{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av01003.htm","path":"hin/av/av01003.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av01003.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1We know the father of the shaft, Parjanya strong with hundred\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0powers:\n \u00a0\u00a0By this may I bring health unto thy body: let the channels pour\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0their burthen freely as of old.\n 2We know the father of the shaft, Mitra, the Lord of hundred\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0powers:\n \u00a0\u00a0By this, etc.\n 3We know the father of the shaft, Varuna, strong with hundred\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0powers: p. a4\n \u00a0\u00a0By this, etc.\n 4We know the father of the shaft, the Moon endowed with\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0hundred powers:\n \u00a0\u00a0By this, etc.\n 5We know the father of the shaft, the Sun endowed with hundred\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0powers:\n \u00a0\u00a0By this may I bring health unto thy body: let the channels pour\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0their burthen freely as of old.\n 6Whate'er hath gathered, as it flowed, in bowels, bladder, or in\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0groins,\n \u00a0\u00a0Thus let the conduit, free from check, pour all its burthen as of\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0old.\n 7I lay the passage open as one cleaves the dam that bars the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0lake:\n \u00a0\u00a0Thus let, etc.\n 8Now hath the portal been unclosed as, of the sea that holds the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0flood:\n \u00a0\u00a0Thus let, etc.\n 9Even as the arrow flies away when loosened from the archer's\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0bow,\n \u00a0\u00a0Thus let the burthen be discharged from channels that are checked\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0no more.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 1: Hymn 3: A charm against constipation and suppression of urine","type":"page"}