{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av01002.htm","path":"hin/av/av01002.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av01002.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1We know the father of the shaft, Parjanya, liberal nourisher,\n \u00a0\u00a0Know well his mother: Prithiv\u012b, Earth with her manifold\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0designs.\n 2Do thou, O Bowstring, bend thyself around us: make my body\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0stone.\n \u00a0\u00a0Firm in thy strength drive far away malignities and hateful\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0things.\n 3When, closely clinging round the wood, the bowstring sings\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0triumph to the swift and whizzing arrow,\n \u00a0\u00a0Indra, ward off from us the shaft, the missile.\n 4As in its flight the arrow's point hangs between earth and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0firmament,\n \u00a0\u00a0So stand this Munja grass between ailment and dysenteric ill!","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 1: Hymn 2: A charm against dysentery","type":"page"}