{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av06070.htm","path":"hin/av/av06070.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av06070.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1As wine associates with flesh, as dice attend the gaming-board,\n \u00a0\u00a0As an enamoured man's desire is firmly set upon a dame,\n \u00a0\u00a0So let thy heart and soul, O Cow, be firmly set upou thy calf.\n 2As the male elephant pursues with eager step his female's track,\n \u00a0\u00a0As an enamoured man's desire is firmly set upon a dame,\n \u00a0\u00a0So let thy heart and soul, O Cow, be firmly set upon the calf.\n 3Close as the felly and the spoke, fixt as the wheel-rim on the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0nave,\n \u00a0\u00a0As an enamoured man's desire is firmly set upon a dame,\n \u00a0\u00a0So let thy heart and soul, O Cow, be firmly set upon thy calf.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 6: Hymn 70: A benediction on cow and calf","type":"page"}