{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av06050.htm","path":"hin/av/av06050.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av06050.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Destroy the rat, the mole, the boring beetle, cut off their heads\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and crush their ribs, O Asvins.\n \u00a0\u00a0Bind fast their mouths; let them not eat our barley: so guard,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ye twain, our growing corn from danger.\n 2Ho! boring beetle, ho! thou worm, ho! noxious grub and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0grasshopper!\n \u00a0\u00a0As a priest leaves the unfinished sacrifice, go hence devouring\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0not, injuring not this corn.\n 3Hearken to me, lord of the female borer, lord of the female\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0grub! ye rough-toothed vermin!\n \u00a0\u00a0Whate'er ye be, dwelling in woods, and piercing, we crush and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0mangle all those piercing insects.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 6: Hymn 50: A charm for the destructio...","type":"page"}