{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv01189.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv01189.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv01189.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. BY goodly paths lead us to riches, Agni, God who knowest every sacred duty.\n Remove the sin that makes us stray and wander. most ample adoration will we bring thee.\n 2 Lead us anew to happiness, O Agni; lead us beyond all danger and affliction.\n Be unto us a wide broad ample castle bless, prosper on their way our sons and offspring.\n 3 Far from us, Agni, put thou all diseases let them strike lauds that have no saving Agni.\n God, make our home again to be a blessing, with all the Immortal Deities, O Holy.\n 4 Preserve us, Agni, with perpetual succour, refulgent in the dwelling which thou lovest.\n O Conqueror, most youthful, let no danger touch him who praises thee to-day or after.\n 5 Give not us up a prey to sin, O Agni, the greedy enemy that brings us trouble;\n Not to the fanged that bites, not to the toothless: give not us up, thou Conqueror, to the spoiler.\n 6 Such as thou art, born after Law, O Agni when lauded give protection to our bodies,\n From whosoever would reproach or injure: for thou, God, rescuest from all oppression.\n 7 Thou, well discerning both these classes, comest to men at early morn, O holy Agni.\n Be thou obedient unto man at evening, to be adorned, as keen, by eager suitors.\n 8 To him have we addressed our pious speeches, I, M\u0101na's son, to him victorious Agni.\n May we gain countless riches with the sages. May we find strengthening food in full abundance.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda Book 1: HYMN CLXXXIX. Agni.","type":"page"}