{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av20131.htm","path":"hin/av/av20131.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av20131.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1He minishes, he splits in twain: crush it and let it be\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0destroyed. p. 369\n 3, 4Varuna with the Vasus goes: the Wind-God hath a hundred\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0reins.\n 5, 6A hundred golden steeds hath he, a hundred chariots\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0wrought of gold.\n 7, 8A hundred bits of golden bronze, a hundred golden\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0necklaces.\n 9, 10Lover of Kusa grass, Unploughed! Fat is not reckoned in\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the hoof.\n 11, 12The ladle doth not hold apart the entrails and the clotted\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0blood.\n 13, 14This O Mand\u016brik\u0101, is mine. Thy trees are standing in a\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0clump.\n 15, 16The plain domestic sacrifice, the sacrifice with burning\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0dung.\n 17, 18Asvattha, Dhava, Khadira, leaf taken from the Aratu.\n 19, 20The man pervaded thoroughly lies on the ground as he were\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0slain.\n 21, 22The biestings only have they milked: one-and-a half of the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0wild ass,\n 23And two hides of an elephant.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 20: Hymn 131","type":"page"}