This Dawn, first of many and radiant to look on, debars from her light neither kinsman nor stranger. Proud of her pure form, she shining brightly, spurns not be great nor the humble. She seeks man like a maiden without a brother and ascends her car as if to gather riches. She shining forth and well-ornamented, bares her beauty like a loving woman to her husbands. The sister Night relinquishes her place to her elder sister. The Dawn having seen Night departed, decks herself with shining rays of the Sun, like a girl going to keep a date in a festival. Of these sisters of whom one has just now vanished, a later one succeeds the former in the course of days. So, may these Dawns shine wealth on us as of yore and bring us a happy day.

Ask of him, the God Agni, he comes, he know it, he, the wise is implored. In him are commands, in him are counsels and requests. He is the Lord of power and strength. All men ask him not as seekers of truth, and yet fewer learn. The Sage has all things in his grasp, he goes with his mind composed, for he knows the first word and the last. To him ascend these oblations, these prayers reach him like speedy mares. He listens to my prayers, all conquering, all-speeding, perfector of sacrifice, the Child, ever helpful, he has assumed great powers. Whatever he meets, he grasps and marches on, and thus newly born advances farther straight way. He bestows joy and pleasure to the weary, accepting their gifts as he comes. He, the true lord, is a thing of flood and forest. He has been laid on the highest at the alter. He, the wise, knows the Law and directs the mortal men to right action.

I laud Agni, the wise seven rayed who pervades all the regions, the higher, the middle and the lower ones. Seated in the lap of his parents and pervading all the luminous realms of heaven and all objects he is perfect. He is a great sustainer grand and undecaying. He keeps his feet firm over the world, his red tongues lick the clouds in the heaven. Like the milch-kine, the Earth and Heaven move together towards their common child and fully nourish it. They measure out and uphold the path free from all that is to be avoided, the path that is to be traversed. The learned men escort him to his dwelling, protecting him the ever youthful. They learned men escort him to his dwelling, protecting him the ever youthful. They turn him with reverence and are shown the Sun. He is accessible and inspirer of all, the great and the small alike.

I will declare the mighty deeds of Vishnu, of him who measured out the earthly realms and propped the heavens, accomplishing all in three mighty strides. For this mighty deed is Vishnu acclaimed. He roams the mountains, like a wild beast, wandering as he will, he in whose three mighty paces are the three worlds. Let my strides who dwells the mountains, to him who with triple stride has measured out these far spread regions. Him whose three paces are filled with such a sweetness, imperishable, the cause of joy. He alone verily sustains the three-the Earth, the Heaven, and all the living beings. May I attain to his glorious abode, where men devoted to Gods live in bliss, where close to the Strider, in Vishnu’s footstep, springs the well, pure and sweet.

O for your abode, where dwell the oxen ever fresh and possessed of many horns, for there shines down upon the world, from the highest, the Hero of wide strides!