{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av20093.htm","path":"hin/av/av20093.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av20093.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1May our hymns give thee great delight. Display thy bounty,\n \u00a0\u00a0Thunderer.\n \u00a0\u00a0Drive off the enemies of prayer.\n 2Crush with thy foot the niggard churls who bring no gifts.\n \u00a0\u00a0Might art thou:\n \u00a0\u00a0There is not one to equal thee.\n 3Thou art the Lord of Soma pressed, Soma unpressed is also\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thine,\n \u00a0\u00a0Thou art the Sovran of the folk.\n 4Swaying about the active Ones came nigh to Indra at his birth,\n \u00a0\u00a0And shared his great heroic might.\n 5Based upon strength and victory and power, O Indra is thy\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0birth.\n \u00a0\u00a0Thou, Mighty One, art strong indeed.\n 6Thou art the Vritra-slayer, thou, Indra, hast spread the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0firmament:\n \u00a0\u00a0Thou hast with might upheld the heavens.\n 7Thou, Indra, bearest in thine arms the lightning that accords\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0with thee,\n \u00a0\u00a0Whetting thy thunderbolt with might.\n 8Thou, Indra, art pre-eminent over all creatures in thy strength:\n \u00a0\u00a0Thou hast pervaded every place.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 20: Hymn 93","type":"page"}