{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv04013.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv04013.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv04013.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. AGNI hath looked, benevolently-minded, on the wealth-giving spring of radiant Mornings.\n Come, A\u015bvins, to the dwelling of the pious: S\u016brya the God is rising with his splendour.\n 2 Savitar, God, hath spread on high his lustre, waving his flag like a spoil-seeking hero.\n Their stablished way go Varu\u1e47a and Mitra, what time they make the Sun ascend the heaven.\n 3 Him whom they made to drive away the darkness, Lords of sure mansions, constant to their object,\n Him who beholds the universe, the Sun-God, seven strong and youthful Coursers carry onward.\n 4 Spreading thy web with mightiest Steeds thou comest, rending apart, thou God, the black-hued mantle.\n The rays of S\u016brya tremulously shining sink, like a hide, the darkness in the waters.\n 5 How is it that, unbound and not supported, he falleth not although directed downward?\n By what self power moves he? Who hath seen it? He guards the vault of heaven, a close-set pillar.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 4: HYMN XIII. Agni.","type":"page"}