{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av19056.htm","path":"hin/av/av19056.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av19056.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Thou art come hither from the world of Yama: thou, resolute,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0affectest men with rapture.\n \u00a0\u00a0Thou, Sleep, created in the Asura's dwelling, goest, well-know-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ing, with the solitary.\n 2At first the all-containing, depth beheld thee, ere Night was\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0born, when only Day existed.\n \u00a0\u00a0Thence hast thou come, thence, Sleep, hast thou come hither,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0concealing, deep within, all form and figure.\n 3Come from the Asuras in lofty, glory, he hath approached the\n \u00a0\u00a0Gods in search of greatness.\n \u00a0\u00a0Winners of heavenly light, the Three-and-Thirty endowed this\n \u00a0\u00a0Sleep with his supreme dominion.\n 4Of him nor Fathers nor the Gods have knowledge, the Gods\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0whose gentle talk is still about him.\n \u00a0\u00a0Urged by command of Varuna the \u0100dityas, Heroes, transported\n \u00a0\u00a0Sleep to Trita \u0100ptya.\n 5Thou whose severity hath reached ill-doers, and whose reward\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the good have gained in slumber,\n \u00a0\u00a0Delightest heaven with thy most lofty kinship, born from his\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0spirit who was worn and weary.\n 6Of old we know all places whence thou comest. O Sleep, we\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0know him who is here thy ruler.\n \u00a0\u00a0Protect us here illustrious with glory. Go, from afar, with\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0poisons, into distance.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 19: Hymn 56: A hymn to Sleep","type":"page"}