{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv08073.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv08073.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv08073.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. AGNI, your dearest Guest, I laud, him who is loving as a friend,\n Who brings us riches like a car.\n 2 Whom as a far-foreseeing Sage the Gods have, from the olden time,\n Established among mortal men.\n 3 Do thou, Most Youthful God, protect the men who offer, hear their songs,\n And of thyself preserve their seed.\n 4 What is the praise wherewith, O God, A\u1e45giras, Agni, Son of Strength,\n We, after thine own wish and thought,\n 5 May serve thee, O thou Child of Power, and with what sacrifice's plan?\n What prayer shall I now speak to thee?\n 6 Our God, make all of us to dwell in happy habitations, and\n Reward our songs with spoil and wealth.\n 7 Lord of the house, what plenty fills the songs which thou inspirest now,\n Thou whose hymn helps to win the kine?\n 8 Hirn Wise and Strong they glorify, the foremost Champion in the fray,\n And mighty in his dwelling-place.\n 9 Agni, he dwells in rest and peace who smites and no one smites again:\n With hero sons he prospers well","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 8: HYMN LXXIII. Agni.","type":"page"}