{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av13003.htm","path":"hin/av/av13003.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av13003.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1He who engendered these, the earth and heaven, who made the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0worlds the mantle that he weareth,\n \u00a0\u00a0In whom abide the six wide-spreading regions through which the\n \u00a0\u00a0Bird's keen vision penetrateth,\n \u00a0\u00a0This God is wroth offended by the sinner who wrongs the\n \u00a0\u00a0Br\u0101hman who hath gained this knowledge\n \u00a0\u00a0Agitate him, O Rohita; destroy him: entangle in thy snares the\n \u00a0\u00a0Br\u0101man's tyrant.\n 2He from whom winds blow pure in ordered season, from whom\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the seas flow forth in all directions, p. 121\n \u00a0\u00a0This God, etc.\n 3He who takes life away, he who bestows it; from whom comes\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0breath to every living creature,\n \u00a0\u00a0This God, etc.\n 4Who with the breath he draws sates earth and heaven, with\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0expiration fills the ocean's belly,\n \u00a0\u00a0This God, etc.\n 5In whom Vir\u0101j, Praj\u0101pati, Parameshthin, Agni Vaisv\u0101nara abide\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0with Pankti,\n \u00a0\u00a0He who hath taken to himself the breathing of the Supreme, the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0vigour of the Highest,\n \u00a0\u00a0This God, etc.\n 6On whom rest six expenses and five regions, four waters, and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0three syllables of worship,\n \u00a0\u00a0He who hath looked between both spheres in anger,\n \u00a0\u00a0This God, etc.\n 7He who, consuming food, became its master, the Lord of Prayer,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the Regent of Devotion,\n \u00a0\u00a0The world's Lord, present and to be hereafter,\n \u00a0\u00a0This God, etc.\n 8He who metes out the thirteenth month, constructed with days\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and nights, containing thirty members,\n \u00a0\u00a0This God, etc.\n 9Dark the descent; the strong-winged birds are golden: they fly\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0aloft to heaven, enrobed in waters.\n \u00a0\u00a0They have come hither from the seat of Order,\n \u00a0\u00a0This God, etc.\n 10What silver. Kasyapa, thou hast refulgent, what brightly-shining\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0lotus-flower collected,\n \u00a0\u00a0Wherein are gathered seven Suns together,\n \u00a0\u00a0This God, etc.\n 11In front the Brihat-S\u0101man is his mantle, and from behind\n \u00a0\u00a0Rathantara enfolds him,\n \u00a0\u00a0Ever with care robing themselves in splendour.\n \u00a0\u00a0This God, etc.\n 12One of his wings was Brihat, and the other Rathantarr., vigorous\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0with one same purpose,\n \u00a0\u00a0What time the Gods gave Rohita his being.\n \u00a0\u00a0This God, etc. p. 122\n 13At evening he is Varuna and Agni, ascending in the morning he\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0is Mitra.\n \u00a0\u00a0As Savitar, he moves through air's mid region, as Indra warms-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the heavens from the centre.\n \u00a0\u00a0This God, etc.\n 14This gold-hued Harisa's wings, soaring to heaven spread o'er a\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thousand days' continued journey.\n \u00a0\u00a0Supporting all the Gods upon his bosom, he goes his way behol-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ding every creature.\n \u00a0\u00a0This God, etc.\n 15This is the God who dwells-within the waters, the thousand-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0rooted, many-powered Atri,\n \u00a0\u00a0He who brought all this world into existence.\n \u00a0\u00a0This God; etc.\n 16With flying feet his tawny coursers carry the bright God through,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the sky, aglow with splendour.\n \u00a0\u00a0Whose limbs uplifted fire and heat the heavens: hither he shines-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0with beams of golden colour.\n \u00a0\u00a0This God, etc.\n 17He beside whom his bay steeds bear the \u0100dityas, by whom as\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0sacrifice go many knowing.\n \u00a0\u00a0The sole light shining spread through various places.\n \u00a0\u00a0This God, etc.\n 18This 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 \u00a0\u00a0This God, etc.\n 19Eight times attached the potent Courser draws it, Sire of the\n \u00a0\u00a0Gods, father of hymns and praises.\n \u00a0\u00a0So M\u0101tarisvan, measuring in spirit the thread of Order, purifies\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0all regions.\n \u00a0\u00a0This God, etc.\n 20The thread that goes through all celestial quarters within the\n \u00a0\u00a0G\u0101yatri, womb of life eternal.\n \u00a0\u00a0This God, etc.\n 21There are the settings, three the upward risings, three are the-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0spaces, yea, and three the heavens.\n \u00a0\u00a0We know thy triple place of birth, O Agni, we know the deities''\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0triple generations. p. 123\n 22He who, as soon as born, laid broad earth open, and set the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ocean in the air's mid-region, This God, etc.\n 23Thou, Agni, kind with lights and mental powers, hast up in\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0heaven shone as the Sun, enkindled.\n \u00a0\u00a0The Maruts, sons of Prisni, sang his praises what time the Gods\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0gave Rohita his being. This God, etc.\n 24Giver of breath, giver of strength and vigour, he whose com-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0mandment all the Gods acknowledge,\n \u00a0\u00a0He who is Lord of this, of man and cattle, This God, etc.\n 25The single-footed hath outstepped the biped, the biped overtakes\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the triple-footed.\n \u00a0\u00a0The quadruped hath wrought when bipeds called him, standing\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and looking on the five collected.\n \u00a0\u00a0This God is wroth offended by the sinner that wrongs the\n \u00a0\u00a0Br\u0101hman who hath gained this knowledge.\n \u00a0\u00a0Agitate him, O Rohita; destroy him: entangle in thy snares the\n \u00a0\u00a0Br\u0101hman's tyrant.\n 26Born is the darksome Mother's Son, the whitely shining Calf of\n \u00a0\u00a0Night.\n \u00a0\u00a0He, Rohita, ascendeth up to heaven, hath mounted to the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0heights.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 13: Hymn 3: A glorification of Rohita. with a malediction on the man who wrongs a Br\u0101hman","type":"page"}