{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av04022.htm","path":"hin/av/av04022.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av04022.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Exalt and strengthen this my Prince, O Indra, Make him sole\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0lord and leader of the people.\n \u00a0\u00a0Scatter his foes, deliver all his rivals into his hand in struggles\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0for precedence.\n 2Give him a share in village, kine, and horses, and leave his\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0enemy without a portion.\n \u00a0\u00a0Let him as King be head and chief of Princes, Give up to him,\n \u00a0\u00a0O Indra, every foeman.\n 3Let him be treasure-lord of goodly treasures, let him as King be\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0master of the people.\n \u00a0\u00a0Grant unto him great power and might, O Indra, and strip his\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0enemy of strength and vigour.\n 4Like milch-kine yielding milk for warm libations, pour, Heaven\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and Earth! on him full many a blessing.\n \u00a0\u00a0May he as King be Indra's well-beloved, the darling of the kine,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the plants, the cattle.\n 5I join in league with thee victorious Indra, with whom men\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0conquer and are ne'er defeated.\n \u00a0\u00a0He shall make thee the folk's sole lord and leader, shall make\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thee highest of all human rulers.\n 6Supreme art thou, beneath thee are thy rivals, and all, O King,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0who were thine adversaries.\n \u00a0\u00a0Sole lord and leader and allied with Indra, bring, conqueror, thy\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0foremen's goods and treasures.\n 7Consume, with lion aspect, all their hamlets, with tiger aspect,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0drive away thy foemen.\n \u00a0\u00a0Sole lord and leader and allied with Indra, seize, conqueror,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thine enemies' possessions.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 4: Hymn 22: A benediction on a newly consecrated king","type":"page"}