{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv01077.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv01077.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv01077.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. How shall we pay oblation unto Agni? What hymn, Godloved, is said to him refulgent?\n Who, deathless, true to Law, mid men a herald, bringeth the Gods as best of sacrificers?\n 2 Bring him with reverence hither, most propitious in sacrifices, true to Law, the herald;\n For Agni, when he seeks the Gods for mortals, knows them full well and worships them in spirit.\n 3 For he is mental power, a man, and perfect; he is the bringer, friend-like, of the wondrous.\n The pious \u0100ryan tribes at sacrifices address them first to him who doeth marvels.\n 4 May Agni, foe-destroyer, manliest Hero, accept with love our hymns and our devotion.\n So may the liberal lords whose strength is strongest, urged by their riches, stir our thoughts with vigour.\n 5 Thus Agni J\u0101tavedas, true to Order, hath by the priestly Gotamas been lauded.\n May he augment in them splendour and vigour: observant, as he lists, he gathers increase.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda Book 1: HYMN LXXVII. Agni.","type":"page"}