{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av17001.htm","path":"hin/av/av17001.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av17001.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Vanquishing, overpowering, a conqueror, exceeding strong,\n \u00a0\u00a0Victorious, winner of the light, winner of cattle and of spoil,.\n \u00a0\u00a0Indra by name, adorable, I call: a long, long life be mine!\n 2Vanquishing etc.\n \u00a0\u00a0Indra by name, adorable I call: May I be dear to Gods.\n 3Vanquishing, etc.\n \u00a0\u00a0Indra by name, adorable, I call: may creatures love me well.\n 4Vanquishing, etc.\n \u00a0\u00a0Indra by name, adorable, I call: may cattle hold me dear.\n 5Vanquishing, etc.\n \u00a0\u00a0Indra by name, adorable, I call: may equals love me well.\n 6Rise up, O S\u016brya, rise thou up; with strength and splendour\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0rise on me.\n \u00a0\u00a0Let him who hates me be my thrall; let me not be a thrall to him.\n \u00a0\u00a0Manifold are thy great deeds, thine, O Vishnu.\n \u00a0\u00a0Sate us with cattle of all forms and colours: set me in happiness,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0in loftiest heaven.\n 7Rise up, O S\u016brya, rise thou up; with strength and splendour rise\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0on me.\n \u00a0\u00a0Make me the favourite of all, of those I see and do not see.\n \u00a0\u00a0Manifold are thy great deeds, thine, O Vishnu.\n 8Let not the fowlers who are standing ready injure thee in the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0flood, within the waters.\n \u00a0\u00a0Ascend this heaven, leaving each curse behind thee, Favour us:\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0let thy gracious love attend us.\n \u00a0\u00a0Manifold are thy great deeds, thine, O Vishnu.\n 9Do thou, O Indra, for our great good fortune, with thine in-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0violable rays protect us.\n \u00a0\u00a0Manifold are thy great deeds, thine, O Vishnu.\n 10Be thou most gracious unto us, Indra, with favourable aid,\n \u00a0\u00a0Rising to heaven's third sphere, invoked with song to quaff the\n \u00a0\u00a0Soma juice, loving thy home to make us blest. p. 171\n \u00a0\u00a0Manifold are thy great deeds, thine, O Vishnu.\n 11Thou art the vanquisher of all, O Indra, omniscient Indra, and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0invoked of many.\n \u00a0\u00a0Indra, send forth this hymn that fitly lauds thee. Favour us\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0let thy gracious love attend us.\n \u00a0\u00a0Manifold are thy great deeds, thine, O Vishnu.\n 12In heaven and on the earth thou art uninjured, none reach thy\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0greatness in the air's mid region.\n \u00a0\u00a0Increasing by inviolate devotion as such in heaven grant us pro-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0tection, Indra.\n \u00a0\u00a0Manifold are thy great deeds, thine, O Vishnu.\n 13Grant us protection, Indra, with that body of thine that is on\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0earth, in fire, in waters,\n \u00a0\u00a0That dwells within light-finding Pavamana, wherewith thou hast\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0pervaded air's mid region.\n \u00a0\u00a0Manifold are thy great deeds, thine, O Vishnu.\n 14Indra, exalting thee with prayer, imploring, Rishis have sat them\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0down in holy Session.\n \u00a0\u00a0Manifold are thy great deeds, thine, O Vishnu,\n 15Round Trita, round the spring with thousand currents thou\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0goest, round the light-finding assembly.\n \u00a0\u00a0Manifold are thy great deeds, thine, O Vishnu.\n 16Thou guardest well the four celestial regions, pervading heaven,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and earth with light and splendour.\n \u00a0\u00a0Thou givest help to all these living creatures, and, knowing,.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0followest the path of Order.\n \u00a0\u00a0Manifold are thy great deed, thine, O Vishnu.\n 17With five thou sendest heat: with one removing the curse thou\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0comest in bright sunshine hither.\n \u00a0\u00a0Manifold are thy great deeds, thine, O Vishnu.\n 18Indra art thou, Mahendra thou, thou art the world, the Lord of\n \u00a0\u00a0Life.\n \u00a0\u00a0To thee is sacrifice performed: worshippers offer gifts to thee.\n \u00a0\u00a0Manifold are thy great deeds, thine, O Vishnu.\n 19What is based on what is not: the present lies on that which is..\n \u00a0\u00a0Present on future is imposed and future on the present based.\n \u00a0\u00a0Manifold are thy great deeds, thine, O Vishnu.\n \u00a0\u00a0Sate us with cattle of all varied colour. Set me in happiness, in\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0loftiest heaven. p. 172\n 20Bright art thou, and refulgent: as thou shinest with splendour\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0so I fain would shine with splendour.\n 21Lustre art thou, illuming: as thou glowest with lustre so I too\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0would shine with cattle, with all the lustre of a Br\u0101hman's\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0station.\n 22Glory to him when rising, when ascending! Glory to him when\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0he hath reached the zenith!\n \u00a0\u00a0To him far-shining, him the self-refulgent, to him the Sovran\n \u00a0\u00a0Lord and King be glory!\n 23Worship to him when he is turning westward, to him when set-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ting, and when set be worship!\n \u00a0\u00a0To him far-shining, him the self-refulgent, to him the Sovran\n \u00a0\u00a0Lord and King be glory!\n 24With all his fiery fervour this \u0100ditya hath gone up on high,\n \u00a0\u00a0Giving my foes into my hand. Let me not by my foeman's prey.\n \u00a0\u00a0Manifold are thy great deeds, thine, O Vishnu.\n \u00a0\u00a0Sate us with cattle of all varied colours. Set me in happiness, in\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0loftiest heaven.\n 25Thou for our weal, \u0100ditya, hast mounted thy ship with hundred\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0oars.\n \u00a0\u00a0Thou hast transported me to day: so bear me evermore to\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0night.\n 26Thou for our weal, O S\u016brya, hast mounted thy ship with hundred\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0oars.\n \u00a0\u00a0Thou hast transported me to night: so bear me evermore to\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0day.\n 27Encompassed by Praj\u0101pati's devotion as shield, with Kasyapa's\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0bright light and splendour,\n \u00a0\u00a0Reaching old age, may I made strong and mighty live through a\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thousand years with happy fortune.\n 28Compassed am I with prayer, my shield and armour; compassed\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0with Kasyapa's bright light and splendour.\n \u00a0\u00a0Let not shafts reach me shot from heaven against me, nor those\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0sent forth by men for my destruction.\n 29Guarded am I by Order and the Seasons, protected by the past\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and by the future.\n \u00a0\u00a0Let not distress, yea, let not Death come nigh me: with water\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0of my speech have I o'erwhelmed them.\n 30On every side let Agni guard and keep me; the rising Sun drive\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0off the snares of Mrityu! p. 173\n \u00a0\u00a0Let brightly flushing Mornings, firm-set mountains, and lives a\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thousand be with me united.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 17: Hymn 1: A prayer to Indra, Identified with Vishnu and the Sun, for the love of Gods, men, and beasts, general protection and prosperity, and all earthly and heavenly blessings","type":"page"}