{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av04012.htm","path":"hin/av/av04012.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av04012.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Thou art the healer, making whole, the healer of the broken\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0bone:\n \u00a0\u00a0Make thou this whole, Arundhat\u012b!\n 2Whatever bone of thine within thy body hath been wrenched or\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0cracked,\n \u00a0\u00a0May Dh\u0101tar set it properly and join together limb by limb.\n 3With marrow be the marrow joined, thy limb united with the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0limb.\n \u00a0\u00a0Let what hath fallen of thy flesh, and the bone also grow again.\n 4Let marrow close with marrow, let skin grow united with the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0skin.\n \u00a0\u00a0Let blood and bone grow strong in thee, flesh grow together\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0with the flesh.\n 5Join thou together hair with hair, join thou together skin with\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0skin.\n \u00a0\u00a0Let blood and bone grow strong in thee. Unite the broken part,.\n \u00a0\u00a0O Plant.\n 6Arise, advance, speed forth; the car hath goodly fellies, naves,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and wheels!!\n \u00a0\u00a0Stand up erect upon thy feet.\n 7If he be torn and shattered, having fallen into a pit, or a cast\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0stone have struck him,\n \u00a0\u00a0Let the skilled leech join limb with limb, as 'twere the portions\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0of a car.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 4: Hymn 12: A charm to mend a broken bone","type":"page"}