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Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
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Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
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O Agni, beloved of many, people invoke you in their homes as most famed and wonderous one. They call on you, the bearer of oblations whose hair is flames.

I invoke Agni for you with this my reverent song, the son of strength, beloved, the wisest envoy, immortal, adored with oblations, the messenger of all.

We call on Agni, the immortal messenger, envoy and representative of all. He yokes his two ruddy steeds, all cherishing. He comes riding fast when invoked properly and reverently.

Let Agni be invoked and worshipped well. Let him be invited reverently. Then has the sacrifice proper end and happy performance and rich boon for the sacrificer.

O Agni, son of strength, all-knowing, lord of kine and wealth, grant us great riches. O Jatavedas.

O Agni, brilliant, wise, good, worthy of laud with our hymns, shine on us, O of many forms, shine on us wealth.

O radiant one, shining by day, by night and morning, burn the wicked with your blazing flames, you whose teeth are sharp like the bolt.

O adorable Agni, bring us bliss, may the sacrifice and the gifts bring us bliss, may our songs of praise bring us bliss, O invoked Agni!

The determined mind wherewith you subdue the foes in the war, show us that, that with which you conquer the enemy. May our prayers bring us bliss.

O Agni, wherewith you conquer the foe in the battle, therewith slacken the strings and destroy the bows of the mighty enemy. May we vanquish the foes with your aid.

I recognize Agni, the good lord of home, the fire to which the kine return, whom the coursers seek as their home. Grant abundant food to those who are your devotees.

I laud god Agni, to whom the milch-kine return in herds, to whom the princes of royal birth come, to whom the fleet-footed coursers come. Grant abundant food to your devotees.

O pleasurable god Agni, you pour ghee within your mouth with both the ladles. So fill us also full with riches, O lord of might. Grant abundant food to your devotees.

Today we bring to offer you, O Agni, the things dear to you like a disciplined horse with reverence.

O Agni, you have ever been a great charioteer, full of pleasurable intellectual and physical strength, high sacrifice and proper judgement. So may we certainly be!

Being pleased with our hymns of praise come you unto us, O Agni, well disposed with your various aspects as does the Sun in the morning with all his rays.

 
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