{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av20088.htm","path":"hin/av/av20088.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av20088.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1Him who with might hath propped earth's ends, who sitteth in\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0threefold seat, Brihaspati, with thunder,\n \u00a0\u00a0Him of the pleasant tongue have ancient sages, deep thinking,.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0holy singers, set before them.\n 2Wild in their course, in well-marked wise rejoicing were they,.\n \u00a0\u00a0Brihaspati, who pressed around us\n \u00a0\u00a0Preserve, Brihaspati, the stall uninjured,r,this company's raining.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ever-moving birth-place.\n 3Brihaspati, from thy remotest distance have they sat down who\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0love the law eternal.\n \u00a0\u00a0For thee were dug wells springing from the mountain, which\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0murmuring round about pour streams of sweetness.\n 4Brihaspati, when first he had his being from mighty splendour in\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0supremest heaven.\n \u00a0\u00a0Strong, with his sevenfold mouth, with noise of thunder, with\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0his seven rays blew and dispersed the darkness.\n 5With the loud-shouting band who sang his praises, with thunder,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0he destroyed malignant Vala.\n \u00a0\u00a0Brihaspati thundering drave forth the cattle, the lowing cows\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0who make oblations ready.\n 6Serve we with sacrifices, gifts, and homage even thus the Steer\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0of all the Gods, the Father.\n \u00a0\u00a0Brihaspati, may we be lords of riches, with noble progeny and,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0store of heroes.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 20: Hymn 88","type":"page"}