{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv01148.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv01148.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv01148.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. WHAT M\u0101tari\u015bvan, piercing, formed by friction, Herald of all the Gods. in varied figure,\n Is he whom they have set mid human houses, gay-hued as light and shining forth for beauty.\n 2 They shall not harm the man who brings thee praises: such as I am, Agni my help approves me.\n All acts of mine shall they accept with pleasure, laudation from the singer who presents it.\n 3 Him in his constant seat men skilled in worship have taken and with praises have established.\n As, harnessed to a chariot fleet-foot horses, at his command let bearers lead him forward.\n 4 Wondrous, full many a thing he chews and crunches: he shines amid the wood with spreading brightness.\n Upon his glowing flames the wind blows daily, driving them like the keen shaft of an archer.\n 5 Him, whom while yet in embryo the hostile, both skilled and fain to harm, may never injure,\n Men blind and sightless through his splendour hurt not: his never-failing lovers have preserved him.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda Book 1: HYMN CXLVIII. Agni.","type":"page"}