{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av03022.htm","path":"hin/av/av03022.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av03022.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Famed be the Elephant's strength, the lofty glory, which out of\n \u00a0\u00a0Aditi's body took existence!\n \u00a0\u00a0They all have given me this for my possession, even all the Gods\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and Aditi accordant.\n 2On this have Mitra, Varuna, Indra, and Rudra fixed their\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thought.\n \u00a0\u00a0May those all-fostering deities anoint and balm me with his\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0strength.\n 3The strength wherewith the Elephant was dowered, that decks a\n \u00a0\u00a0King among the men, in waters,\n \u00a0\u00a0O Agni, even with that strength make thou me vigorous to-day.\n 4The lofty strength which sacrifice brings, J\u0101tavedas! unto thee,\n \u00a0\u00a0What strength the Sun possesses, all strength of the royal Ele-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0phant\u2014such strength vouchsafe to me the pair of Asvins\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0lotus-garlanded!\n 5Far as the heaven's four regions spread, far as the eye's most\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0distant ken.\n \u00a0\u00a0So wide, so vast let power be mine, this vigour of the Elephant.\n 6Now hath the Elephant become chief of all pleasant beasts to\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ride.\n \u00a0\u00a0With his high fortune and his strength I grace and conscorate\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0myself.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 3: Hymn 22: The taming and training of...","type":"page"}