{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av04028.htm","path":"hin/av/av04028.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av04028.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1I Reverence you\u2014mark this\u2014Bhava and Sarva, ye under whose\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0control is this that shineth.\n \u00a0\u00a0Lords of this world both quadruped and biped. Deliver us, ye\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0twain, from grief and trouble. p. a137\n 2Lords of all near and even of what is distant, famed as the best\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and skilfullest of archers,\n \u00a0\u00a0Lords of this world both quadruped and biped, Deliver us, ye\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0twain, from grief and trouble.\n 3Thousand-eyed foe-destroyers, I invoke you, still praising you\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the strong, of wide dominion:\n \u00a0\u00a0Lords of this world both quadruped and biped, Deliver us, ye\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0twain, from grief and trouble.\n 4Ye who of old wrought many a deed in concert, and showed\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0among mankind unhappy omens;\n \u00a0\u00a0Lords of this world both quadruped and biped, Deliver us, ye\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0twain, from grief and trouble.\n 5Ye from the stroke of whose destroying weapon not one among\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the Gods or men escapeth,\n \u00a0\u00a0Lords of this world both quadruped and biped, Deliver us, ye\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0twain, from grief and trouble.\n 6Hurl your bolt, strong Gods, at the Y\u0101tudh\u0101na, him who makes\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ready roots and deals in magic:\n \u00a0\u00a0Lords of this world both quadruped and biped, Deliver us, ye\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0twain, from grief and trouble.\n 7Comfort and aid us, ye strong Gods, in battles, at each Kimidin\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0send your bolt of thunder.\n \u00a0\u00a0I, suppliant, praise and ever call on Bhav and Sarva. Set us free\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0from grief and trouble.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 4: Hymn 28: A hymn to Bhava and Sarva","type":"page"}