{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av20027.htm","path":"hin/av/av20027.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av20027.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1If I, O Indra, were, like thee, the single sovran of all wealth.\n \u00a0\u00a0My worshipper should be rich in kine.\n 2I should be fain, O Lord of Might, to strengthen and enrich the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0sage,\n \u00a0\u00a0Were I the lord of herds of kine,\n 3To worshippers who press the juice thy goodness, Indra, is a\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0cow.\n \u00a0\u00a0Yielding in plenty kine and steeds.\n 4None is there, Indra, God or man, to hinder thy munificence,\n \u00a0\u00a0The wealth which, lauded, thou wilt give.\n 5The sacrifice made Indra strong when he unrolled the earth and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0made\n \u00a0\u00a0Himself a diaden in heaven.\n 6Thine aid we claim, O Indra, thine who after thou hast waxen\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0great.\n \u00a0\u00a0Hast won all treasures for thine own.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 20: Hymn 27","type":"page"}