{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av19024.htm","path":"hin/av/av19024.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av19024.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Do ye, O Br\u0101hmanaspati, invest for the royal sway this man.\n \u00a0\u00a0With that wherewith the Deities invested Savitar the God.\n 2Invest this Indra for long life, invest him for great princely\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0power,\n \u00a0\u00a0That I may lead him on to eld, that the man watch his\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0princedom long.\n 3Invest this Soma for long life, invest him for great hearing\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0power.\n \u00a0\u00a0That I may lead him on to eld, that he may watch o'er hearing\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0long.\n 4For us, surround him, cover him with splendour, give him long\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0life, and death when age removes him.\n \u00a0\u00a0This garment hath Brihaspati presented to Soma, to the King,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0to wrap about him.\n 5Advance to good old age: endue the mantle. Be thou our\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0heifers' guard from imprecation.\n \u00a0\u00a0Live thou a hundred full and plenteous autumns, and wrap thee\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0in prosperity of riches.\n 6Thou for weal hast clothed thee in this garment: thou hast\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0become our cows' sure guard from curses.\n \u00a0\u00a0Live thou a hundred full and plenteous autumns: then living,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0fair thyself, shalt deal forth treasures.\n 7In every need, in every fray we call, as friends, to succour us,\n \u00a0\u00a0Indra the mightiest of all.\n 8Gold-coloured, undecaying, blest with heroes, dwell, dying in\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0old age, with children round thee.\n \u00a0\u00a0This is the spoken word of Agni, Soma, Brihaspati and Savitar,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and Indra.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 19: Hymn 24: A benediction on a newly elected King","type":"page"}