{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av03017.htm","path":"hin/av/av03017.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av03017.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Wise and devoted to the Gods the skilful men bind plough-ropes\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0fast, p. a86\n \u00a0\u00a0And lay the yokes on either side.\n 2Lay on the yokes and fasten well the traces: formed is the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0furrow, sow the seed within it.\n \u00a0\u00a0Vir\u0101j vouchsafe us hearing fraught with plenty!\n \u00a0\u00a0Let the ripe grain come near and near the sickle.\n 3The keen-shared plough that bringeth bliss, furnished with traces\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and with stilts,\n \u00a0\u00a0Shear out for me a cow, a sheep, a rapid drawer of the car, a\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0blooming woman, plump and strong!\n 4May Indra press the furrow down, may P\u016bshan guard and cherish\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0her.\n \u00a0\u00a0May she, well stored with milk yield milk for us through each\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0succeeding year.\n 5Happily let the shares turn up the ploughland, the ploughers\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0happily follow the oxen.\n \u00a0\u00a0Pleased with our sacrifice, Suna and Sira! make the plants bring\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0this man abundant produce.\n 6Happily work our steers and men! May the plough furrow\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0happily,\n \u00a0\u00a0Happily be the traces bound. Happily ply the driving-goad.\n 7Suna and Sira, welcome ye this laud, and with the milk that ye\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0have made in heaven,\n \u00a0\u00a0Bedew ye both this earth of ours.\n 8Auspicious Sit\u0101, come thou near: we venerate and worship thee.\n \u00a0\u00a0That thou mayst bless and prosper us and bring us fruits\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0abundantly.\n 9Loved by the Visvedevas and the Maruts, let Sit\u0101 be bedewed.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0with oil and honey.\n \u00a0\u00a0Turn thou to us with wealth of milk, O Sit\u0101, in vigorous\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0strength and pouring streams of fatness.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 3: Hymn 17: A farmer's song and prayer to speed the plough","type":"page"}