{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av07109.htm","path":"hin/av/av07109.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av07109.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1My homage to the strong, the brown, the sovran lord among\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the dice!\n \u00a0\u00a0Butter on Kali I bestow: may he be kind to one like me.\n 2Bear butter to the Apsarases, O Agni, and to the Dice bear dust\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and sand and water.\n \u00a0\u00a0The Gods delight in both oblations, joying in sacrificial gifts\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0apportioned duly.\n 3The Apsarases take pleasure in the banquet between the Sun and.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the libation-holder.\n \u00a0\u00a0With butter let them fill my hands, and give me, to be my prey,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the man who plays against me.\n 4Evil be mine opponent's luck! Sprinkle thou butter over us.\n \u00a0\u00a0Strike, as a tree with lightning flash, mine adversary in the game.\n 5The God who found for us this wealth for gambling, to cast the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0dice and count the winning number,\n \u00a0\u00a0May he accept the sacrifice we offer, and with Gandharvas revel\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0in the banquet.\n 6Fellow-inhabitants, such is your title, for Dice with looks of\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0power support dominion. p. a318\n \u00a0\u00a0As such with offerings may we serve you, Indus! May we have\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0riches in our own possession.\n 7As I invoke the Gods at need, as I have lived in chastity,\n \u00a0\u00a0May these, when I have grasped the Dice, the brown, be kind to\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0one like me.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 7: Hymn 109: A prayer for success in g...","type":"page"}