{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv01066.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv01066.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv01066.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. LIKE the Sun's glance, like wealth of varied sort, like breath which is the life, like one's own son,\n Like a swift bird, a cow who yields her milk, pure and refulgent to the wood he speeds.\n 2 He offers safety like a pleasant home, like ripened corn, the Conqueror of men.\n Like a Seer lauding, famed among the folk; like a steed friendly he vouchsafes us power.\n 3 With flame insatiate, like eternal might; caring for each one like a dame at home;\n Bright when he shines forth, whitish mid the folk, like a car, gold-decked, thundering to the fight.\n 4 He strikes with terror like a dart shot forth, e\u2019en like an archer's arrow tipped with flame;\n Master of present and of future life, the maidens\u2019 lover and the matrons\u2019 Lord.\n 5 To him lead all your ways: may we attain the kindled God as cows their home at eve.\n He drives the flames below as floods their swell: the rays rise up to the fair place of heaven.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda Book 1: HYMN LXVI. Agni.","type":"page"}