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Post by Anne Terri on Aug 20, 2011 10:50:47 GMT 1
RIGVEDA –BOOK 5-HYMN VII. Agni.
1. OFFER to Agni, O my friends, your seemly food, your seemly praise; To him supremest o’er the folk, the Son of Strength, the mighty Lord: 2 Him in whose presence, when they meet in full assembly, men rejoice; Even him whom worthy ones inflame, and living creatures bring to life. 3 When we present to him the food and sacrificial gifts of men, He by the might of splendour grasps the holy Ordinance's rein. 4 He gives a signal in the night even to him who is afar, When he, the Bright, unchanged by eld, consumes the sovrans of the wood. 5 He in whose service on the ways they offer up their drops of sweat, On him is their high kin have they mounted, as ridges on the earth. 6 Whom, sought of many, mortal man hath found to be the Stay of all; He who gives flavour to our food, the home of every man that lives. 7 Even as a herd that crops the grass he shears the field and wilderness, With flashing teeth and beard of gold, deft with his unabated might. 8 For him, to whom, bright as an axe he, as to Atri, hath flashed forth, Hath the well-bearing Mother borne, producing when her time is come. 9 Agni to whom the oil is shed by him thou lovest to support, Bestow upon these mortals fame and splendour and intelligence. 10 Such zeal hath he, resistless one: he gained the cattle given by thee. Agni, may Atri overcome the Dasyus who bestow no gifts, subdue the men who give no food.
Bibliography: Rigveda, translated by Ralph Thomas Hotchkin Griffith, (1896)
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