Let them protect you, let them guard you! To them be homage, to them be all hail!
Atharva Veda VIII, 1, 14
May the Lord of the Wind, the Sky, the Creator, the saving Sun, restore you to communion with the living! Let not your breath or your strength forsake you! It is for your sake that we call back your life!
Atharva Veda VIII, 1, 15
Let not the friend of the snapping jaws find you, or darkness, or the tongue of the demon! Shall you be subject to Death? No, never! May all the powers raise you up, may the Lord of the sky and of Fire raise you up to well-being!
Atharva Veda VIII, 1, 16
Heaven and Earth and the Lord of creation have raised you up! The plants and the herbs, with the heavenly Drink, have saved you from Death!
Atharva Veda VIII, 1, 17
Water when drunk becomes threefold. What is coarsest in it becomes urine, what is medium becomes blood and what is subtlest becomes prana.
Sama Veda, Chandogya Upanishad VI, V – The Threefold Nature of Food, 2
