Atharva Veda · 238 of 724

HYMN LXX

A benediction on cow and calf 1. As wine associates with flesh, as dice attend the gaming-board,   As an enamoured man's desire is firmly set upon a dame,   So let thy heart and soul, O Cow, be firmly set upou thy calf. 2. As the male elephant pursues with eager step his female's track,   As an enamoured man's desire is firmly set upon a dame,   So let thy heart and soul, O Cow, be firmly set upon the calf. 3. Close as the felly and the spoke, fixt as the wheel-rim on the    nave,   As an enamoured man's desire is firmly set upon a dame,   So let thy heart and soul, O Cow, be firmly set upon thy calf.