{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av04001.htm","path":"hin/av/av04001.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av04001.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Eastward at first the prayer was generated: Vena disclosed bright\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0flashes from the summit,\n \u00a0\u00a0Disclosed his deepest, nearest revelations, womb of the non-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0existent and existent.\n 2Let this Queen come in front, her Father's daughter, found in\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the worlds for earliest generation.\n \u00a0\u00a0For him they set this radiant vault in motion. Let them prepare\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0warm milk for him who first would drink.\n 3He who was born as his all-knowing kinsman declareth all the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0deities' generations.\n \u00a0\u00a0He from the midst of prayer his prayer hath taken. On high,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0below, spread forth his godlike nature.\n 4For he, true to the law of Earth and Heaven, established both\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the mighty worlds securely.\n \u00a0\u00a0Mighty when born, he propped apart the mighty, the sky, our\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0earthly home, and air's mid-region.\n 5He from the depth hath been reborn for ever, Brihaspati the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0world's sole Lord and Ruler.\n \u00a0\u00a0From light was born the Day with all its lustre: through this\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0let sages live endowed with splendour.\n 6The sage and poet verily advanceth the statute of that mighty\n \u00a0\u00a0God primeval.\n \u00a0\u00a0He was born here with many more beside him: they slumbered\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0when the foremost side was opened.\n 7The man who seeks the friend of Gods, Atharvan the father,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and Brihaspati, with worship,\n \u00a0\u00a0Crying to him, Be thou all things' creator! the wise God, self-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0dependent, never injures.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 4: Hymn 1: Cosmogonical and mystico-th...","type":"page"}