{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av20008.htm","path":"hin/av/av20008.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av20008.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Drink as of old, and let the draught delight thee: hear thou my\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0prayer and let our songs exalt thee.\n \u00a0\u00a0Make the Sun visible, make food abundant: slaughter the foes,.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0pierce through and free the cattle.\n 2Come to us; they have called thee Soma-lover. Here is the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0pressed juice: drink thereof for rapture.\n \u00a0\u00a0Widely-capacious, pour it down within thee, and invocated hear\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0us like a father.\n 3Full is his chalice. Blessing! Like a pourer I have filled up the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0vessel for his drinking.\n \u00a0\u00a0Presented on the right, dear Soma juices have brought us Indra,.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0to rejoice him, hither.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 20: Hymn 8","type":"page"}