{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av06125.htm","path":"hin/av/av06125.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av06125.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Mayst thou, O Tree, be firm indeed in body, our friend that\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0furthers us, a goodly hero.\n \u00a0\u00a0Put forth thy strength, compact with thongs of leather, and let\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thy rider win all spoils of battle.\n 2Its mighty strength was borrowed from the heaven and earth:\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0its conquering force was brought from sovrans of the wood.\n \u00a0\u00a0Honour with sacrifice the Car like Indra's bolt, the Car girt\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0round with straps, the vigour of the floods.\n 3Thou bolt of Indra, vanguard of the Maruts, close knit to\n \u00a0\u00a0Varuna and child of Mitra,\n \u00a0\u00a0As such, accepting gifts which here we offer, receive, O godlike\n \u00a0\u00a0Chariot, these oblations.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 6: Hymn 125: Glorification of a war-chariot","type":"page"}