{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv01142.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv01142.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv01142.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. KINDLED, bring, Agni, Gods to-day for him who lifts the ladle up.\n Spin out the ancient thread for him who sheds, with gifts, the Soma juice.\n 2 Thou dealest forth, Tan\u016bnap\u0101t, sweet sacrifice enriched with oil,\n Brought by a singer such as I who offers gifts and toils for thee.\n 3 He wondrous, sanctifying, bright, sprinkles the sacrifice with mead,\n Thrice, Nar\u0101\u015ba\u1e41sa from the heavens, a God mid Gods adorable.\n 4 Agni, besought, bring hitherward Indra the Friend, the Wonderful,\n For this my hymn of praise, O sweet of tongue, is chanted forth to thee.\n 5 The ladle-holders strew trimmed grass at this well-ordered sacrifice;\n A home for Indra is adorned, wide, fittest to receive the Gods.\n 6 Thrown open be the Doors Divine, unfailing, that assist the rite,\n High, purifying, much-desired, so that the Gods may enter in.\n 7 May Night and Morning, hymned with lauds, united, fair to look upon,\n Strong Mothers of the sacrifice, seat them together on the grass.\n 8 May the two Priests Divine, the sage, the sweet-voiced lovers of the hymn,\n Complete this sacrifice of ours, effectual, reaching heaven to-day.\n 9 Let Hotr\u0101 pure, set among Gods, amid the Maruts Bh\u0101rat\u012b, I\u1e37\u0101, Sarasvat\u012b, Mah\u012b, rest on the grass, adorable.\n 10 May Tva\u1e63\u1e6dar send us genial dew abundant, wondrous, rich in gifts,\n For increase and for growth of wealth, Tva\u1e63\u1e6dar our kinsman and our Friend.\n 11 Vanaspati, give forth, thyself, and call the Gods to sacrifice.\n May Agni, God intelligent, speed our oblation to the Gods.\n 12 To V\u0101yu joined with P\u016b\u1e63an, with the Maruts, and the host of Gods,\n To Indra who inspires the hymn cry Glory! and present the gift.\n 13 Come hither to enjoy the gifts prepared with cry of Glory! Come,\n O Indra, hear their calling; they invite thee to the sacrifice.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda Book 1: HYMN CXLII. \u0100pr\u012bs.","type":"page"}