{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av05011.htm","path":"hin/av/av05011.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av05011.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1How, terrible in might, hast thou here spoken to the great God,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0how to the gold-hued Father!\n \u00a0\u00a0Thy mind watched, greedy Varuna! to recover the brindled cow\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thou hadst bestowed as guerdon.\n 2Not through desire do I revoke my present: I bring this brind-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0led cow to contemplate her.\n \u00a0\u00a0Now by what lore, by what inherent nature, knowest thou all\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0things that exist, Atharvan?\n 3Truly I am profound in wisdom, truly I know by nature all\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0existing creatures.\n \u00a0\u00a0No D\u0101sa by his greatness, not an Arya, may violate the law that\n \u00a0\u00a0I will stablish.\n 4None, self-dependent Varuna! existeth wiser than thou or sager\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0by his wisdom.\n \u00a0\u00a0Thou knowest well all these created beings: even the man of\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0wondrous powers fears thee.\n 5O self-dependent Varuna, wise director, thou knowest verily all\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0generations.\n \u00a0\u00a0What is, unerring one! beyond this region? What more remote\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0than that which is most distant?\n 6One thing there is beyond this air, and something beyond that\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0one, most hard to reach, remotest.\n \u00a0\u00a0I, Varuna, who know, to thee declare it. Let churls be mighty p. a167\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0in the lower regions. Let D\u0101sas sink into the earth beneath\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0them.\n 7Many reproaches, Varuna, dost thou utter against the misers.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0who revoke their presents.\n \u00a0\u00a0Be not thou added to that crowd of niggards: let not men call\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thee an illiberal giver.\n 8Let not men call me an illiberal giver. I give thee back the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0brindled cow, O singer.\n \u00a0\u00a0Attend in every place where men inhabit, with all thy powers,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the hymn that tells my praises.\n 9Let hymns of praise ascend to thee, uplifted in every place of\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0human habitation.\n \u00a0\u00a0But give me now the gift thou hast not given. Thou art my\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0friend for ever firm and faithful.\n 10One origin, Varuna! one bond unites us I know the nature of\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0that common kinship.\n \u00a0\u00a0I give thee now the gift that I retracted. I am thy friend for ever\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0firm and faithful.\n 11God, giving life unto the god who lauds me, Sage strengthener\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0of the sage who sings my praises.\n \u00a0\u00a0Thou, self-dependent Varuna! hast begotten the kinsman of the\n \u00a0\u00a0Gods, our sire Atharvan.\n \u00a0\u00a0On him bestow most highly-lauded riches. Thou art our friend,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0high over all, our kinsman.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 5: Hymn 11: A dialogue between Atharvan and Varuna","type":"page"}