Atharva Veda · 119 of 724

HYMN XXII

A benediction on a newly consecrated king 1. Exalt and strengthen this my Prince, O Indra, Make him sole    lord and leader of the people.   Scatter his foes, deliver all his rivals into his hand in struggles    for precedence. 2. Give him a share in village, kine, and horses, and leave his    enemy without a portion.   Let him as King be head and chief of Princes, Give up to him,   O Indra, every foeman. 3. Let him be treasure-lord of goodly treasures, let him as King be    master of the people.   Grant unto him great power and might, O Indra, and strip his    enemy of strength and vigour. 4. Like milch-kine yielding milk for warm libations, pour, Heaven    and Earth! on him full many a blessing.   May he as King be Indra’s well-beloved, the darling of the kine,    the plants, the cattle. 5. I join in league with thee victorious Indra, with whom men    conquer and are ne’er defeated.   He shall make thee the folk’s sole lord and leader, shall make    thee highest of all human rulers. 6. Supreme art thou, beneath thee are thy rivals, and all, O King,    who were thine adversaries.   Sole lord and leader and allied with Indra, bring, conqueror, thy    foremen’s goods and treasures. 7. Consume, with lion aspect, all their hamlets, with tiger aspect,    drive away thy foemen.   Sole lord and leader and allied with Indra, seize, conqueror,    thine enemies’ possessions.