{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av02036.htm","path":"hin/av/av02036.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av02036.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1To please us may the suitor come, O Agni, seeking this maid and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0bringing us good fortune.\n \u00a0\u00a0Approved by wooers, lovely in assemblies, may she be soon\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0made happy with a husband.\n 2As bliss beloved by Soma, dear to Prayer, and stored by Arya-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0man,\n \u00a0\u00a0With the God Dh\u0101tar's truthfulness I work the bridal oracle.\n 3O Agni, may this woman find a husband. Then verily King Soma\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0makes her happy.\n \u00a0\u00a0May she bear sons, chief lady of the household, blessed and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0bearing rule beside her consort.\n 4As this lair, Maghavan! that is fair to look on was dear to wild\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0things as a pleasant dwelling,\n \u00a0\u00a0So may this woman here be Bhaga's darling. Loved by her lord\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and prizing his affection. p. a64\n 5Mount up, embark on Bhaga's ship, the full, the inexhaustible,\n \u00a0\u00a0Thereon bring hitherward to us the lover whom thou fain\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0wouldst wed.\n 6Call out to him, O Lord of Wealth! Make thou the lover well-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0inclined.\n \u00a0\u00a0Set each on thy right hand who is a lover worthy of her choice.\n 7Here is the Bdellium and the gold, the Auksha and the bliss are\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0here:\n \u00a0\u00a0These bring thee to the husbands, so to find the man whom thou.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0wouldst have.\n 8May Savitar lead and bring to thee the husband whom thy heart\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0desires.\n \u00a0\u00a0O Plant, be this thy gift to her!","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 2: Hymn 36: A charm to secure a husband for a marriageable girl","type":"page"}