Atharva Veda
For safety and increase of kine
For safety and increase of kine
Hither let the cattle come that went away, whose companionship (sahacārá) Vāyu (the wind) enjoyed, whose form-givings Tvashṭar knows; in this cow-stall let Savitar make them fast (ni-yam).
To this cow-stall let cattle flow-together ⌊stream together⌋ (sam-sru); let Brihaspati, foreknowing, lead them hither; let Sinīvālī lead hither the van (ágra) of them; make them fast when they have come, O Anumati.
Together, together let cattle flow ⌊stream⌋, together horses, and together men, together the fatness that is of grain; I offer with an oblation of confluence.
I pour together the milk (kṣīrá) of kine, together strength, sap, with sacrificial butter; poured together are our heroes; fixed are the kine in me ⌊rather, with me⌋ [as] kine-lord.
I bring (ā-hṛ) the milk of kine; I have brought the sap of grain; brought are our heroes, our wives, to this home (ástaka).