{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av20048.htm","path":"hin/av/av20048.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av20048.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1The swiftly-moving songs of praise pour on thee streams of vital\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0strength\n \u00a0\u00a0As mother cows refresh the calf.\n 2Swift move the bright ones while they blend the Milk with vital\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0vigour, as\n \u00a0\u00a0A dame her infant with her heart.\n 3Fair hymns bring glory to the Strong, and Indra-vigour; unto,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0me\n \u00a0\u00a0Fatness and milk and length of days.\n 4This brindled Bull hath come and sat before the Mother in the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0east,\n \u00a0\u00a0Advancing to the Father Heaven.\n 5As expiration from breath she moves along the lucid spheres:\n \u00a0\u00a0The Bull shines forth through all the sky.\n 6Song is bestowed upon the Bird. It reigns supreme throughout\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thirty realms\n \u00a0\u00a0Throughout the days at break of morn.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 20: Hymn 48","type":"page"}