{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av04038.htm","path":"hin/av/av04038.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av04038.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Hither I call the Apsaras, victorious, who plays with skill,\n \u00a0\u00a0Her who comes freely fort to view, who wins the stakes in games\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0of dice.\n 2Hither I call that Apsaras who scatters and who gathers up. p. a149\n \u00a0\u00a0The Apsaras who plays with skill and takes her winnings in the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0game.\n 3Dancing around us with the dice, winning the wager by her\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0play.\n \u00a0\u00a0May she obtain the stake for us and gain the victory with skill.\n \u00a0\u00a0May she approach us full of strength: let them not win this\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0wealth of ours.\n 4Hither I call that Apsaras, the joyous, the delightful one\u2014\n \u00a0\u00a0Those nymphs who revel in the dice, who suffer grief and yield\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0to wrath.\n 5Who follow in their course the rays of S\u016brya, or as a particle of\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0light attend him.\n \u00a0\u00a0Whose leader from afar, with store of riches, compasses quickly\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0all the worlds and guards them.\n \u00a0\u00a0Pleased, may he come to this our burnt oblation, together with\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the Air, enriched with treasure.\n 6Together with the Air, O rich in treasure, guard here the white\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0cow and the calf, O mighty!\n \u00a0\u00a0Here are abundant drops for thee, come hither! Here is thy\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0white calf, let thy mind be with us.\n 7Together with the Air, O rich in treasure, keep the white calf in\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0safety here, O mighty!\n \u00a0\u00a0Here is the grass, here is the stall, here do we bind the calf. We\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0are your masters, name by name. All Hail!","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 4: Hymn 38: A charm for success in gam...","type":"page"}