{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av20094.htm","path":"hin/av/av20094.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av20094.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n1May Sovran Indra come to the carousal, he who by holy Law is\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0strong and active.\n \u00a0\u00a0The overcomer of all conquering forces with his great bull-like\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0power that hath no limit.\n 2Firm-seated is thy car, thy steeds are docile: thy hand, O King,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0holds, firmly grasped, the thunder.\n \u00a0\u00a0On thy fair path, O Lord of men, come quickly: we will increase\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thy power when thou hast drunken.\n 3Let strong and mighty steeds who bear this mighty Indra, the\n \u00a0\u00a0Lord of men, whose arm wields thunder,\n \u00a0\u00a0Bring unto us, as shares of our banquet, the Bull of conquering\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0might, of real vigour.\n 4So like a bull thou rushest to the Lord who loves the trough,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the Sage, the prop of vigour, in the vat.\n \u00a0\u00a0Prepare thine energies, collect them in thyself: be for our profit\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0as the Master of the wise.\n 5May precious treasures come to us,\u2014 so will I pray. Come to the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0votary's gift offered with beauteous laud.\n \u00a0\u00a0Thou art the Lord, as such sit on this holy grass: thy vessels\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0are inviolate as Law commands.\n 6Far went our earliest invocations of the Gods, and won us\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0glories that can never be surpassed.\n \u00a0\u00a0They who could not ascend the ship of sacrifice sink down in\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0desolation, trembling with alarm.\n 7So be the others, evil-hearted, far away, whose horses difficult to\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0harness have been yoked.\n \u00a0\u00a0Here in advance man stand anear to offer gifts, by whom full\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0many a work that brings reward is done.\n 8He firmly fixed the plains and mountains as they shook. Dyaus\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thundered forth and made the air's mid-region quake.\n \u00a0\u00a0He stays apart the two confronting bowls; he sings lauds in the\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0potent Soma's joy when he hath drunk.\n 9I bear this deftly-fashioned goad of thine wherewith thou,\n \u00a0\u00a0Maghavan, shalt break the strikers with the hoof. p. 342\n \u00a0\u00a0At the libation mayst thou be well satisfied. Partake the juice,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0partake the banquet, Bounteous Lord.\n 10O Much-invoked, may we subdue all famine and evil want with\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0store of grain and cattle.\n \u00a0\u00a0May we allied, as first in rank, with princes, obtain possessions\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0by our own exertions.\n 11Brihaspati protect us from the rearward, and from above, and\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0from below, from sinners!\n \u00a0\u00a0May Indra from the front and from the centre, as friend to\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0friends, vouchsafe us room and freedom.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 20: Hymn 94","type":"page"}