Atharva Veda · 670 of 724

HYMN LXXXIX

HYMN LXXXIX 1. Even as an archer shoots afar his arrow, offer the laud to him    with meet adornment.   Quell with your voice the wicked's voice, O sages, Singer, make   Indra rest beside the Soma. 2. Draw thy Friend to thee like a cow at milking: O singer, wake    up Indra as a lover.   Make thou the Hero haste to give us riches even as a vessel    filled brimful with treasure. 3. Why, Maghavan, do they call thee bounteous Giver? Quicken    me: thou, I hear, art he who quickens.   Sakra, let my intelligence be active, and bring us luck that finds    great wealth, O Indra. 4. Standing, in battle for their rights, together, the people, Indra,    in the fray invoke thee.   Him who brings gifts the Hero makes his comrade: with him    who pours no juice he seeks not friendship. 5. Whoso with plenteous juice for him expresses strong Somas as    much quickly-coming treasure,   For him he everthrows in early morning his swift well-weapon-    ed foes and slays the tyrant. 6. He unto whom we offer praises, Indra, Maghavan, who hath    joined to ours his wishes   Before him even afar the foe must tremble: low before him must    bow all human glories. 7. With thy fierce bolt, O God invoked of many, drive to a distance    from afar the foeman.   O Indra, give us wealth in corn and cattle, and make the singer's    prayer gain strength and riches. 8. Indra the swallower of strong libations with their thick residue,    the potent Somas,   He, Maghavan, will not restrict his bounty: he brings much    wealth unto the Soma-presser. 9. Yea, by superior play he wins advantage when he, a gambler,    piles his gains in season. p. 335   Celestial-natured, he o'erwhelms with riches the devotee who    keeps not back his money. 10. O much-invoked, may we subdue all famine and evil want with    store of grain and cattle.   May we allied, as first in rank, with princes,:obtain possessions    by our own exertion 11. Brihaspati protect us from the rearward, and from above and    from below, from sinners.   May Indra from the front and from the centre, as friend to    friends, vouchsafe us room and freedom.