{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av06139.htm","path":"hin/av/av06139.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av06139.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Thou hast grown up, a source of joy to bless me with pros-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0perity.\n \u00a0\u00a0A hundred are thy tendrils, three-and-thirty thy descending\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0shoots.\n \u00a0\u00a0With this that bears a thousand leaves I dry thy heart and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0wither it.\n 2Let thy heart wither for my love and let thy month be dry for\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0me.\n \u00a0\u00a0Parch and dry up with longing, go with lips that love of me\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0hath dried.\n 3Drive us together, tawny! fair! a go-between who wakens\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0love.\n \u00a0\u00a0Drive us together, him and me, and give us both one heart and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0mind.\n 4Even as his mouth is parched who finds no water for his burn-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ing thirst,\n \u00a0\u00a0So parch and burn with longing, go with lips that love of me\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0hath dried.\n 5Even as the Mungoose bites and rends and then restores the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0wounded snake,\n \u00a0\u00a0So do thou, Mighty one, restore the fracture of our severed\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0love.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 6: Hymn 139: A woman's love-charm","type":"page"}