Atharva-Veda Samhita/Book VII/Hymn 91 (96)
91 (96). To Indra: for aid.
[Atharvan.—cāndramasam (!). trāiṣṭubham.]
This and the two following hymns are wanting in Pāipp. This one (the comm. says, with 92 and 93 also) is used by Kāuç. (59. 7), with vi. 5 and 6, by one desiring a village; also (140. 6), with v. 3. 11 and vii. 86, to accompany an offering of butter in the indramahotsava; and it is reckoned to the abhaya gaṇa (note to 16. 8), and to the svastyayana gaṇa (note to 25. 36).
Translated: Henry, 37, 108; Griffith, i. 374.
1. Let Indra be well-saving, well-aiding with aids, very gracious, all-possessing; let him put down (bādh) hatred, let him make for us fearlessness; may we be lords of wealth in heroes.
This hymn and the following are two successive verses in RV. (x. 131. 6, 7, or vi. 47. 12, 13), and are also found together in VS. (xx. 51, 52), TS. (i. 7. 134-5), and MS. (iv. 12. 5). All these agree in leaving out the nas which disturbs the meter of c. Our pada-text agrees with that of RV. in both verses in falsely dividing svá॰vān, and the comm. explains the word correspondingly with dhanavān hitātmā vā.