{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av04026.htm","path":"hin/av/av04026.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av04026.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1O Heaven and Earth, I think on you, wise, givers of abundant\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0gifts, ye who through measureless expanses have spread forth.\n \u00a0\u00a0For ye are seats and homes of goodly treasures. Deliver us, ye\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0twain from grief and trouble.\n 2Yea, seats and homes are ye of goodly treasures, grown strong,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0divine, blessed, and far-extending,\n \u00a0\u00a0To me, O Heaven and Earth, be ye auspicious. Deliver us, ye\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0twain, from grief and trouble.\n 3I call on you who warm and cause no sorrow, deep, spacious,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0meet to be adored by poets.\n \u00a0\u00a0To me, O Heaven and Earth, be ye auspicious. Deliver us, ye\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0twain, from grief and trouble.\n 4Ye who maintain Amrit and sacrifices, ye who support rivers\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and human beings,\n \u00a0\u00a0To me, O Heaven and Earth, be ye auspicious, Deliver us, ye\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0twain, from grief and trouble.\n 5Ye by whom cows and forest trees are cherished within whose\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0range all creatures are included,\n \u00a0\u00a0To me, O Heaven and Earth, be ye auspicious. Deliver us, ye\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0twain, from grief and trouble.\n 6Ye who delight in nectar and in fatness, ye without whom men\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0have no strength or power,\n \u00a0\u00a0To me, O Heaven and Earth, be ye auspicious. Deliver us, ye\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0twain, from grief and trouble.\n 7The grief that pains me here, whoever caused it, not sent by fate,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0hath sprung from human action.\n \u00a0\u00a0I, suppliant, praise Heaven, Earth, and oft invoke them. Deliver\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0us, ye twain, from grief and trouble.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 4: Hymn 26: A hymn to Heaven and Earth","type":"page"}