{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv04009.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv04009.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv04009.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. AGNI, show favour: great art thou who to this pious man art come,\n To seat thee on the sacred grass.\n 2 May he the Immortal, Helper, bard to be deceived among mankind,\n Become the messenger of all.\n 3 Around the altar is he led, welcome Chief Priest at solemn rites,\n Or as the Potar sits him down.\n 4 Agni in fire at sacrifice, and in the house as Lord thereof,\n And as a Brahman takes his seat.\n 5 Thou comest as the guide of folk who celebrate a sacrifice,\n And to oblations brought by men.\n 6 Thou servest as his messenger whose sacrifice thou lovest well,\n To bear the mortal's gifts to heaven.\n 7 Accept our solemn rite; be pleased, A\u1e45giras, with our sacrifice:\n Give ear and listen to our call.\n 8 May thine inviolable car, wherewith thou guardest those who give,\n Come near to us from every side.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 4: HYMN IX. Agni.","type":"page"}