{"collection":"Hinduism","page":1,"pages":[{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_bain_03htd_index_htm","collection":"Hinduism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_bain_03htd_index_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Sacred Texts\u00a0\n Hinduism\u00a0\n F.W. Bain\u00a0\n \n \n A Heifer of the Dawn\n By F.W. Bain\n [1904]\n \n Title Page\n Preface\n Contents\n A Political Alliance\n \n \n The Wax of a New Moon\n Mango\n P\u00e1tal\u00ed\n Jasmine\n A Flowerless Dawn\n Champak\n Lotus\n Shr\u00edphala\n Shir\u00edrsha\n Kadamba\n Amaranth\n Ash\u00f3ka\n Pal\u00e1sha\n Sham\u00ed","title":"A Heifer of the Sun Index","word_count":42},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_bain_03htd_htd03_htm","collection":"Hinduism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_bain_03htd_htd03_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Salutation to the great Third eye of the Master of all Emotion: that eye, which could wither the God of Love with shooting flames, and yet open, to her confusion, with the tenderness of a flower on the bashful P\u00e1rwat\u00ed, as she was endeavouring to rob him of the sight of her own beauty by placing her hands over the other two a! THERE lived formerly, in another kalpa, a stupid king, who possessed two things, that like the edge of a sword kept him from sleeping: a brave enemy and a beautiful\u2026","title":"A Heifer of the Sun: A Political Alliance","word_count":2114},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_bain_03htd_htd02_htm","collection":"Hinduism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_bain_03htd_htd02_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"","title":"A Heifer of the Sun: Contents","word_count":137},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_bain_03htd_htd01_htm","collection":"Hinduism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_bain_03htd_htd01_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"ALL SWEETNESS, says the Rig Weda, IS COLLECTED IN THE HEIFER a: the Red One of the Dawn. And the Oriental use of the word, heifer, to signify a wife or queen, is familiar to every reader of the Hebrew Bible. If ye had not ploughed with my heifer, said Samson, ye had not found out my riddle.","title":"A Heifer of the Sun: Preface","word_count":800},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_bain_03htd_htd07_htm","collection":"Hinduism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_bain_03htd_htd07_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"THEN he tossed all night upon his bed of leaves, and in the morning he rose, and went out upon the steps, and stood on the edge of the pool, listening to the birds in the trees beginning to awake, and salute by their songs the advent of the lord of the day. And as he stood, he looked along the edge of the pool, and through the trees, but he saw no ch\u00e9t\u00ed coming towards him, and he remained alone with the pool and its lotuses and the trees. Then after a while he said to himself: Doubtless she has\u2026","title":"A Heifer of the Sun: The Wax of a New Moon: A Flowerless Dawn","word_count":692},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_bain_03htd_htd13_htm","collection":"Hinduism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_bain_03htd_htd13_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"AND all night, he slept with the Kadamba flower on his bed of leaves: and in the morning he went out, and watched the fire-flies on the pool hastening to hide their lamps before they should be shamed by the coming of the Great Lamp of day. And presently the ch\u00e9t\u00ed came towards him, holding in her hand an amaranth s. And she looked like an incarnation of the essence of timidity, blushing at the recollection of the adventure of the day before.","title":"A Heifer of the Sun: The Wax of a New Moon: Amaranth","word_count":787},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_bain_03htd_htd14_htm","collection":"Hinduism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_bain_03htd_htd14_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"THEN all night long, he lay tossing on his bed of leaves. And in the morning he rose before the sun, and went out and stood before the pool, and watched the parrots screaming in the ashwattha tree, with beaks that were tipped with the colour of the dawn: till he saw the ch\u00e9t\u00ed coming towards him with twinkling feet, holding an ash\u00f3ka flower in her hand. And she seemed in his eyes like a draught of the nectar of love longing incarnate in a feminine form x.","title":"A Heifer of the Sun: The Wax of a New Moon: Ash\u00f3ka","word_count":799},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_bain_03htd_htd08_htm","collection":"Hinduism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_bain_03htd_htd08_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"THEN all night long, he tossed on his bed of leaves, and in the morning he arose very early, long before the sun, and went out upon the steps, and stood waiting. And he looked up, and saw in the air high above him a row of swans, flying swiftly to the north, with bodies that gleamed ruddy in the beams of the day-star still hidden behind the eastern mountain. And then at last the sun rose, and at that moment he looked, and\nsaw the ch\u00e9t\u00ed once more coming rapidly towards him.","title":"A Heifer of the Sun: The Wax of a New Moon: Champak","word_count":1329},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_bain_03htd_htd06_htm","collection":"Hinduism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_bain_03htd_htd06_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"THEN he tossed all night on his bed of leaves, and in the morning rose, and went out upon the steps, just as the young sun was flooding with gold\nthe blue floor of the eastern sky. And as he stood watching, suddenly the ch\u00e9t\u00ed came again towards him with twinkling feet, holding a jasmine h blossom in her hand. And as he looked at her, the King was pleased, against his will: for she resembled in her movements an incarnation of the sap of the tree of youth.","title":"A Heifer of the Sun: The Wax of a New Moon: Jasmine","word_count":1057},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_bain_03htd_htd12_htm","collection":"Hinduism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_bain_03htd_htd12_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"AND he lay all night on his bed of leaves, repenting of his doubts: and in the morning he arose before the sun, and went out, and watched the eastern sky changing colour like an opal as the night drove away before the dawn: but the ch\u00e9t\u00ed never came. And as the day grew older, the King grew paler, for he said: Can it be that she means to leave me another day alone? And then at last, when the sun was already high in the heaven, he looked, and saw her coming slowly towards him, with a purple\u2026","title":"A Heifer of the Sun: The Wax of a New Moon: Kadamba","word_count":939},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_bain_03htd_htd09_htm","collection":"Hinduism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_bain_03htd_htd09_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"THEN all night long, he slept profoundly on his bed of leaves, and rose only when the sun had arisen. And when he went out, he found the ch\u00e9t\u00ed standing waiting for him on the edge of the pool, with a red lotus in her hand. And she seemed in his eyes like the peace of his own mind embodied in a visible form.","title":"A Heifer of the Sun: The Wax of a New Moon: Lotus","word_count":791},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_bain_03htd_htd04_htm","collection":"Hinduism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_bain_03htd_htd04_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"THEN in the early morning, on the first day of the light fortnight, the young King arose before the sun, and went out of the temple, and wandered on the steps that went down into the pool, in which all the lotuses were preparing to welcome their lover, as he rose from behind the eastern mountain. And as he looked through the trees, suddenly he saw coming towards him with twinkling feet along the edge of the pool, a ch\u00e9t\u00ed a, resembling an incarnation of the night of new moon, for like it, she\u2026","title":"A Heifer of the Sun: The Wax of a New Moon: Mango","word_count":948},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_bain_03htd_htd15_htm","collection":"Hinduism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_bain_03htd_htd15_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"AND he lay all night, tossing on his bed of leaves . and in the morning, he arose before the sun, and stood sadly, plunged in meditation, like a crane, on the edge of the pool. And he never noticed how the ch\u00e9t\u00ed came towards him, till he looked up, and saw her standing beside him, with a red Pal\u00e1sha flower in her hand.","title":"A Heifer of the Sun: The Wax of a New Moon: Pal\u00e1sha","word_count":923},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_bain_03htd_htd05_htm","collection":"Hinduism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_bain_03htd_htd05_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"THEN he tossed all night on his bed of leaves, and rose before the sun, and went out and stood on the steps of the pool, watching the images of the last stars paling in the mirror of its water before the advent of the day. And he looked and to! out of the trees again the ch\u00e9t\u00ed came towards him with twinkling feet, holding a trumpet-flower c in her hand.","title":"A Heifer of the Sun: The Wax of a New Moon: P\u00e1tal\u00ed","word_count":998},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_bain_03htd_htd16_htm","collection":"Hinduism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_bain_03htd_htd16_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"AND he lay all night, tossing on his bed of leaves: and in the morning, he rose before the sun, and went out. And as he stood watching the fish, raising their silver heads from the water to nibble the lotus stalks, he saw the ch\u00e9t\u00ed coming towards him, with a yellow flower of the sham\u00ed in her hand: and she resembled the very creeper itself, gifted with the power of motion. Then she came up to the King, and said: O King, my mistress sends her lord, by these unworthy hands, a flower, and if his\u2026","title":"A Heifer of the Sun: The Wax of a New Moon: Sham\u00ed","word_count":3330},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_bain_03htd_htd11_htm","collection":"Hinduism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_bain_03htd_htd11_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"AND they hovered before him, as he slept all night on his bed of leaves, and in the morning he rose before the sun, and went out and stood on the brink of the pool. And as he gazed at its surface, which was dotted with lotuses like a panther's skin, there entered into his heart a doubt, like the shadow of the bats that were taking their last flight over the water before the dawn. And he said to himself: O, she is beautiful, but alas!","title":"A Heifer of the Sun: The Wax of a New Moon: Shir\u00edrsha","word_count":772},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_bain_03htd_htd10_htm","collection":"Hinduism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_bain_03htd_htd10_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"THEN he dreamed of Madhupamanjar\u00ed, all night long, and in the morning he rose before the sun, and went out. And as he stood listening to the joyous cries of the chakraw\u00e1ka and his mate, meeting in the morning after a night of separation, the ch\u00e9t\u00ed came towards him through the trees, holding in her hand berries of the shr\u00edphala. And she said: My mistress sends her lord, by these unworthy\nhands, berries, and if he has enjoyed sweet sleep, it is well with her.","title":"A Heifer of the Sun: The Wax of a New Moon: Shr\u00edphala","word_count":751},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_bain_03htd_htd00_htm","collection":"Hinduism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_bain_03htd_htd00_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"'Lo! how Dark Night shrinks from her sister Dawn, and gloomy Black gives way to Rosy Red'--Rig Weda, vii. 71\n \nClick to enlarge\nFrontispiece\n(Volume 3 in Bain's Indian Stories)\nNOTICE OF ATTRIBUTION.","title":"A Heifer of the Sun: Title Page","word_count":243},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_vedaread_htm","collection":"Hinduism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_vedaread_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"This is a scholarly introduction to the Rigveda, the oldest surviving text in any Indo-European language, situated within the tradition of 19th/early-20th century Western Indology and philology. The author argues for a conservative dating of the hymns to approximately 1300 B.C., rejecting astronomical calculations that would push them to 3000\u20136000 B.C. as speculative, and instead anchoring the date through the Rigveda's close linguistic relationship to the Avestan texts and the 1400 B.C. Mitanni inscription that names Vedic deities. The text then describes the hymns' religious function \u2014 propitiating nature-deifying gods through fire sacrifice and Soma offerings \u2014 and traces how they were orally preserved by hereditary priestly families before being compiled into the Samhita text around 600 B.C. A notable portion details the Rigveda's internal structure: its 1,028 hymns organized across ten books, six of which are \"family books\" composed by distinct priestly lineages and forming the probable nucleus of the collection, with later books added incrementally and the tenth book identified as the latest on linguistic and thematic grounds. The author's distinctive claim is that the text's transmission fidelity over 2,500 years \u2014 achieved through elaborate recitation schemes and indexing systems \u2014 is unparalleled in any other literary tradition.","title":"A Vedic Reader (Excerpts)","word_count":20171},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_rama_ry502_htm","collection":"Hinduism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_rama_ry502_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"RAVAN DOOMED. SECTION XIII. Afterwards Rishya-shringa said again to the King \"I will perform another sacrificial act to secure thee a son.\" Then the son of Vibhanduka, of subdued passions, seeking the happiness of the king, proceeded to perform the sacrifice for the accomplishment of his wishes.","title":"APPENDICES: Appendices","word_count":29619},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_rama_ry504_htm","collection":"Hinduism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_rama_ry504_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Page Column Line For Read\n \n \n \u00a0 vi 30 an any\n viii 13 that than\n 4 2 14 clain claim\n 14 2 2 from bottom. temper tempter\n 16 1 4 live leave\n 19 1 37 best men best of men\n 30 dele line in middle of first column\n 64 2 10 an and\n 72 1 23 underterred undeterred\n 117 1 41 limps limbs\n 122 1 31 pride of pride or\n 127 2 21 from bottom to the\n 127 2 4 from bottom moutain mountain\n 137 2 21 from bottom born borne\n 158 1 11 from bottom limps limbs\n 174 1 8 cropse corpse\n 188 2 27 Fach Each\n 221 1 14 from\u2026","title":"APPENDICES: Errata","word_count":352},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_rama_ry503_htm","collection":"Hinduism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_rama_ry503_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"","title":"APPENDICES: Index of Principal Names","word_count":3875},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_sbe07_sbe07103_htm","collection":"Hinduism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_sbe07_sbe07103_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"I, 17 (p. 4) read R\u00e2kshasas--I, 22 (p. 5) for bow read shaft--V, 48 (p.","title":"Additions and Corrections","word_count":458},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_gita_agsgita_htm","collection":"Hinduism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_gita_agsgita_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Visit American/International Gita Society Webpage: www.gita-society.com/gita3rd.htm\nFor Gita in Hindi with Sanskrit verses, and comprehensive study of the Gita in English\nLet noble thoughts come to us from everywhere\n---- The Vedas\nINTRODUCTION\nThe Gita is a doctrine of universal truth. Its message is universal, sublime, and non-sectarian although it is a part of the scriptural trinity of Sanaatana Dharma, commonly known as Hinduism. The Gita is very easy to understand in any language for a\u2026","title":"American/International Gita Society Bhagavad Gita","word_count":23293},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_av_index_htm","collection":"Hinduism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_av_index_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"| The Hymns of the Atharvaveda tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith [1895-6] | \nThis is the Ralph T.H.","title":"Atharva Veda Index","word_count":98},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_sbe42_index_htm","collection":"Hinduism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_sbe42_index_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Sacred Texts\u00a0\n Hinduism\u00a0\n \n \n Hymns of the Atharva-Veda\n translated by\n Maurice Bloomfield\n Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 42\n [1897]\n \n \n This, the 42nd volume of the the Sacred Books of the East,\n is an anthology of representative hymns from the Arthrva-veda,\n the fourth Veda. This selection is grouped thematically, so the hymns are not\n in numeric order.","title":"Atharva Veda Index","word_count":2259},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_av_av10010_htm","collection":"Hinduism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_av_av10010_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"1Worship to thee springing to life, and worship unto thee when\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0born! Worship, O Cow, to thy tail-hair, and to thy hooves, and to thy\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0form! 2The man who knows the Seven Floods, who knows the seven\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0distances,\n \u00a0\u00a0Who knows the head of sacrifice, he may receive the holy Cow.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 10: Hymn 10: A glorification of the sacred Cow as representing the radiant heavens","word_count":868},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_av_av10001_htm","collection":"Hinduism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_av_av10001_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"1Afar let her depart: away we drive her whom, made with hands,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0all-beautiful,\n \u00a0\u00a0Skilled men prepare and fashion like a bride amid her nuptial\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0train. 2Complete, with head and nose and ears, all-beauteous, wrought\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0with magic skill\n \u00a0\u00a0Afar let her depart: away we drive her. 3Made by a Sidra or a Prince, by priests or women let her go.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 10: Hymn 1: A charm against witchcraft","word_count":910},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_av_av10002_htm","collection":"Hinduism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_av_av10002_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"1Who framed the heels of P\u016brusha? Who fashioned the flesh of\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0him? Who formed and fixed his ankles?","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 10: Hymn 2: Purusha, Primeval Man or humanity personified","word_count":869},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_av_av10003_htm","collection":"Hinduism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_av_av10003_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"1Here is my charm the Varana, slayer of rivals, strong in act. With this grasp thou thine enemies, crush those who fain would\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0injure thee. 2Break them in pieces; grasp them and destroy them.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 10: Hymn 3: A charm to secure long life, health, prosperity and fame","word_count":637},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_av_av10004_htm","collection":"Hinduism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_av_av10004_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"2The first of all is Indra's car, next is the chariot of the Gods\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the third is Varuna's alone. The last, the Serpents' chariot, struck the pillar and then sped\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0away. p.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 10: Hymn 4: A charm to destroy venomous serpents","word_count":657},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_av_av10005_htm","collection":"Hinduism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_av_av10005_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"1Ye are the power of Indra, ye the force and strength of Indra,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ye his hero might and manliness. I join you with the bonds of Prayer to the victorious enterprise. 6For the victorious enterprise let all creation stand by me.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 10: Hymn 4: A charm to overthrow a rival and gain strength, dignity, long life, children, and general prosperity","word_count":629},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_av_av10006_htm","collection":"Hinduism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_av_av10006_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"1With power I cut away the head of my malignant rival, of mine\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0evil-hearted enemy. 2This Amulet of citron-wood shall make for me a trusty shield\n \u00a0\u00a0Filled with the mingled beverage, with sap and vigour hath it\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0come. 3What though the strong-armed carpenter have cleft thee with\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0his hand and axe.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 10: Hymn 6: The glorification of an all-powerful amulet","word_count":851},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_av_av10007_htm","collection":"Hinduism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_av_av10007_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"1Which of his members is the seat of Fervour: Which is the base\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0of Ceremonial Order? p. 21\n \u00a0\u00a0Where in him standeth Faith?","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 10: Hymn 7: Skambha, the Pillar or Ful...","word_count":1220},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_av_av10008_htm","collection":"Hinduism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_av_av10008_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"1Worship to loftiest Brahma, Lord of what hath been and what\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0shall be,\n \u00a0\u00a0To him who rules the universe, and heavenly light is all his own! 2Upheld by Skambha's power these two, the heaven and the earth,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0stand fast. Skambha is all this world of life, whatever breathes or shuts an.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 10: Hymn 8: Speculations on the Suprem...","word_count":1232},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_av_av10009_htm","collection":"Hinduism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_av_av10009_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"1Binding 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. 2Thy skin shall be the Altar; let thine hair become the Sacred\n \u00a0\u00a0Grass. This 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.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 10: Hymn 9: The Sataudan\u0101 or Hund...","word_count":606},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_av_av11010_htm","collection":"Hinduism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_av_av11010_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"1Rise up, with all your banners rise; prepare your strength, ye\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0vapoury Forms! Serpents and fiends and Other Folk, charge and pursue our\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0enemies! 2Let those who bear an evil name, in air, in heaven on earth, and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0men,\n \u00a0\u00a0After Trishandhi's will, revere your power, the sway that Know-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ledge gives, together with your ruddy flags.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 11: Hymn 10: An incantation for the destruction of a hostile army","word_count":686},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_av_av11001_htm","collection":"Hinduism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_av_av11001_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"1Agni, spring forth! Here Aditi, afflicted, cooks a Brahmaudana,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0yearning for children. Let the Seven Rishis, World-creators, rub thee into existence\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0here with gift of offspring.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 11: Hymn 1: An accompaniment to the pr...","word_count":1168},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_av_av11002_htm","collection":"Hinduism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_av_av11002_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"1Bhava and Sarva, spare us, be not hostile. Homage to you, twin\n \u00a0\u00a0Lords of beasts and spirits! Shoot not the arrow aimed and drawn against us: forbear to\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0harm our quadrupeds and bipeds.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 11: Hymn 2: Prayer and praise to Bhava, Sarva and Rudra","word_count":863},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_av_av11003_htm","collection":"Hinduism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_av_av11003_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"11. Of that Odana Brihaspati is the head, Brahma the mouth. 22.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 11: Hymn 3: A glorification of the Odana or oblation of boiled rice","word_count":1036},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_av_av11004_htm","collection":"Hinduism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_av_av11004_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"1Homage to Pr\u0101na, him who hath dominion o'er the universe,\n \u00a0\u00a0Who hath become the Sovran Lord of all, on whom the whole\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0depends! 2Homage, O Pr\u0101na, to thy roar, to thunder-peal and lightning\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0flash! Homage, O Pr\u0101na, unto thee what time thou sendest down thy\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0rain!","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 11: Hymn 4: A glorification of Pr\u0101na, Breath or Vital Spirit","word_count":689},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_av_av11005_htm","collection":"Hinduism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_av_av11005_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"1Stirring both worlds the Brahmach\u0101ri moveth: in him the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0deities are all one-minded. He hath established firmly earth and heaven: he satisfies his\n \u00a0\u00a0Master with his Fervour. 2After the Brahmach\u0101r\u012b go the Fathers, the heavenly hosts, all\n \u00a0\u00a0Gods in separate order.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 11: Hymn 5: A glorification of the Brahmachgri or religious student","word_count":722},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_av_av11006_htm","collection":"Hinduism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_av_av11006_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"1We call on Agni, on the trees lords of the forest, herbs and. plants,\n \u00a0\u00a0Indra, S\u016brya, Brihaspati: may they deliver us from woe. 2We call on Vishnu, Bhaga, on Mitra and Varuna the King,\n \u00a0\u00a0Ansa Vivasv\u0101n we address: may they deliver us from woe.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 11: Hymn 6: A prayer to all Divinities...","word_count":563},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_av_av11007_htm","collection":"Hinduism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_av_av11007_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"1The Residue of Sacrifice containeth name, and from, and world:\n \u00a0\u00a0Indra and Agni and the whole universe are comprised therein. 2The Residue of Sacrifice holdeth Earth, Heaven, and all that is:\n \u00a0\u00a0The Residue of Sacrifice holdeth sea, waters, Moon, and Wind. 3Real, non-real, both are there, Praj\u0101pati, and Death, and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0strength:\n \u00a0\u00a0Thereon depend the worldly ones: in me are glory Dra and Vra.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 11: Hymn 7: A glorification of the Uchchhishta or Residue of Sacrifice","word_count":583},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_av_av11008_htm","collection":"Hinduism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_av_av11008_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"1When Manyu brought his consort home forth from Sankalpa's\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0dwelling-place,\n \u00a0\u00a0Who were the wooers of the bride, who was the chief who\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0courted her? 2Fervour and Action were the two, in depths of the great billowy\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0sea? These were the wooers of the bride; Brahma the chief who\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0courted her.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 11: Hymn 8: On the origin of some Gods and the creation of man","word_count":812},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_av_av11009_htm","collection":"Hinduism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_av_av11009_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"1All arms and every arrow, all the power and might that bows\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0possess,\n \u00a0\u00a0The warlike weapon, axes, swords, the plan and purpose in the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0heart,\n \u00a0\u00a0All this, O Arbudi, make thou visible to our enemies, and let\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0them look on mist and fog. 2Arise ye and prepare yourselves: ye, the celestial hosts, are\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0friends. Let your mysterious natures be seen by our friends O Arbudi.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 11: Hymn 9: An incantation for the destruction of a hostile army","word_count":768},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_av_av12001_htm","collection":"Hinduism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_av_av12001_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"1Truth, high and potent Law, the Consecrating Rite, Fervour,\n \u00a0\u00a0Brahma, and Sacrifice uphold the Earth. May she, the Queen of all that is and is to be, may Prithiv\u012b\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0make ample space and room for us. 2Not over awded by the crowd of Manu's sons, she who hath\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0many heights and floods and level plains;\n \u00a0\u00a0She who bears plants endowed with many varied powers, may\n \u00a0\u00a0Prithiv\u012b for us spread wide and favour us.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 12: Hymn 1: A hymn of prayer and praise to Prithiv\u012b or deified Earth","word_count":1991},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_av_av12002_htm","collection":"Hinduism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_av_av12002_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"This is a collection of ritual hymns from the Atharva Veda, one of the four sacred Hindu scriptures, presented here in Ralph T.H. Griffith's 1895 English translation \u2014 a verse-for-verse rendering that preserves the incantatory, imperative tone of the original Sanskrit liturgical tradition. The hymns center on a funerary and purification rite performed after a death in the household, with the overarching aim of separating the living from death's contagion and restoring the community to health and prosperity. A structurally distinctive theological move runs throughout: the fire god Agni is split into two opposed aspects \u2014 the malevolent \"corpse-eating\" or \"carnivorous\" Agni (Kravyad) associated with the cremation pyre, and the benevolent household fire Jatavedas, who carries oblations to the gods \u2014 and the ritual work consists largely of expelling the former while retaining and rekindling the latter. The hymns also invoke a broad pantheon (Adityas, Rudras, Vasus, Indra, Brahmanaspati, Savitar, Tvashtar) and deploy concrete material objects \u2014 lead, black-eyed sheep, beans, reed, cushions \u2014 as vehicles for transferring pollution away from the living. What makes these hymns particularly striking is their pragmatic, almost transactional religiosity: death is framed less as metaphysical passage than as a social and hygienic problem to be managed, with the priests directing Death itself to \"pursue thy special pathway\" and commanding it to stay among the Fathers rather than linger near the living. Readers interested in ancient Indian ritual practice, comparative religion, or the intersection of medicine and liturgy in pre-classical cultures will find this a vivid primary source.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 12: Hymn 2: A funeral hymn, and deprecation of Agni the Consumer of corpses","word_count":1512},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_av_av12003_htm","collection":"Hinduism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_av_av12003_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"1Mount, male from male, the skin. Go thither: summon those\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0whom thou lovest, one and all, to meet thee,\n \u00a0\u00a0Strong as ye were when first ye met each other, still be your\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0strength the same in Yama's kingdom. 2So strong your sight, so many be your powers, so great your\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0force, your energies so many,\n \u00a0\u00a0When fire attends the body as its fuel, then may, ye gain full\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0chargers, O ye couple.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 12: Hymn 3: An accompaniment to the preparation and presentation of sacrificial offerings by a householder and his wife, with prayer for prosperity and happiness on earth and in heaven","word_count":1939},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_av_av12004_htm","collection":"Hinduism","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_av_av12004_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"1Give the gift, shall be his word: and straightway they have bound\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the Cow\n \u00a0\u00a0For Br\u0101hman priests who beg the boon. That bringeth sons and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0progeny. 2He trades and traffics with his sons, and in his cattle suffers loss.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 12: Hymn 4: On the duty of giving cows...","word_count":1336}],"sort":"title","tag":null,"total":12745}