{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av20023.htm","path":"hin/av/av20023.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av20023.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Invoked to drink the Soma juice come with thy bay steeds,\n \u00a0\u00a0Thunder-armed!\n \u00a0\u00a0Come, Indra, hitherward, to me.\n 2Our priest is seated true to time; the grass is regularly strewn;\n \u00a0\u00a0The pressing-stones were set at morn.\n 3These prayers, O thou who bearest prayer, are offered. Seat\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thee on the grass.\n \u00a0\u00a0Hero, enjoy the offered cake.\n 4O Vritra-slayer, be thou pleased with these libations, with these\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0hymns,\n \u00a0\u00a0Song-loving Indra, with our lauds.\n 5Our hymns caress the Lord of Strength, vast, drinker of the\n \u00a0\u00a0Soma's juice, p. 283\n \u00a0\u00a0Indra, as mother-cows their calf.\n 6Delight thee with the juice we pour for thine own great\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0munificence:\n \u00a0\u00a0Yield not thy singer to reproach.\n 7We, Indra, dearly loving thee, bearing oblation, sing thee\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0hymns:\n \u00a0\u00a0Thou, Vasu, nearly lovest us.\n 8O thou to whom thy Bays are dear, loose not thy horses far\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0from us:\n \u00a0\u00a0Here glad thee, Indra, Lord Divine.\n 9May long-maned courses, dropping oil, bring thee on swift car\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0hitherward.\n \u00a0\u00a0Indra, to seat thee on the grass.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 20: Hymn 23","type":"page"}