{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av09005.htm","path":"hin/av/av09005.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av09005.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Seize him and bring him hither. Let him travel. foreknowing, to\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the regions of the pious.\n \u00a0\u00a0Crossing in many a place the mighty darkness, let the Goat\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0mount to the third heaven above us.\n 2I bring thee hither as a share for Indra; prince, at this sacrifice,.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0for him who worships.\n \u00a0\u00a0Grasp firmly from behind all those who hate us: so let the sacri-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ficer's men be sinless.\n 3Wash from his feet all trace of evil-doing: foreknowing, with\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0cleansed hooves let him go upward.\n \u00a0\u00a0Gazing on many a spot, crossing the darkness, let the Goat\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0mount to the third heaven above us.\n 4Cut up this skin with the grey knife, Dissector! dividing joint\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0from joint, and mangle nothing\n \u00a0\u00a0Do him no injury: limb by limb arrange him, and send him up\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0to the third cope of heaven.\n 5With verse upon the fire I set the caldron: pour in the water;\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0lay him down within it! p. a369\n \u00a0\u00a0Encompass him with fire, ye Immolators. Cooked, let him reach\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the world where dwell the righteous.\n 6Hence come thou forth, vexed by no pain or torment. Mount to\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the third heaven from the heated vessel.\n \u00a0\u00a0As fire out of the fire hast thou arisen. Conquer and win this\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0lucid world of splendour.\n 7The Goat is Agni: light they call him, saying that living man\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0must give him to the Br\u0101hman.\n \u00a0\u00a0Given in this world by a devout believer, the Goat dispels and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0drives afar the darkness.\n 8Let the Panchaudana Goat, about to visit the three lights, pass\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0away in five divisions.\n \u00a0\u00a0Go midst the pious who have paid their worship, and parted,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0dwell on the third cope of heaven.\n 9Rise to that world, O Goat, where dwell the righteous: pass, like\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0a Sarabha veiled, all difficult places.\n \u00a0\u00a0The Goat Panchaudana, given to a Br\u0101hman, shall with all ful-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ness satisfy the giver.\n 10The Goat Panchaudana, given to a Br\u0101hman, sets the bestower\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0on the pitch of heaven,\n \u00a0\u00a0In the third vault, third sky, third ridge. One only Cow omni-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0form art thou, that yields all wishes.\n 11That is the third light that is yours, ye Fathers. He gives the\n \u00a0\u00a0Goat Panchaudana to the Br\u0101hman.\n \u00a0\u00a0Given in this world by the devout believer, the Goat dispels and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0drives afar the darkness.\n 12Seeking the world of good men who have worshipped, he gives\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the Goat Panchaudana to the Br\u0101hman.\n \u00a0\u00a0Win thou this world as thy complete possession. Auspicious\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0unto us be he, accepted!\n 13Truly the Goat sprang from the glow of Agni, inspired as sage\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0with all a sage's power.\n \u00a0\u00a0Sacrifice, filled, filled full, offered with Vashat\u2014this let the Gods\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0arrange.at proper seasons.\n 14Home-woven raiment let him give, and gold as guerdon to the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0priests.\n \u00a0\u00a0So he obtains completely all celestial and terrestrial worlds.\n 15Near to thee, Goat! approach these streams of Soma, divine,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0distilling meath, bedecked with butter! p. a370\n \u00a0\u00a0Stay thou the earth and sky and fix them firmly up on the seven-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0rayed pitch and height of heaven.\n 16Unborn art thou, O Goat: to heaven thou goest. Though thee\n \u00a0\u00a0Angirases knew that radiant region.\n \u00a0\u00a0So may I know that holy world.\n 17Convey our sacrifice to heaven, that it may reach the Gods, with\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0that\n \u00a0\u00a0Whereby thou, Agni, bearest wealth in thousands, and all pre-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0cious things.\n 18The Goat Panchaudana, when cooked, transporteth, repelling\n \u00a0\u00a0Nirriti, to the world of Svarga.\n \u00a0\u00a0By him may we win worlds which S\u016brya brightens.\n 19The droppings of the Odanas attending the Goat which I have\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0lodged with priest or people\n \u00a0\u00a0May all this know us in the world of virtue, O Agni, at the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0meeting of the pathways.\n 20This Unborn cleft apart in the beginning: his breast became the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0earth, his back was heaven.\n \u00a0\u00a0His middle was the air, his sides the regions; the hollows of his\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0belly formed both oceans.\n 21His eyes were Truth and Right. The whole together was Truth:\n \u00a0\u00a0Vir\u0101j his head and Faith his breathing.\n \u00a0\u00a0This Goat Panchaudana was indeed a sacrifice unlimited.\n 22A boundless sacrifice he performs, he wins himself a boundless\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0world:\n \u00a0\u00a0Who gives the Goat Panchaudana illumined with a priestly fee.\n 23Let him not break the victim's bones, let him not suck the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0marrow out.\n \u00a0\u00a0Let the man, taking him entire, here, even here deposit him.\n 24This, even this is his true form: the man uniteth him therewith.\n \u00a0\u00a0Food, greatness, strength he bringeth him who giveth the Goat\n \u00a0\u00a0Panchaudana illumed with guerdon.\n 25The five gold pieces, and the five new garments, and the five\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0milch-kine yield him all his wishes.\n \u00a0\u00a0Who gives the Goat Panchaudana illumined with a priestly\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0fee.\n 26The five gold pieces, area light to light him, robes become armour\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0to defend his body;\n \u00a0\u00a0He winneth Svarga as his home who giveth the Goat Panchaud-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ana illumed with bountry. p. a371\n 27When she who hath been wedded finds a second husband after-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ward,\n \u00a0\u00a0The twain shall not be parted if they give the Goat Panchaud-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ana.\n 28One world with the re-wedded wife becomes the second hus-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0band's home.\n \u00a0\u00a0Who gives the Goat Panchaudana illumined with the priestly fee.\n 29They who have given a cow who drops a calf each season, or an\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ox,\n \u00a0\u00a0A coverlet, a robe, or gold, go to the loftiest sphere of heaven.\n 30Himself, the father and the son, the grandson, and the father's\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0sire,\n \u00a0\u00a0Mother, wife, her who bore his babes, all the beloved ones I call.\n 31The man who knows the season named the Scorching\u2014the Goat\n \u00a0\u00a0Pafichaudana is this scorching season\n \u00a0\u00a0He lives himself, he verily burns up his hated rival's fame,\n \u00a0\u00a0Who gives the Goat Panchaudana illumined with the priestly\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0fee.\n 32The man who knows the season called the Working takes to\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0himself the active fame, his hated rival's active fame.\n \u00a0\u00a0The Goat Panchaudana is this Working season.\n \u00a0\u00a0He lives himself, etc.\n 33The man who knows the season called the Meeting takes to him-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0self the gathering fame, his hated rival's gathering fame.\n \u00a0\u00a0The Goat Panchaudana is this Meeting season.\n 34The man who knows the called the Swelling takes to himself the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0swelling fame, his hated rival's swelling fame.\n \u00a0\u00a0The Goat Panchaudana is this Swelling season.\n \u00a0\u00a0He lives himself, etc.\n 35The man who knows the season called the Rising takes to him-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0self the rising fame, his hated rival's rising fame.\n \u00a0\u00a0The Goat Panchaudana in this Rising season.\n 36The man who knows the season called Surpassing takes to him-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0self th\u00e9 conquering fame, his hated rival's conquering fame.\n \u00a0\u00a0The Goat Panchaudana is this Conquering season.\n \u00a0\u00a0He lives himself, he verily burns up his hated rival's fame\n \u00a0\u00a0Who gives the Goat Panchaudana illumined with a priestly fee.\n 37He cooks the Goat and the five boiled rice messes. May the uni-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ted Quarters, all accordant, and intermediate points, accept\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0him from thee. p. a372\n 38May these preserve him for thee. Here I offer t o these the molten\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0butter as oblation.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 9: Hymn 5: A glorification of a sacrificial goat","type":"page"}