A benediction addressed to a newly elected King

Reading tools

Contents

Display

Soundscape

Focus mode

Listen

Offline

Save

Collection

1 min read 101 wordsCompare

Sacred Texts Hinduism
Book 6 Index
Buy this Book at Amazon.com

Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895], at sacred-texts.com

HYMN LXXXVII

A benediction addressed to a newly elected King

1Here art thou: I have chosen thee. Stand stedfast and immov-
   able.
  Let all the clans desire thee: let not thy kingdom fall away.
2Be even here: fall not away: be like a mountain unremoved.
  Stand stedfast here like Indra's self, and hold the kingship in
   the grasp.
3This man hath Indra stablished, made secure by constant sacri-
   fice.
  Soma, and Brāhmanaspati here present bless and comfort him!

Ask PRATIBHA about this text

Answers quote this scripture directly and show their sources.

Reflect on this passage

Only you can see these notes. They stay on this device.