{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv05012.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv05012.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv05012.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. To Agni, lofty Asura, meet for worship, Steer of eternal Law, my prayer I offer;\n I bring my song directed to the Mighty like pure oil for his mouth at sacrifices.\n 2 Mark the Law, thou who knowest, yea, observe it: send forth the full streams of eternal Order.\n I use no sorcery with might or falsehood the sacred Law of the Red Steer I follow.\n 3 How hast thou, follower of the Law eternal, become the knower of a new song, Agni?\n The God, the Guardian of the seasons, knows me: the Lord of him who won this wealth I know not.\n 4 Who, Agni, in alliance with thy foeman, what splendid helpers won for them their riches?\n Agni, who guard the dwelling-place of falsehood? Who are protectors of the speech of liars?\n 5 Agni, those friends of thine have turned them from thee: gracious of old, they have become ungracious.\n They have deceived themselves by their own speeches, uttering wicked words against the righteous.\n 6 He who pays sacrifice to thee with homage, O Agni, keeps the Red Steer's Law eternal;\n Wide is his dwelling. May the noble offspring of Nahu\u1e63a who wandered forth come hither.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 5: HYMN XII. Agni.","type":"page"}