vital or diffusive breath. Brilliant and all-possessing Gods, run ye your course with God-like power.
Fire they endow with vital breath, Wind is compact, with vital breath: With vital breath the Gods produced the Sun whose face turn every way.
Live with the Life-Creators' life. Die not, live on to lengthened age. Live with the breath of men with souls. Submit not to the power of Death.
The secret treasure of the Gods which Indra, by pathways travelled by the Gods, discovered, That gold the Waters with the triplets guarded. May they keep thee with threebold hymn and triplets.
With friendly thoughts the Deities, three-and thirty, and three great Powers preserved it in the Waters. He made heroic powers with the gold that lies upon this Moon.
O ye eleven Gods who are in heaven, accept this sacrifice.
O ye eleven Gods who are in air, accept this sacrifice.
O ye eleven Gods who are on earth, accept this sacrifice.
