{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av06049.htm","path":"hin/av/av06049.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av06049.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1O Agni, in thy body man hath never found a wounded part.\n \u00a0\u00a0The Ape devours the arrow's shaft as a cow eats her after-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0birth.\n 2Thou like a fleece contractest and expandest thee what time the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0upper stone and that below devour.\n \u00a0\u00a0Closely compressing head with head and breast with breast he\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0crunches up the tendrils with his yellow jaws.\n 3The Eagles have sent forth their voice aloud to heaven: in the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0sky's vault the dark impetuous ones have danced.\n \u00a0\u00a0When they come downward to repair the lower stone, they,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0dwellers with the Sun, have gained abundant seed.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 6: Hymn 49: In praise of Agni","type":"page"}