Atharva Veda · 79 of 724

HYMN XII

A benediction on a newly built house 1. Here, even here I fix my firm-set dwelling; flowing with fatness    may it stand in safety.   May we approach thee, House! with all our people, uncharmed    and goodly men, and dwell within thee, 2. Even here, O House, stand thou on firm foundation, wealthy in    horses, rich in kine and gladness.   Wealthy in nourishment. in milk and fatness, rise up for great    felicity and fortune. 3. A spacious store, O House, art thou, full of clean corn and    lofty-roofed.   Let the young calf and little boy approach thee, and milch-kine    streaming homeward in the evening. 4. This House may Savitar and Vāyu stablish, Brihaspati who    knows the way, and Indra.   May the moist Maruts sprinkle it with fatness, and may King   Bhaga make our corn-land fruitful. 5. Queen of the home! thou, sheltering, kindly Goddess, wast sta-    blished by the Gods in the beginning.   Clad in thy robe of grass be friendly-minded, and give us wealth    with goodly men about us. 6. Thou Pole, in ordered fashion mount the pillar. Strong, shining    forth afar, keep off our foemen.   House! let not those who dwell within thee suffer. Live we with    all our men, a hundred autumns. 7. To this the tender boy hath come, to this the calf with all the    beasts,   To this crock of foaming drink, hither with jars of curdled    milk. 8. Bring hitherward, O dame, the well-filled pitcher, the stream    of molten butter blent with nectar.   Bedew these drinkers with a draught of Amrit.   May all our hopes’ fulfilment guard this dwelling. 9. Water that kills Consumption, free from all Consumption, here   I bring.   With Agni, the immortal one, I enter and possess the house.