{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av07048.htm","path":"hin/av/av07048.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av07048.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1I call on R\u0101k\u0101 with hair laud and reverent cry: may she,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0auspicious, hear us and herself observe.\n \u00a0\u00a0With never-breaking needle may she sew her work, and send a\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0glorious man who gives a hundred gifts.\n 2All thy kind favours, R\u0101k\u0101! lovely in their form, wherewith\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thou grantest treasures to the man who gives,\n \u00a0\u00a0With these come thou to us this day benevolent, O blessed one,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0bestowing wealth of thousand sorts.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 7: Hymn 48: A prayer for prosperity and the birth of a son","type":"page"}