Book 1: Hymn 31: A prayer for protection and general prosperity

HYMN XXXI

A prayer for protection and general prosperity

1Here will we serve with sacrifice the great Controllers of the
world,
The four immortal Warders who protect the regions of the sky.
2Ye, Guardians of the regions, Gods who keep the quarters of
the heavens,
Rescue and free us from the bonds of Nirriti, from grief and
woe!
3I, free from stiffness, serve thee with oblation, not lame I sacri-
fice with oil and fatness.
Let the strong Warder God, who keeps the regions bring to us
hither safety and well-being.
4Well be it with our mother and our father, well be it with our
cows, and beasts, and people.
Ours be all happy fortune, grace, and favour. Long, very long
may we behold the sunlight.