{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av02005.htm","path":"hin/av/av02005.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av02005.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Indra, be gracious, drive thou forth, come, Hero, with thy two\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0bay steeds.\n \u00a0\u00a0Taste the libation, hither, enjoying meath and the hymn, come,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0fair, to the banquet.\n 2O Indra, even as one athirst, fill thee with meath as 'twere from\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0heaven.\n \u00a0\u00a0Sweet-toned, the raptures of this juice have come to thee as to\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the light.\n 3Swift-conquering Indra, Mitra like, smote, as a Yati, Vritra\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0dead.\n \u00a0\u00a0Like Bhrigu he cleft Vala through, and quelled his foes in Soma's\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0rapturous joy.\n 4O Indra, let the juices enter thee. Fill full thy belly, sate thee,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0mighty one! Let the hymn bring thee.\n \u00a0\u00a0Hear thou my call, accept the song I sing, here, Indra, with thy\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0friends enjoy thyself, to height of rapture.\n 5Now will I tell the manly deeds of Indra, the first that he\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0achieved, the thunder-wielder.\n \u00a0\u00a0He slew the Dragon, then disclosed the waters, and cleft the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0channels of the mountain torrents.\n 6He slew the Dragon lying on the mountain: his heavenly bolt of\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thunder Tvashtar fashioned.\n \u00a0\u00a0Like lowing kine in rapid flow descending the waters glided\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0downward to the ocean.\n 7Impetuous as a bull he chose the Soma, and quaffed the juices\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0in three sacred beakers. p. a38\n \u00a0\u00a0Maghavan grasped the thunder for his weapon, and smote to\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0death this first-born of the dragons.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 2: Hymn 5: Invitation to, and praise o...","type":"page"}