A charm to protect cattle and men

Reading tools

Contents

Display

Soundscape

Focus mode

Listen

Offline

Save

Collection

1 min read 98 wordsCompare

Cite this text

“A charm to protect cattle and men.” Internet Sacred Text Archive. Read via Sacred Texts Reader. https://sacred-texts.xyz/browse/hin/av/av06059.htm

Sacred Texts Hinduism
Book 6 Index
Buy this Book at Amazon.com

Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895], at sacred-texts.com

HYMN LIX

A charm to protect cattle and men

1First, O Arundhatī, protect our oxen and milky kine:
  Protect each one that is infirm, each quadruped that yields no
   milk.
2Let the Plant give us sheltering aid, Arundhatī allied with Gods;
  Avert Consumption from our men and make our cow-pen rich
   in milk.
3I welcome the auspicious Plant, life-giving, wearing every hue.
  Far from our cattle may it turn the deadly dart which Rudra
   casts.

Ask PRATIBHA about this text

Answers quote this scripture directly and show their sources.

Reflect on this passage

Only you can see these notes. They stay on this device.