Rig Veda

Mandal - 1 (Part - 1)

HYMN 147. Agni

1

How, Agni, have the radiant ones, aspiring, endued thee with the vigour of the living,
So that on both sides fostering seed and offspring, the Gods may joy in Holy Law's fulfilment?

2

Mark this my speech, Divine One, thou, Most Youthful! offered to thee by him who gives most
freely.
One hates thee, and another sings thy praises: I thine adorer laud thy form, O Agni.

3

Thy guardian rays, O Agni, when they saw him, preserved blind Mamateya from affliction.
Lord of all riches, he preserved the pious the foes who fain would harm them did no mischief.

4

The sinful man who worships not, O Agni, who, offering not, harms us with double-dealing,-
Be this in turn to him a heavy sentence may he distress himself by his revilings.

5

Yea, when a mortal knowingly, O Victor, injures with double tongue a fellow-mortal,