{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av20063.htm","path":"hin/av/av20063.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av20063.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1We will, with Indra, and all Gods to aid us, bring these existing.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0worlds into subjection.\n \u00a0\u00a0Our sacrifice, our bodies, and our offspring, let Indra form to-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0gether with the \u0100dityas.\n 2With the \u0100dityas with the band of Maruts, may Indra be pro-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0tector of our bodies;\n \u00a0\u00a0As when the Gods came, after they had slaughtered the Asuras,.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0keeping safe their godlike nature,\n 3Brought the Sun hitherward with mighty powers, and looked!\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0about them on their vigorous God-head.\n \u00a0\u00a0With this may we obtain strength God-appointed, and brave\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0sons gladden us through a hundred winters.\n 4He who alone bestoweth might on mortal man who offereth\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0gifts,\n \u00a0\u00a0The ruler of resistless power, is Indra, sure.\n 5When will he trample like a weed the man who hath no gift for\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0him?\n \u00a0\u00a0When verily will Indra hear our songs of praise?\n 6He who with Soma juice prepared among the many harbours.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thee,\n \u00a0\u00a0Verily Indra gains thereby tremendous might. p. 315\n 7Joy, mightiest Indra, known and marked, sprung most from\n \u00a0\u00a0Soma draughts, wherewith\n \u00a0\u00a0Thou smitest down the greedy fiend, for that we pray.\n 8Wherewith thou helpest Adhrigu, the great Dasagva, and the\n \u00a0\u00a0God\n \u00a0\u00a0Who stirs the sunlight, and Sea, for that we pray.\n 9Wherewith thou dravest forth like cars Sindhu and all the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0mighty floods.\n \u00a0\u00a0To go the way ordained by Law, for that we pray.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 20: Hymn 63","type":"page"}