{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av07095.htm","path":"hin/av/av07095.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av07095.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1To heaven, as 'twere, have soared this man's two vultures,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0staggering, dusky hued.\n \u00a0\u00a0The Parcher and the Drier-up, the pair who parch and dry his\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0heart.\n 2I verily have stirred them up like oxen resting after toil.\n \u00a0\u00a0Like two loud-snarling curs, or like two wolves who watch to\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0make their spring:\n 3Like two that thrust, like two that pierce, like two that strike\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0with mutual blows.\n \u00a0\u00a0I bind the conduit of the man or dame who hence hath taken\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0aught.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 7: Hymn 95: An incantation against an undetected thief","type":"page"}