{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av07018.htm","path":"hin/av/av07018.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av07018.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Burst open, Prithvi, and cleave asunder this celestial cloud.\n \u00a0\u00a0Untie, O Dh\u0101tar\u2014for thou canst\u2014the bottle of the breast of\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0heaven.\n 2Let not the Sun's heat burn, nor cold destroy her. Let Earth\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0with all her quickening drops burst open.\n \u00a0\u00a0Even for her the waters flow, and fatness: where Soma is even\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0there is bliss for ever.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 7: Hymn 18: A prayer for rain","type":"page"}