{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av05005.htm","path":"hin/av/av05005.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av05005.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Aryaman is thy grandsire, Night thy mother, and the Cloud thy\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0sire.\n \u00a0\u00a0Thy name is called Sil\u0101chi. Thou, thyself, art sister of the Gods.\n 2Whoever drinketh thee hath life: thou savest and protectest\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0man.\n \u00a0\u00a0As nursing mother of mankind, thou takest all upon thy lap.\n 3Thou clingest close to every tree, as a fond damsel clasps her\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0love. p. a160\n \u00a0\u00a0Thy name is called The Conqueror, She who Stands Fast, The\n \u00a0\u00a0Rescuer.\n 4Whatever wound the arrow, or the staff, or violence inflicts,\n \u00a0\u00a0Thereof thou art the remedy: as such restore this man to health.\n 5Thou springest from blest Plaxa, or Asvattha, Dhava, Khadira,\n \u00a0\u00a0Parna, or blest Nyagrodha, so come thou to use, Arundhat\u012b!\n 6Gold-coloured, bringing happy fate, most lovely, brilliant as the\n \u00a0\u00a0Sun,\n \u00a0\u00a0Mayst thou, O Healing! come unto the fracture: Healing is thy\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0name.\n 7Gold-coloured, bringing happy fate, odorous, hairy-bodied one,\n \u00a0\u00a0The sister of the Waters art thou, L\u0101ksh\u0101! and thy soul is Wind.\n 8Sil\u0101chi is thy name: thy sire, O goat-brown! is a damsel's son.\n \u00a0\u00a0Thou hast been sprinkled by the mouth of Yama's tawny-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0coloured horse.\n 9Issuing from the horse's blood away she glided to the trees.\n \u00a0\u00a0Become a winged water-brook, and come to us, Arundhat\u012b!","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 5: Hymn 5: A charm to mend a broken bone","type":"page"}