{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv06059.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv06059.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv06059.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. I WILL declare, while juices flow, the manly deeds that ye have done:\n Your Fathers, enemies of Gods, were smitten down, and, Indra-Agni, ye survive.\n 2 Thus, Indra-Agnip verily your greatness merits loftiest praise,\n Sprung from one common Father, brothers, twins are ye; your Mother is in every place.\n 3 These who delight in flowing juice, like fellow horses at their food,\n Indra and Agni, Gods armed with the thunderbolt, we call this day to come with help.\n 4 Indra and Agni, Friends of Law, served with rich gifts, your speech is kind\n To him who praises you while these libations flow: that man, O Gods, ye ne\u2019er consume.\n 5 What mortal understands, O Gods, Indra and Agni, this your way?\n One of you, yoking Steeds that move to every side, advances in your common car.\n 6 First, Indra-Agni, hath this Maid come footless unto those with feet.\n Stretching her head and speaking loudly with her tongue, she hath gone downward thirty steps.\n 7 E\u2019en now, O Indra-Agni, men hold in their arms and stretch their bows.\n Desert us not in this great fray, in battles for the sake of kine.\n 8 The foeman's sinful enmities, Indra and Agni, vex me sore.\n Drive those who hate me far away, and keep them distant from the Sun.\n 9 Indra and Agni, yours are all the treasures of the heavens and earth.\n Here give ye us the opulence that prospers every living man.\n 10 O Indra-Agni, who accept the laud, and hear us for our praise,\n Come near us, drawn by all our songs, to drink of this our Soma juice.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 6: HYMN LIX. Indra-Agni.","type":"page"}