{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av01005.htm","path":"hin/av/av01005.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av01005.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Ye, Waters, truly bring us bliss: so help ye us to strength and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0power p. a6\n \u00a0\u00a0That we may look on great delight.\n 2Here grant to us a share of dew, that most auspicious dew of\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0yours,\n \u00a0\u00a0Like mothers in their longing love.\n 3For you we fain would go to him to whose abode ye send us\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0forth,\n \u00a0\u00a0And, Waters, give us procreant strength.\n 4I pray the Floods to send us balm, those who bear rule o'er\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0precious things,\n \u00a0\u00a0And have supreme control of men.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 1: Hymn 5: To the waters, for strength and power","type":"page"}