{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av06140.htm","path":"hin/av/av06140.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av06140.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Two tigers have grown up who long to eat the mother and the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0sire:\n \u00a0\u00a0Soothe, Br\u0101hmanaspati, and thou, O J\u0101tavedas, both these\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0teeth.\n 2Let rice and barley be your food, eat also beans and sesamum.\n \u00a0\u00a0This is the share allotted you, to be your portion, ye two Teeth.\n \u00a0\u00a0Harm not your mother and your sire.\n 3Both fellow teeth have been invoked, gentle and bringing happi-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ness.\n \u00a0\u00a0Else whither let the fierceness of your nature turn away, O\n \u00a0\u00a0Teeth! Harm not your mother or your sire.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 6: Hymn 140: A blessing on a child's first two teeth","type":"page"}