{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av06108.htm","path":"hin/av/av06108.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av06108.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Intelligence, come first to us with store of horses and of kine!\n \u00a0\u00a0Thou with the rays of S\u016brya art our worshipful and holy one.\n 2The first, devout Intelligence, lauded by sages, sped by prayer,\n \u00a0\u00a0Drunk by Brahmach\u0101ris, for the favour of the Gods I call.\n 3That excellent Intelligence which Ribhus know, and Asuras,\n \u00a0\u00a0Intelligence which sages know, we cause to enter into me.\n 4Do thou, O Agni, make me wise this day with that Intelligence.\n \u00a0\u00a0Which the creative ishis, which the men endowed with wisdom\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0knew.\n 5Intelligence at eve, at morn, Intelligence at noon of day,\n \u00a0\u00a0With the Sun's beams, and by our speech we plant in us\n \u00a0\u00a0Intelligence.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 6: Hymn 108: A prayer for wisdom","type":"page"}