{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av03024.htm","path":"hin/av/av03024.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av03024.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1The plants of earth are rich in milk, and rich in milk is this\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0my word,\n \u00a0\u00a0So from the rich in milk I bring thousandfold profit hitherward.\n 2Him who is rich in milk I know. Abundant hath he made our\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0corn.\n \u00a0\u00a0The God whose name is Gatherer, him we invoke who dwelleth\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0in his house who sacrifices not.\n 3All the five regions of the heavens, all the five races of man-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0kind,\n \u00a0\u00a0As after rain the stream brings drift, let them bring increase\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0hitherward.\n 4Open the well with hundred streams, exhaustless, with a thousand\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0streams.\n \u00a0\u00a0So cause this corn of ours to be exhaustless, with a thousand\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0streams.\n 5O Hundred-handed, gather up. O Thousand-handed, pour thou\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0forth.\n \u00a0\u00a0Bring hither increase of the corn prepared and yet to be pre-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0pared.\n 6Three sheaves are the Gandharvas' claim, the lady of the house\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0hath four.\n \u00a0\u00a0We touch thee with the sheaf that is the most abundant of them\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0all.\n 7Adding and Gathering are thy two attendants, O Praj\u0101pati.\n \u00a0\u00a0May they bring hither increase, wealth abundant, inexhaustible.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 3: Hymn 24: A song of harvest","type":"page"}