Kāṇḍa 6 — Short charms, household and healing

Sing, Atharvapa, at eve, sing loudly, bring a splendid present : hymn God Savitar with praises.

Yea, praise him whose home is in the river, Son of

Savitar our God shall send us many everlasting trea-

For Indra, ministering priests! run ye and press the

Thou into whom the drops find way as sap pours life

For Indra^ thunder-armed, who drinks the Soma

Guard us the Maruts! Guard us well, O Indra,

May Heaven and Earth take care of us for victory,

Preserve us both the Asvins, Gods and Lords of

Mat Tvashtar, Brahmanaspati, Parjanya hear my

May AAsa, Bhaga, Varupa, and Mitra, Aryaman, Aditi, and Maruts guard us. May we be freCvi from that oppressor's hatred. May he keep off that foeman who is near us.

May both the Asvins further our devotion. With ceaseless care deliver us, Wide-Ranger I O Father Heaven, keep from us all misfortunes.

Aqni, adored with sacred oil, lift up this man to high

Advance him, Indra ! Let him be ruler of all akin to

Prosper this man, O Agni, in whose house we offer

The godless man whoever plots against us, Brah- manaspati, Thou shalt give up as prey to me the worshipper who pour the juice.

Tf, Soma, any spiteful man hath aimed at us whose thoughts are kind, Smite with thy bolt upon his face : he, crushed to pieces, vanisheth.

Wide-Ranger ; far-reaching Heaven. Faih&r Heaven .* dyaushpikir s Zeu pater, Jupiter.

Soma ! what pathway Aditi and the three guifeless Mitras use, come thou with help to us thereby.

Thereby thou, conquering Soma, wilt give Asuras

Whereby ye Gods repelled and stayed the powers of

Like as the creeper throws her arms on every side

As, when he mounts, the eagle strikes his pinions downward on the earth. So do I strike thy spirit down that thou mayst be in love with me, my darling, never to depart

Dyaus: Heaven; *the bright sky itself, the old Dyaus, wor- shipped as we know by the Aryaa before they broke up into separate peoples and languages, and surviving in Greece as Zeus, in Italy as Jupiter, Heaven-father, and among the Teutonic tribes as T^r and . yv«/— M. Muller, India, What can it Teach us? pi 194.

Desirr my body, love my feet, love thou mine eyes,

I make thee hang upon mine arm, I make thee lie

May they whose kisses are a bond, a love-charm laid

All hail for hearing to the Earth, to Trees, to Agni, sovran Lord !

All hail for breath to Air, for powers of life to Vayu, sovran Lord !

Whose kisses are a bond : whose caresses make their calves love them. The cows, * the milky mothers,' the patterns of strong affection, are to soften the maiden's heart and fill it with a portion of their own

I, AS the Sun goes round the heaven, have travelled

Prajdpati : Lord of Life, whbse favoiiring aid is invoked on these occasions. See Eigveda X. 184. 1, and Atharva-veda V. 25. 13.

Anumati and Stntvdlt (see V. 25. 3) are deities presiding over different phases of the moon and associated with conception and child-

Worship to weapons of the Gods! worship to weapons

Let worship be to thy defence and to thine accusa-

Worship to thy physicians, to thy sorcerers be

Kemovb thou all Decline that lurks within the

From the consumptive man I pluck Decline as 'twere

Begone, Consumption, hence away, like a young foal

Most excellent of all the plants art thou : thy vassala

Whoever seeks to injure us^ with kinsmen or no kin

Yearly vintant like grass : usually prevalent in the rainy season when grass suddenly springs up in the greatest abundance.

O Abatct, non-Abayu, dire is thy juice, O Abaju : ive eat the gruel made of thee.

Vihalha is thy father's name, thy mother's is

Go thou to rest, Tauvilik4! This noisy cry hath

Even as this mighty Earth conceived the germ of all the tbiDgs that be, So may the germ of life be laid in thee that thou mayst bear a son.

Even as this mighty Earth hath borne and bears the stately forest trees, So may the germ of life be borne in thee that thou mayst bear a son.

The first approach of Jealousy, and that which fol-

Even as the earth is dead to sense, yea, more uncon- scious than the dead. Even as a corpse's spirit is the spirit of the jealous man.

The thought that harbours in thy heart, the flutter- ing doubt that dwells therein, Yea, a]l thy jealousy, like heat born of the dance, I banish thence.

Let the Gods purify me, let men purify me with a

May Favam&na make me pure for wisdom and for

God Savitar, by both of these, filter and pressing out

Hk goes away as 'twere from this fierce burning fire, inebriated and lamenting he departs.

To Rudra and to Fever be our worship paid : worship be paid to Varupa the splendid King !

Like heat horn of the dance : or, if driter^ as suggested in the St.

Of all the three terrestrial realms the ground is

Thou art the best of medicines, most excellent of

Endowed with wealth, denying not, give freely fain

Dark the descent; the strong-winged birds are

Soma : the Moon.

Green : or yellow. See I. 25. 3, where Fever is called * God of the sickly yellow.*

Herb flow the restless ones, they flow unceasing

Let the deft Waters, summoned, give permission that

Let all the people celebrate the rite of Savitar the

Forth from the Hills of Snow they stream, and meet

Whatever rupture I have had that injured eyes or heels or toes, All this the Waters, skilfullest physicians, shall make well again.

AH Rivers who have Sindhu for your Lady, Sindhu for your Queen, Give us the balm that heals this ill : this boon let us enjoy from yon.

Mat all the five-and-fifty which meet round the ten- dons of the neck

Those seventy-and-seven which meet round the upper vertebrae, Let them all vanish hence away like plaguing insects' buzz and hum !

Far yow Lady : Sindhu or Um deity of the river is sometimes feminine in the Veda.

Let me go free, O Misery: do thou, the mighty,

From thee, from thee who fliest not from us, O

May the immortal, thousand-eyed, dwell otherwhere

L^t not the arrow that bath wings distract us. Beside the fire-place, on the hearth it settles. May it bring welfare to our men and cattle : 'here let the Dove, ye Gods, forbear to harm us.

On ^tho36 men yonder fall the wingkl missile : the

iT^ese fRdcnr.'&e piJtaAs.

iTAe rtvfr.* which separates- the- world of life from the hpme of the dead. * Yama first found for us the road to travel ; this pasture

Over a magic stone, beside Sarasvati, the Gods ploughed in this barley that \tt5& blent witti mead.

Thy joy ifi hair that falleth or is^ scattered, where-

Auspicious, bearing mighty leaves; holy otle, nur-

This spotted Bull hath come and sat before his

As expiration from his breath his radiance penetrates

He rules supreme through thirty realms — One

With butter, in his hall where fire is burning, perform that sacrifice which quells the goblins.

Let Rudra break your necks, O ye Pis4chas, and split

Thirty realms : all the divisions of the world. One winged with The reading of the Bigveda is : vd^k patang^ya dhtyate^ Song is bestowed upon the Bird, that is, on the Sun whose morning song repre*

Send forth thy voice to Agoi, to the manly hero of

That Agni who with sharpened flame of fire consumes

He who from distance far remote shineth across the

He who beholds all creatures, who observes them

That brilliant Agni who was born beyond this region

Forth from the distance far away Vaisvauara come tb sucooBr ua! Agni approach our eulogies !

Vaisv&nara with friendly thoughts hath come to this

Vaisv4nara hath formed the hymn and laud of the

Holt Vaisv&nara we seek, the Lord of light and endless lifb, the burning One who fadetb not.

He hath directed all things; he sends forth the

Agni K&ma iu other homes sbines forth the sole

HiTHERWARD, having yoked his steeds, came Impre- cation, thousand-eyed.

He hath directed all things .* the xleity who is the object of worship being at the time of adoration i-egarded as the supreme Qod.

Angirases: descendants of the famous Rshi AngirftB, the priests who by using the magical formalas of the Athiorva^veda protect the sacrifice from; the effects' of inauspicious accidents. These : the officiat- ing priests and the ii^titutor of the sacrifice.

What energy the^ lion hath, the tiger, adder, wid

All energy of elephant and panther, all energy of

Might in car, axles, in the strong buU^s courage,

Let sacrifice, like fame, thrive sped by Indra, inspired, well-ordered^ with a thousand powers.

We will pay sacrifice and serve with worship our glorious Indra, famous for his glories.

In Warrior : in RAjanya or Kshatriya, one of the military and princely class. War-drum : see V. 20.

AsvATTHA on the Saml-tree. There a male birth is

The father sows the genial seed, the woman tends

PrajApati, Anumati, Siniv&U have ordered it. Elsewhere may he effect the birth of maids, but here

For mind, for intellect, for thought, for purpose,

For expiration, vital air, and breath that amply

Glorioui am I: the prayer is regarded as already fulfilled.

Firm stood the heaven, firm stood the earth, firm

Of all thy hundred remedies, a thousand remedies

Thou art the stream that Rudra pours, the closest

Thou, neither quick nor dead, O Sleep, art fraught

We know thy birth, O Sleep, thou art son of the sisters of the Gods : the minister of Yama thou, thou art Antaka, thou art Death. So' well we know thee who thou art. Sleep, guard us from the.eyil dream.

Jngira$a : descended from th&ancient Kishi Angii;a8, a priest after the order of Angiras, especiatija name of Bnhaspati or Brahma^aspati.

Dear to all men, all-prosperer, all-creating, may Agni,

At this our second offering may Indra, Maruts, and

We pour this third libation of the Sages who

Thou art the Hawk, G&yatrf s lord : I hold thee fast. Happily bear me to the goal of this my sacrifice. All hail!

Thou art the Tlibhu, lord of Jagatl : I hold thee fast.

Thou art the Bull, the Trishtup's lord : I hold thee

0 Agni, in thy body man bath never found a wounded

Thou like a fleece eontractest aod expandest thee

The Eagles have sent forth their voice aloud to

Slating the R&kshasas, the Sun mounts upward in

The kine had settled ia their pen, wild animals had

Varuna : addressed as the moral Governor of the world. The stanza is taken, with a sljight variant, from Bigveda YII. 80. 5.

May Heaven and Earth, wise pair, may lofty Sukra grant me this thing by reason of the guerdon.

Again return to us our breath and spirit, again come

We are again united with our bodies, with happy

t Win the love of Indra that his friend may reach yet

Confirm the princely power in him, Agni and Soma!

The man who shows us enmity, whether a stranger

Of all the many God-frequented pathways that

Maintain us in well-being Summer, Winter, Dew-

Pay to the Year your lofty adoration, to the first

LsTnot the serpent slay us, O Gods, with our child- ren and our folk. Xiet it not close the opened mouth nor open that which now is closed.

Be worship paid unto the black, worship to thact with stripes across ! To the brown viper reverence, reverence to the demon brood !

I close ttogether fangs with fang, I close together jaws with jaw. I close together tongue with tongue, I close together mouth with mouth.

Tmsis a medicine indeed, Rudra's own medicine is this. Wherewith he warns the arrow off, one-shafbed, with a hundred tips.

Besprinkle it with anodyne, bedew it with relieving

Let it be health and joy to us. Let nothing vex or

Mat Indra Maghavan give me name aod g^ory.

Indra from Heaven and Earth receiveth glory,

Indra and Agni were renowned, famous was Soma at

First, 0 Arundhatt, protect our oxen and our milky

Let the Plant give us sheltering aid, Arundhati

I welcome the auspicious Plant, life-giving, wearing

With forelock loosened o'er his brow here comes the

Wooer ! this girl hath toiled in vain, going to others'

Dh&tar upholds the spacious earth, upholds the sky,

The Waters send me what is sweet and pleasant, StUra bring all I need for light and vision I

I set the heaven and the earth asunder, I brought all seven seasons into being. My word is truth, what I deny is falsehood, above celestial Vftk^ above the nations.

Dhdiar : here regarded as the Upholder of the sacrament of marriage. See II. 36. 2.

Cleanse us Vaisv4nara with rays of splendour !

Lay hold on St!inrit& whose forms and regions have

For splendour, seize on her whom all men worship,

Thou, mighty Agni, good and true, gatherest up all

This angry spirit bath r^xed : loose are the arms

The sheift for hendless fiendis which, God& I ye cast

Indra made first for Asuras the shaft designed for

Handlsss be every foeman who assaileth, they who with missiles come to fight against us !

Ye who run hither bending bows, brandishing swords

Handless be these our enemies ! We enervate their

Indra and Piishan have gone forth along the ways

Ya foes, come hitherward dismayed like serpents

Gird thou a bullock's hide on these, make those as

Mine be the glory in the hill, in vales, in cattle, and

With your delicious honey balm me, Asvins, Lords

In me be strength, in me be fame, in me the power

As wine associates with flesh, as dice attend the

As the male elephant pursues with eager step his

Close as the felly and the spoke, fixt as the wheeUrim

What food I eat of varied form and nature, food

Whatever, sacrificed or not| hath reached me,

What food I eat unjustly^ Qodsl or, doubtful between

Let Varupa come hither, Soma, Agni, Btihaspati

The inclination which your hearts have harboured,

Stand even here : forsake me not. Before us may

Close gathered be your bodies : be your miuds and

Let there be union of your minds, let there be union

As, free from jealousy, the strong Adityas have been

Forth from his dwelling drive that man, the foeman

Indra, Foe«^Slayer, drive liim forth into the distance

To the thre0 distances, i)eyond mankind's Five

Those who encompass slay him not: he goes not near

Firm stands the heaven, firm stands the earth, firm

I call the Herdsman, him who knows the way to

O J&taveda9, turn them back : a hundred homeward

Let this man be again bedewed with this presented

With life's sap let him comfort her, and raise her high

Tvashtar formed her to be thy dame, Tvasbtar made

May thi3 our Lord of Cloudy Sky, bedewed with liquid drops, preserve unequalled richesin our homes.

Lord of the Cloudy Sky, bestow vigour and strength

Thou, God bedewed with drops, art Lord of infinite

He flieth in the firmament observing all the things

The three, the K&lakdnjas, set aloft in heaven as

In waters is thy birth, in heaven thy station, thy

Thou art a grasper, holding fast both hands : thou

Prepare accordantly, O King, the mother for the

The Amulet which Aditi wore when desirous of a son, Tvashtar hath bound upon this dame and said,

t GALL the name of him who comes, hath come, and

Thus Bhaga spake to me : . Let him bring thee a consort by the path Whereon the Asvins brought the bride Sftrysl the child of Savitar.

Great, Indra, is that hook of thine, bestowing treasure, wrought of gold : Therewith, 0 Lord of Might, bestow a wife on me who long to wed.

Henob, Sores and Pustules, fly away even as the

One bright with variegated tints, one white, one black, a couple red : — The names of all have I declared. Begone, and injure not our men.

That hook: of. 'Long be thy grasping-hook wherewith thou givest ample wealth to him Who sheds the juice and worships thee'

Hence, childless, shall the Pustule flee, grand- daughter of the dusky one.

Thou in whose dread mouth I present oblation, that these bound victims may obtain their freedom,

Be thou enriched, O Welfare, with oblations, here,

Do thou, Destruction, thurt, without a rival, release

Thou hast been fastened to an iron pillar, here com-

Let Varapa the heavenly tree here present keep

0 Welfare : apparently an euphemistic expression for Destruction, as the Qreek Eumenides, Gracious Goddesses, was for the Furies. Prof.

Th6 iron bonds : of sin. Thee : some man who has been danger- ously ill.

This stanza is repeated from VI. 63. 3.

This is the liord of Indra, this the Lord of Heaven^

The Sea is regent of the fioi>ds, Agni is ruler of the

Thou art the King of Asuras, the crown and summit

Here art thou : I have chosen thee. Stand stedfast

Be even here : fall not away : be like a mountain

Awtrai : earthly lords.

Firm is the sky, firm is the earth, and firm is all this

Stedfast may VaruQa the King^ sted&st the God

Firm, never to be shaken, crush thy foemen, under

This strength that Soma hath bestowed, the head of

We make thy apirit sorrowful, we fill thy miod with

May VaruQa and Mitra, may SarasTati the Qoddess,

The shaft that Hndra hath shot forth against thy

From all the hundred vessels spread throu^K)ut the

Worship to thee, the archer, and, O Rudra, to thy

Thet made this barley ready with a team of eighty

V&ta breathes downward from above, and downward

The Waters verily bring health, the Waters drive

Yama, Death direly fatal, the Destroyer, with his

With mind, burnt-offerings, butter, and libation,

Save us, AU-Gods and all -possessing Maruts, from

We bend your minds in union, bend in harmony your

Bhava : a deity attending on Rudra : in later mythology a name or form of Siva whose consort is the awful Goddess Bhavani.

I have invoked both Heaven and Earth, invoked

Thou art the infant of the plants, the infant of the Snowy Hills : The germ of every thing that is : free this my friend from his disease.

The many plants of hundred shapes and forms that

Let them release me from the cttrae and from the noose of Vann>a, f^ree me from Yama^s fetter, and from every sin against the Gkxls t

In this strong hero be ye glad and joy fill j cleave ye

B*rom eVery fault in look, in word, in spirit that we, awake or sleeping, haVe committed, May Soma, with his godlike natare, cleanse a&

Indra be victor, never to be vanquished, ta reign

Thou fain for glory, an imperial ruler, bast won

Thou governest the north and eastern regions« Indtaf

Indra, before affliction eon>es, I call thee from the

Whatever deadly missile lauuebed to-day flies fortb

We draw about ns boib the arms of Indra, our

See Appendix.

Upajtkds : termites or white ants. See note on II. 3. 2. * Whence do these Ants get their moisture ? Our house was built on a hard ferru- ginous conglomerate, in order to be out of the way of the White Ants, but they came despite the precaution, and not only were they in this sultry weather able individually to moisten soil to the consistency of mortar for the formation of galleries .... but when their inner

Addressed to some magical herb, probably Arundhati or Silacht %hich is called sister of the Gods in V. 5. 1. Asuras : divine beings; Gods.

Even as this ox, O Asvins, steps and turns together

I, as the shaft-horse draws the mare beside him, draw

Swiftly from Bhaga's hands I bear away a love-

Wb bind our foemen with a bond that binds them

This bond, made keen by Indra, I have formed with

Indra and Agni bind them fast. Soma the King,

Kapidlt as the fancy flies forth with conceptions of

Rapidly as an arrow flies away with keenly-sharpen-

Rapidly as the beams of light, the rays of Siirya,

Lbt flowery Ddrv4 grass grow up about thine exit

This is the place where waters meet, here is the

O House, we compass thee about with coolness to

Entrust me, Visvajit, to Tr^yamA^A. Guard, TrAyam^^A, all our men, guard all our wealth of quadrupeds.

To Visvajit entrust me, TrAyam^nd. O Visvajit, guard all our men, etc.

To Visvajit entrust me, O KalyA^l. Guard, O KalyAol, all our men, etc.

To Sarvavid entrust me, O Kaly^oi.

Intelligkncb, come first to as with store of horses

The first, devoctt Intelligence, lauded by sages, sped

That excellent Intellrgence which !^ibhus know, and

Do thou, O Agni, make me wise this day with that

Intelligence at eve, at morn, Intelligence at nooft

The Berry heals the missile's rent, it heals the

When from their origin they came, the Berries spake among themselves : The man whom we shall find alive shall never suffer injury.

Aiuras : fiends. Buried thee : to prevent thee from saving human life. Cf. II. 3. 3.

Asuras buried thee in earth ; the Gods again uplifted thee, Healer of sickness caused by wounds and healer of the missile's rent.

Unbind and loose for me this map, O Agni, who bound and well restrained is chattering folly.

Let Agni gently soothe thy mind when fierce exciter

Insane through sin against the Gods, or maddened

May the Apsarases release, Indra and Bhaga let

This sin the Gods wiped off and laid on Trita, and Trita wiped it off on human beings.

Enter the particles of light and vapours, go to the

Stored in twelve separate places lies what Trita

Whatever God-provoking virrong we priesta bave

Here set us free, O holy ones, Adityas, by the right

With ladle full of fatness we, worshippers, pouring

Whatever wroag we wittingly or in our ignorance

If I, a sinner, when awake or sleeping have commit-

As one unfastened from a stake, or cleansed by

The wealth which husbandmen aforetime, digging, like men who find their food with knowledge, buried,

May he, Vaivasvata, prepare our portion. May he

Whether this sin into our heart hath entered regard-

That which I eat, a debt which still is owing,

Still dwelling here we give again this present ;

May we be free in this world and that yonder, in the

If we have sinned with both our hands, desiring to

Stern viewers of their sins who rale the people, for-

My creditor, the man whose wife I visit, be, Gods !

The debt which I incur, not gaming, Agni I and, not

I cause Vaisv&Dara to know, canfe9sing the debt

Vaisvftnara the Purifier purge me when I oppose

If we have injured Air, or Earth, or Heaven, if we have wronged our Mother or our Father,

Earth is our Mother, Aditi our birth-place: our brother Air save us from imprecation ! Dyaus, Father, save us, from the world of Fathers ! My world not lost, may 1 approach my kindred.

There where our virtuous friends, who left behind them their bodily infirmities, are happy, Free from distortion of the limbs and lameness, may we behold, in heaven, our sons and patents.

Si^EBADiNO them out, untie the snares that hold us,

If thou art bound with cord, or tied to timber, fixt

Compare III. 28. 5. sqq«

Open thyself, make room : from bonds thou shalt

This portion I who understand deliver to Visvakar-

This long-drawn thread some follow who have oflTer-

Stand on my side and range yourselves in order,

Dwelling with zeal I mount in spirit after the lofty

These women here, cleansed, purified, and holy, I place at rest, singly, in hands of Brahmans. May Indra, Marut-girt, grant me the blessing I long lor as I pour you this Bbation.

Yjb who are present, unto you I offer this treasure

Do ye acknowledge him in highest heaven : ye know

Gods are the Fathers, and the Fathers Gods. I am

I cook, I give^ I offer up oblation^ From what

O King, take thou thy stand in heaven, there aIso

f^ROM tbe high firmament, yea, ottt of heaven a water-drop with dew on me ilath fallen.

it is a fruit if any tree hath dropped it, a breathy if ftom the sky it hath descended. Where it hath touched my body or my garmenty tbence may the Waters drive Destruction backward.

Matst thou, O Tree, be firm indeed in body, oUf friend that furthers us, a goodly hero.

Its mighty strength was borrowed from the heaven and earth : its conquering force was brought from sovrans of the wood. Honour with sacrifice the Car like Indra's bolt, the Car girt round with straps, the vigour of the floods.

Thou bolt of Indra, vanguard of the Maruts, close knit to Varupa and child of Mitra, — As such, accepting gifts which here we offer, receive^ O godlike Chariot, these oblations.

SftND forth thy voice aloud through eatth and heaveti/ and let the world in all its breadth regard thee.

Thunder out strength and fill us full of vigfotfr, yea^ thunder forth and drive away misfortunes. Drive hence, O Drum, drive thou away mlschanceau Thou art the fist of Indra, show thy firmness.

Tho9t : the enemy. The$e : our own men.

What time the heavenly bodies chose the Weather

May we have weather fair at noon^ may we have

Fair weather to the day and night, and, to the stars

Be worship ever paid to thee, O Weather Prophet, King of Stars, Who gavest us good weather in the evening and by night and day !

With fortune of the Sisu tree— with Indra as my

That splendour and felicity wherewith thou liAst

Blind fortune, with reverted leaves that is deposited

This is the Apsarases' love-spell, the conquering

I pray, may he remember me, think of me, loving

With reverted leavu : referring to the plant called Apim&rga. See IV. 19.

Madden him, Maruts, madden him. Madden him,

Down upon thee, from head to foot, I draw the

Assent to this, O Heavenly Grace ! Celestial Pur-

If tbou shouldst run three leagues away, ^ve leagues,

Thb Philter, burning with the pangs of yearning love, vhioh Gods have poured within the bosom of the floods,

The charn^ whioh, burning with the pangs of love,

The Philter, burning with the pangs of longing,

The charm, aglow with longing, whioh Indra and

Thou whom primeval Kishis girt about them, they

This Thundeibolt shall take its fill of Order, scare life away and overthrow the kingdom,

Down, down beneath the conquerors, let him not

Seek out the fierce oppressor, yea, strike only tbe

She : the girdle. World^ectiing Riskis: see III. 28. I ; IV. I. 2.

Born from the bosom of wide Earth the Goddess,

Make the old firm, make new hair spring, lengthen

Thy hair where it ia falling off, and with the roots is

Ths Plant which Jamadagni dug to make his

They might be measured with a rein, meted with

Strengthen the roots, prolong the points, lengthen

Even as his mouth is parched who finds no water for

Re8tore$the wounded snake : the mungoose [Viverra Ichneumon] is t>opularly believed to protect itself, and cure its woimds received in encounters with snakes, by means of a medicinal plant ; but it is not now credited with the chivalrous generosity here ascribed to it.

Even as the Mungoose bites and rends and then restores the wounded snake, So do thou, mighty one, restore the fracture of our severed love.

VAtu collected these: to find their sustenance be

Take thou the iron axe and make a pair by marks

Even as Qoda and Asuras, even as mortal men have

Spring high, O Barley, and become much through thine own magnificence :

As we invite and call to thee. Barley, a God who

Exhaustless let thine out-turns be, exhaustless be