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Atharva Veda

Atharva Veda 3.24

For abundance of grain

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For abundance of grain

Rich in milk [are] the herbs, rich in milk my utterance (vácas); accordingly, of them that are rich in milk I bring by thousands.

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I know him that is rich in milk; he hath made the grain much; the god that is "collector" by name, him do we call, whichever is in the house of one who sacrifices not.

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These five directions that there are, the five races (kṛṣṭí) descended from Manu (mānavī́)—may they bring fatness (sphātí) together here, as streams [bring] drift when it has rained.

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As a fountain of a hundred streams, of a thousand streams, unexhausted, so this grain of ours, in a thousand streams, unexhausted.

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O hundred-handed one, bring together; O thousand-handed one, pile together; of what is made and of what is to be made do thou convey together the fatness here.

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Three measures of the Gandharvas, four of the house-mistress; of them whichever is richest in fatness, with that one we touch thee.

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Bringer (upohá) and gatherer (samūhá) [are] thy (two) distributors, O Prajāpati; let them convey hither fatness, much unexhausted plenty.

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W. D. Whitney's literal translation (1905), Books I–XIX. Words in ⌊half-brackets⌋ are his own notes and cross-references to his edition; a few verses he gives only in outline.

William Dwight Whitney (tr.), Atharva-Veda Saṁhitā, revised and edited by Charles Rockwell Lanman, Harvard Oriental Series 7–8 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University, 1905). Public domain. Transcribed and proofread from the scans by English Wikisource volunteers; translation only (critical notes omitted). · Source ↗

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