A prayer for pardon of cheating at play
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Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895], at sacred-texts.com
HYMN CXVIII
A prayer for pardon of cheating at play
1If 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.
2Stern 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.
3My 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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