{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av10009.htm","path":"hin/av/av10009.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av10009.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Binding the mouths of those who threaten mischief, against my\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0rivals cast this bolt of thunder,\n \u00a0\u00a0Indra first gave the Hundredfold Oblation, welfare of him who\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0worships, foe-destroying.\n 2Thy skin shall be the Altar; let thine hair become the Sacred\n \u00a0\u00a0Grass.\n \u00a0\u00a0This cord hath held thee firmly: let this pressing-stone dance\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0round on thee:\n 3The holy water be thy hair: let thy tongue make thee clean, O\n \u00a0\u00a0Cow.\n \u00a0\u00a0Go, Hundredfold Oblation, made bright and adorable, to hea-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ven. p. 34\n 4He who prepares the Hundredfold Oblation gains each wish\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thereby:\n \u00a0\u00a0For all his ministering priests, contented, move as fitteth them.\n 5He rises up to heaven, ascends to younder third celestial\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0height.\n \u00a0\u00a0Whoever gives the Hundredfold Oblation with the central\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0cake.\n 6That man completely wins those worlds, both of the heavens\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and of the earth,\n \u00a0\u00a0Whoever pays the Hundredfold. Oblation with its golden light.\n 7Thine Immolators, Goddess! and the men who dress thee for\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the feast, all these will guard thee, Hundredfold Oblation!\n \u00a0\u00a0Have no fear of them.\n 8The Vasus from the South will be thy guards, the Maruts from\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the North,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u0100dityas from the West; o'ertake and pass the Agnishtoma,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thou!\n 9The Gods, the Fathers, mortal men, Gandharvas, and Apsara-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ses,\n \u00a0\u00a0All these will be the guards: o'ertake and pass the Atir\u0101tra,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thou!\n 10The man who pays the Hundredfold Oblation winneth all the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0worlds,\n \u00a0\u00a0Air, heaven, and earth, \u0100dityas, and Maruts, and regions of the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0sky.\n 11Sprinkling down fatness, to the Gods will the beneficent God-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0dess go.\n \u00a0\u00a0Harm not thy dresser, Cow! To heaven, O Hundredfold Obla-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0tion, speed!\n 12From all the Gods enthroned in heaven, in air, from those who\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0dwell on earth,\n \u00a0\u00a0Draw forth for evermore a stream of milk, of butter, and of\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0mead.\n 13Let thy head, let thy mouth, let both thine ears, and those two\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0jaws of thine.\n \u00a0\u00a0Pour for the giver mingled curd, and flowing butter, milk, and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0mead.\n 14Let both thy lips, thy nostrils, both thy horns, and these two\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0eyes of thine. p. 35\n \u00a0\u00a0Pour for the given, etc.\n 15Let heart and pericardium, let thy lungs with all the bronchial\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0tubes, etc.\n 16Let liver, and let kidneys, let thine entrails, and the parts within,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0etc.\n 17Let rectum and omentum, let thy belly's hollows, and thy skin,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0etc.\n 18Let all thy marrow, every bone, let all thy flesh, and all thy\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0blood, etc.\n 19Let both thy shoulders and thy hump, thy forelegs, and their\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0lower parts, etc.\n 20Let neck and nape and shoulder-joints, thy ribs and inter-costal\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0parts, etc.\n 21So let thy thighs and thy knee-bones, thy hinder quarters, and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thy hips, etc.\n 22So let thy tail and all the hairs thereof, thine udder, and thy\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0teats, etc.\n 23Let all thy legs, the refuse of thy feet, thy heelropes, and thy\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0hooves.\n \u00a0\u00a0Pour for the giver mingled curd, and flowing butter milk, and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0mead.\n 24Let all thy skin, Sataudan\u0101! let every hair thou hast, O Cow,\n \u00a0\u00a0Pour for the giver mingled curd, and flowing butter, milk, and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0mead.\n 25Sprinkled with molten butter, let the two meal-cakes be sport\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0for thee.\n \u00a0\u00a0Make them thy wings, O Goddess, and bear him who dresses\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thee to heaven.\n 26Each grain of rice in mortar or on pestle, all on the skin or in\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the winnowing-basket,\n \u00a0\u00a0Whatever purifying M\u0101tarisvan, the Wind, hath sifted, let the\n \u00a0\u00a0Hotar Agni make of it an acceptable oblation.\n 27In the priest's hands I lay, in separate order, the sweet celestial\n \u00a0\u00a0Waters, dropping fatness.\n \u00a0\u00a0As here I sprinkle them may all my wishes be granted unto me\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0in perfect fulness. May we have ample wealth in our posses-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0sion.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 10: Hymn 9: The Sataudan\u0101 or Hund...","type":"page"}