{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av01012.htm","path":"hin/av/av01012.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av01012.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Born from the womb, brought forth from wind and from the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0cloud, the first red bull comes onward thundering with the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0rain.\n \u00a0\u00a0Our bodies may he spare who, cleaving, goes straight on; he who,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0a single force, divides himself in three.\n 2Bending to thee who clingest to each limb with heat, fain would\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0we worship thee with offered sacrifice,\n \u00a0\u00a0Worship with sacrifice the bends and curves of thee who with a\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0vigorous grasp hast seized on this one's limbs.\n 3Do thou release this man from headache, free him from cough\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0which has entered into all his limbs and joints.\n \u00a0\u00a0May he, the child of cloud, the offspring of the wind, the whiz-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0zing lighting, strike the mountains and the trees.\n 4Well be it with my upper frame, well be it with my lower parts.\n \u00a0\u00a0With my four limbs let it be well. Let all my body be in health.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 1: Hymn 12: A prayer to Lightning, aga...","type":"page"}