{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv05007.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv05007.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv05007.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. OFFER to Agni, O my friends, your seemly food, your seemly praise;\n To him supremest o\u2019er the folk, the Son of Strength, the mighty Lord:\n 2 Him in whose presence, when they meet in full assembly, men rejoice;\n Even him whom worthy ones inflame, and living creatures bring to life.\n 3 When we present to him the food and sacrificial gifts of men,\n He by the might of splendour grasps the holy Ordinance's rein.\n 4 He gives a signal in the night even to him who is afar,\n When he, the Bright, unchanged by eld, consumes the sovrans of the wood.\n 5 He in whose service on the ways they offer up their drops of sweat,\n On him is their high kin have they mounted, as ridges on the earth.\n 6 Whom, sought of many, mortal man hath found to be the Stay of all;\n He who gives flavour to our food, the home of every man that lives.\n 7 Even as a herd that crops the grass he shears the field and wilderness,\n With flashing teeth and beard of gold, deft with his unabated might.\n 8 For him, to whom, bright as an axe he, as to Atri, hath flashed forth,\n Hath the well-bearing Mother borne, producing when her time is come.\n 9 Agni to whom the oil is shed by him thou lovest to support,\n Bestow upon these mortals fame and splendour and intelligence.\n 10 Such zeal hath he, resistless one: he gained the cattle given by thee.\n Agni, may Atri overcome the Dasyus who bestow no gifts, subdue the men who give no food.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 5: HYMN VII. Agni.","type":"page"}