{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av04030.htm","path":"hin/av/av04030.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av04030.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1I travel with the Rudras and the Vasus, with the \u0100dityas and\n \u00a0\u00a0All-Gods I wander.\n \u00a0\u00a0I hold aloft both Varuna and Mitra, I hold aloft Indra and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0both the Asvins.\n 2I am the Queen, the gatherer-up of treasures, most thoughtful,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0first of those who merit worship.\n \u00a0\u00a0The Gods, making me enter many places, in diverse spots have\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0set mine habitation.\n 3I, verily, myself announce and utter the word that Gods, and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0men alike shall welcome.\n \u00a0\u00a0I make the man I love exceeding mighty, make him a sage, a\n \u00a0\u00a0Rishi, and a Br\u0101hman.\n 4Through me alone all eat the food that feeds them, each man\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0who sees, breathes, hears, the word out-spoken.\n \u00a0\u00a0They know it not, but yet they dwell beside me. Hear, one and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0all, the truth as I declare it.\n 5I bend the bow for Rudra that his arrow may strike and slay\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the hater of devotion.\n \u00a0\u00a0I rouse and order battle for the people, and I have penetrated\n \u00a0\u00a0Earth and Heaven.\n 6I cherish and sustain high-swelling Soma, and Tvashtar I support,\n \u00a0\u00a0Pashan, and Bhaga.\n \u00a0\u00a0I load with wealth the zealous sacrificer who pours the juice and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0offers his oblation.\n 7On the world's summit I bring forth the Father: my home is in\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the waters, in the ocean.\n \u00a0\u00a0Thence I extend o'er all existing creatures, and touch even\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0yonder heaven with my forehead.\n 8I breathe a strong breath like the wind and tempest, the while I\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0hold together all existence. p. a140\n \u00a0\u00a0Beyond this wide earth and beyond the heavens I have become\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0so mighty in my grandeur.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 4: Hymn 30: A glorification of v\u0101k or speech","type":"page"}