{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av07026.htm","path":"hin/av/av07026.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av07026.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1I will declare the mighty deeds of Vishnu, of him who measured\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0out the earthly regions, p. a281\n \u00a0\u00a0Who propped the highest place of congregation, thrice setting\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0down his footstep, widely striding.\n 2Loud boast doth Vishnu make of this achievement, like some\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0wild beast, dread, prowling, mountain-roaming.\n \u00a0\u00a0May he approach us from the farthest distance.\n 3Thou within whose three wide-extended paces all worlds and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0creatures have their habitation,\n \u00a0\u00a0Drink oil, thou homed in oil! promote the sacrificer more and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0more.\n 4Through all this world strode Vishnu: thrice his foot he planted,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and the whole\n \u00a0\u00a0Was gathered in his footstep's dust.\n 5Vishnu the guardian, he whom none deceiveth, made three steps,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thenceforth.\n \u00a0\u00a0Establishing these high decrees.\n 6Look ye on Vishnu's works, whereby the friend of Indra, close-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0allied,\n \u00a0\u00a0Hath let his holy ways be seen.\n 7The princes evermore behold that loftiest place where Vishnu is,\n \u00a0\u00a0Like an extended eye in heaven,\n 8From heaven, O Vishnu, or from earth, O Vishnu, or from the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0great far-spreading air's mid-region,\n \u00a0\u00a0Fill both thy hands full of abundant treasures, and from the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0right and left bestow them freely.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 7: Hymn 26: Praise of Vishnu","type":"page"}