{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv03009.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv03009.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv03009.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. WE as thy friends have chosen thee, mortals a God, to be our help,\n The Waters\u2019 Child, the blessed, the resplendent One, victorious and beyond compare.\n 2 Since thou delighting in the woods hast gone unto thy mother streams,\n Not to be scorned, Agni, is that return of thine when from afar thou now art here.\n 3 O'er pungent smoke host thou prevailed, and thus art thou benevolent.\n Some go before, and others round about thee sit, they in whose friendship thou hast place.\n 4 Him who had passed beyond his foes, beyond continual pursuits, Him the unerring Ones, observant, found in floods, couched like a lion in his lair.\n 5 Him wandering at his own free will, Agni here hidden from our view,\n Him M\u0101tari\u015bvan brought to us from far away produced by friction, from the Gods.\n 6 O Bearer of Oblations, thus mortals received thee from the Gods,\n Whilst thou, the Friend of man, guardest each sacrifice with thine own power, Most Youthful One.\n 7 Amid thy wonders this is good, yea, to the simple is it clear,\n When gathered round about thee, Agni, lie the herds where thou art kindled in the morn.\n 8 Offer to him who knows fair rites, who burns with purifying glow,\n Swift envoy, active, ancient, and adorable: serve ye the God attentively.\n 9 Three times a hundred Gods and thrice a thousand, and three times ten and nine have worshipped Agni,\n For him spread sacred grass, with oil bedewed him, and stablished him as Priest and Sacrificer.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 3: HYMN IX.","type":"page"}