1. AGNI I first invoke for our prosperity; I call on Mitra, Varuna, to aid us here. I call on Night who gives rest to all moving life; I call…

1. Ye who observe this day be with us even thrice: far-stretching is you bounty, Asvins and your course. To you, as to a cloak in winter, we cleave close:…

1. Come, fain for booty let us seek to Indra: yet more shall he increase his care that guides us. Will not the Indestructible endow us with perfect knowledge of…

1. I WILL declare the manly deeds of Indra, the first that he achieved, the Thunder-wielder. He slew the Dragon, then disclosed the waters, and cleft the channels of the…

1. Thou, Agni, wast the earliest Angiras, a Seer; thou wast, a God thyself, the Gods' auspicious Friend. After thy holy ordinance the Maruts, sage, active through wisdom, with their…

1. WE seeking strength with Soma-drops fill full your Indra like a well, Most liberal, Lord of Hundred Powers, 2. Who lets a hundred of the pure, a thousand of…

1. O SOMA DRINKER, ever true, utterly hopeless though we be, Do thou, O Indra, give us hope of beauteous horses and of kine, In thousands, O most wealthy One.…

1. THERE where the broad-based stone raised on high to press the juices out, O Indra, drink with eager thirst the droppings which the mortar sheds. 2. Where, like broad…

1. WITH worship will I glorify thee, Agni, like a long-tailed steed, Imperial Lord of sacred rites. 2. May the far-striding Son of Strength, bringer of great felicity, Who pours…

1. O WORTHY of oblation, Lord of prospering powers, assume thy robes, And offer this our sacrifice. 2. Sit ever to be chosen, as our Priest, most youthful, through our…