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


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HYMN XLVIII

A prayer for prosperity and the birth of a son

1I call on Rākā with hair laud and reverent cry: may she,
   auspicious, hear us and herself observe.
  With never-breaking needle may she sew her work, and send a
   glorious man who gives a hundred gifts.
2All thy kind favours, Rākā! lovely in their form, wherewith
   thou grantest treasures to the man who gives,
  With these come thou to us this day benevolent, O blessed one,
   bestowing wealth of thousand sorts.


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