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


HYMN X

A prayer for the favour of Sarasvati

1That breast of thine, exhaustless and delightful, good to invoke,
   beneficent, free giver.
  Wherewith thou feedest all things that are choicest, bring that,
  Sarasvati, that we may drain it.


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