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Atharva Veda 6.118: A prayer for pardon of cheating at play
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1895–96) · From The Hymns of the Atharva-Veda (1895–96)
If we have sinned with both our hands, desiring to take the host of dice for our possession, May both Apsarases to-day forgive us that debt, the fiercely-conquering, fiercely-looking.
Stern viewers of their sins who rule the people, forgive us what hash happened as we gambled.
Not urging us to pay the debt we owed him, he with a cord hath gone to Yama's kingdom.
My creditor, the man whose wife I visit, he, Gods! whom I approach with supplication, Let not these men dominate me in speaking. Mind this, ye two Apsarases, Gods' Consorts!
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Veda, The Rishis of the Atharva. “Atharva Veda 6.118: A prayer for pardon of cheating at play.” Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/atharvaveda-rishis/280/.
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Veda, The Rishis of the Atharva. “Atharva Veda 6.118: A prayer for pardon of cheating at play.” Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/atharvaveda-rishis/280/.
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