{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av07005.htm","path":"hin/av/av07005.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av07005.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1The Gods adored the Sacrifice with worship: these were the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0statutes of primeval ages.\n \u00a0\u00a0Those mighty ones attained the cope of heaven, there where the\n \u00a0\u00a0S\u0101dhyas, Gods of old, are dwelling.\n 2Sacrifice was, was manifest among us: it sprang to life and then\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0in time grew stronger.\n \u00a0\u00a0Then it became thedeities' lord and ruler: may it bestow on us\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0abundant riches.\n 3Where the Gods worshipped Gods with their oblation, worship-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ped immortals with immortal spirit, p. a272\n \u00a0\u00a0There in the loftiest heaven may we be happy, and look upon\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0that light when S\u016brya rises.\n 4With their oblation, Purusha, the Gods performed a sacrifice.\n \u00a0\u00a0A sacrifice more potent still they paid with the invoking hymn.\n 5With dog the Gods, perplexed, have paid oblation, and with\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0cow's limbs in sundry sacrifices.\n \u00a0\u00a0Invoke for us, in many a place declare him who with his mind.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0hath noticed this our worship.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 7: Hymn 5: A glorification of sacrifice","type":"page"}