{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av20091.htm","path":"hin/av/av20091.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av20091.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1This holy hymn sublime and seven-headed, sprung from eternal\n \u00a0\u00a0Law, our sire discovered.\n \u00a0\u00a0Ay\u0101sya, friend of all men, hath engendered the fourth hymn as\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0he sang his laud to Indra.\n 2Thinking aright, praising eternal Order, the sons of Dyaus the\n \u00a0\u00a0Asura, those heroes,\n \u00a0\u00a0Angirases, holding the rank of sages, first honoured sacrifice's\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0holy statute.\n 3Girt by his friends who cried with swanlike voices, bursting the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0stoney barriers of the prison,\n \u00a0\u00a0Brihaspati spake in thunder to the cattle, and uttered praise and.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0song when he had found them.\n 4Apart from one, away from two above him, he draye the kine\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0that stood in bonds of falsehood.\n \u00a0\u00a0Brihaspati, seeking light amid the darkness, draye forth the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0bright cows: three he made apparent.\n 5When he had cleft the lairs and western castle, he cut off three\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0from him who held the waters.\n \u00a0\u00a0Brihaspati discovered, while he thundered like Dyaus, the dawn,.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the sun, the cow, the lightning.\n 6As with a hand, so with his roaring Indra cleft Vala through,.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the guardian of the cattle.\n \u00a0\u00a0Seeking the milk-draught with sweat-shining comrades he stole:\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the Pani's kine and left him weeping.\n 7He with bright faithful friends, winners of booty, hath rent the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0milker of the cows asunder.\n \u00a0\u00a0Brihaspati with wild boars strong and mighty sweating with heat\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0hath gained a rich possession.\n 8They, longing for the kine, with faithful spirit incited with their\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0hymns the Lord of cattle.\n \u00a0\u00a0Brihaspati freed the radiant cows with comrades self-yoked,.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0averting shame from one another.\n 9In our assembly with auspicious praises exalting him who roareth.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0like a lion.\n \u00a0\u00a0May we in every fight where heroes conquer rejoice in strong.\n \u00a0\u00a0Brihaspati the victor.\n 10When he had won him strength of every nature and gone to\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0heaven and its most lofty mansions, p. 337\n \u00a0\u00a0Men praised Brihaspati the mighty, bringing the light within\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0their mouths from sundry places.\n 11Fulfil the prayer that begs for vital vigor: aid in your wonted\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0manner e'en the humble.\n \u00a0\u00a0Let all our foes be turned and driven backward. Hear this, O\n \u00a0\u00a0Heaven and Earth, ye all-producers.\n 12Indra with mighty strength hath cleft asunder the head of Arbuda\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the watery monster,\n \u00a0\u00a0Slain Ahi, and set free the Seven Rivers. O Heaven and Earth,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0with all the Gods, protect us.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 20: Hymn 91","type":"page"}