{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av20049.htm","path":"hin/av/av20049.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av20049.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1When voices, fain to win mid-air, ascended to the Mighty One,\n \u00a0\u00a0The vigorous God was filled with joy.\n 2Praise with the voice the Mighty, praise the awful with the voice:\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0in heaven\n \u00a0\u00a0He, the most bounteous, hath been glad.\n 3Praise with the voice the Mighty: he rules in each realm. In\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0transport he\n \u00a0\u00a0Hath set upon the sacred grass.\n 4As cows low to their calf in stalls, so with our songs we glorify\n \u00a0\u00a0This Indra, even your wondrous God who checks attack, who\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0joys in the delightful juice.\n 5Celestial, bounteous Giver, God, with power and might, rich,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0mountain-like, in precious things.\n \u00a0\u00a0Him soon we see for foodful booty rich in kine, brought\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0hundredfold and thousandfold.\n 6I crave of thee that hero strength\u2014that thou mayst first regard\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0this prayer\n \u00a0\u00a0Wherewith thou helpest Bhrigu and the Yatis and Praskanva\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0when the prize was staked.\n 7Wherewith thou sentest mighty waters to the sea\u2014Indra, that\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0manly strength of thine.\n \u00a0\u00a0For ever unattainable is this power of him to whom the worlds\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0have cried aloud.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 20: Hymn 49","type":"page"}