{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av09009.htm","path":"hin/av/av09009.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av09009.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1The second brother of this lovely Hotar, hoary with eld, is the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0voracious Lightning.\n \u00a0\u00a0The third is he whose back is balmed with butter. Here have I\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0seen the King with seven male children.\n 2The seven make the one-wheeled chariot ready: bearing seven\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0names the single Courser draws it.\n \u00a0\u00a0The wheel, three-naved, is sound and undecaying: thereon these\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0worlds of life are all dependent.\n 3The seven who on this seven-wheeled car are mounted have\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0horses, seven in tale, who draw them onward.\n \u00a0\u00a0Seven sisters utter songs of praise together, in whom the Cows'\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0seven names are held and treasured.\n 4Who hath beheld at birth the Primal Being, when She who hath\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0no bone supports the bony?\n \u00a0\u00a0Where is the blood of earth, the life, the spirit? Who may ap-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0proach the man who knows, to ask it?\n 5Let him who knoweth presently declare it, this lovely Bird's\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0securely-founded station.\n \u00a0\u00a0Forth from his head the Cows draw milk, and wearing his ves-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ture with their foot have drunk the water.\n 6Unripe in mind, in spirit undiscerning, I ask of these the Gods'\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0established places.\n \u00a0\u00a0High up above the yearling Calf the sages, to form a web, their\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0own seven threads have woven.\n 7Here, ignorant, I ask the wise who know it, as one who knows\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0not, for the sake of knowledge,\n \u00a0\u00a0What is That One, who in the Unborn's image hath stablished\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and fixed firm this world's six regions.\n 8The Mother gave the Sire his share of Order. With thought at\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0first she wedded him in spirit.\n \u00a0\u00a0She, coyly loth, was filled with dew prolific. With adoration\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0men approached to praise her.\n 9Yoked was the Mother to the boon Cow's car-pole; in humid\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0folds of cloud the infant rested.\n \u00a0\u00a0Then the Calf lowed and looked upon the Mother, the Cow\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0who wears all shapes in three directions.\n 10Bearing three mothers and three fathers, single he stood erect:\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0they never made him weary. p. a383\n \u00a0\u00a0On yonder heaven's high ridge they speak together in speech\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0not known to all, themselves all-knowing.\n 11Upon the five-spoked wheel revolving ever, whereon all crea-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0tures rest and are dependent,\n \u00a0\u00a0The axle, heavy-laden, is not heated: the nave from ancient\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0time remains unheated.\n 12They call him in the farther half of heaven the Sire five-footed,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0of twelve forms, wealthy in watery store.\n \u00a0\u00a0These others, later still, say that he takes his stand upon a seven-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0wheeled car, six-spoked, whose sight is clear.\n 13Formed with twelve spokes, too strong for age to weaken, this\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0wheel of during Order rolls round heaven.\n \u00a0\u00a0Herein established, joined in pairs together, seven hundred sons\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and twenty stand, O Agni.\n 14The wheel revolves, unwasting, with its felly: ten draw it, yoked\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0to the far-stretching car-pole.\n \u00a0\u00a0Girt by the region moves the eye of S\u016brya, on whom dependent\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0rest all living creatures.\n 15They told me these were males, though truly females. He who\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0hath eyes sees this, the blind discerns not.\n \u00a0\u00a0The son who is a sage hath comprehended: who knows this\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0rightly is his father's father.\n 16Of the co-born they call the seventh single-born: the six twin,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0pairs are called the Rishis, sons of Gods.\n \u00a0\u00a0Their good gifts sought of men are ranged in order due, and,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0various, form by form, move for their guiding Lord.\n 17Beneath the upper realm, above this lower, bearing her Calf at\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0foot, the Cow hath risen.\n \u00a0\u00a0Whitherward, to what place hath she departed? Where doth she\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0calve? Not in this herd of cattle.\n 18Who, that the father of this Calf discerneth beneath the upper\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0realm, above the lower,\n \u00a0\u00a0Showing himself a sage, may here declare him? Whence hath\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the godlike spirit had its rising?\n 19Those that come hitherward they call departing, those that depart\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0they call directed hither.\n \u00a0\u00a0Whatever ye have made, Indra and Soma! steeds draw, as' twere,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0yoked to the region's car-pole.\n 20Two Birds with fair wings, knit with bonds of friendship, in the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0same sheltering tree have found a refuge, p. a384\n \u00a0\u00a0One of the twain eats the sweet Fig-tree's berry: the other, eat-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ing not, regardeth only.\n 21The tree whereon the fine Birds eat the sweetness, where they\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0all rest and procreate their offspring\n \u00a0\u00a0Upon the top, they say the fruit is luscious: none gaineth it who\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0knoweth not the Father.\n 22Where the fine birds hymn ceaselessly their portion of life eter-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0nal, and the sacred synods.\n \u00a0\u00a0There is the Universe's Guard and Keeper who, wise hath\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0entered into me the simple.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 9: Hymn 9: Enunciation of mystico-theological and cosmological doctrine","type":"page"}