{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv01147.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv01147.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv01147.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. How, Agni, have the radiant ones, aspiring, endued thee with the vigour of the living,\n So that on both sides fostering seed and offspring, the Gods may joy in Holy Law's fulfilment?\n 2 Mark this my speech, Divine One, thou, Most Youthful! offered to thee by him who gives most freely.\n One hates thee, and another sings thy praises: I thine adorer laud thy form, O Agni.\n 3 Thy guardian rays, O Agni, when they saw him, preserved blind M\u0101mateya from affliction.\n Lord of all riches, he preserved the pious the foes who fain would harm them did no mischief.\n 4 The sinful man who worships not, O Agni, who, offering not, harms us with double-dealing,\u2014\n Be this in turn to him a heavy sentence: may he distress himself by his revilings.\n 5 Yea, when a mortal knowingly, O Victor, injures with double tongue a fellow-mortal,\n From him, praised Agni! save thou him that lauds thee: bring us not into trouble and affliction.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda Book 1: HYMN CXLVII. Agni.","type":"page"}