{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av07050.htm","path":"hin/av/av07050.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av07050.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1As evermore the lightning flash strikes, irresistible, the tree,\n \u00a0\u00a0So, irresistible, may I conquer the gamblers with the dice. p. a290\n 2From every side, from hale and sick, impotent to defend them-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0selves,\n \u00a0\u00a0May all the fortune of the folk as winnings pass into my hands.\n 3I pray to Agni, him who guards his treasure: here, won by\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0homage, may he pile our winnings.\n \u00a0\u00a0As 'twere with racing cars I bring my presents: duly with\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0reverence, let me laud the Maruts.\n 4With thee to aid us may we win the treasure: do thou assist\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0our side in every battle.\n \u00a0\u00a0Give us wide room and easy way, O Indra; break down, O\n \u00a0\u00a0Maghavan, the foemen's valour.\n 5I have completely cleaned thee out, won from thee what thou\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0keptest back.\n \u00a0\u00a0As a wolf tears and rends a sheep, so do I tear thy stake away.\n 6Yea, by superior play one gains advantage: in time he piles his\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0spoil as doth a gambler.\n \u00a0\u00a0He overwhelms with wealth's inherent powers the devotee who\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0keeps not back his riches.\n 7May we all, much-invoked! repel with cattle want that brings\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0sin, hunger with store of barley.\n \u00a0\u00a0May we uninjured, first among the princes, obtain possessions\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0by our own exertions.\n 8My right hand holds my winnings fast, and in my left is\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0victory.\n \u00a0\u00a0I would that I were winner of cattle and horses, wealth and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0gold.\n 9Dice, give me play that bringeth fruit as 'twere a cow with\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0flowing milk!\n \u00a0\u00a0And, as the bowstring binds, the bow, unite me with a stream of\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0gains.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 7: Hymn 50: A gambler's prayer for suc...","type":"page"}