{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv10002.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv10002.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv10002.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. GLADDEN the yearning Gods, O thou Most Youthful: bring them, O Lord of Seasons, knowing seasons,\n With all the Priests Celestial, O Agni. Best worshipper art thou of all Invokers.\n 2 Thine is the Herald's, thine the Cleanser's office, thinker art thou, wealth-giver, true to Order.\n Let us with Sv\u0101h\u0101 offer up oblations, and Agni, worthy God, pay the Gods worship.\n 3 To the Gods\u2019 pathway have we travelled, ready to execute what work we may accomplish.\n Let Agni, for he knows, complete the worship. He is the Priest: let him fix rites and seasons.\n 4 When we most ignorant neglect the statutes of you, O Deities with whom is knowledge,\n Wise Agni shall correct our faults and failings, skilled to assign each God his fitting season.\n 5 When, weak in mind, of feeble understanding, mortals bethink them not of sacrificing,\n Then shall the prudent and discerning Agni worship the Gods, best worshipper, in season.\n 6 Because the Father hath produced thee, Leader of all our solemn rites, their brilliant Banner:\n So win by worship pleasant homes abounding in heroes, and rich food to nourish all men.\n 7 Thou whom the Heaven and Earth, thou whom the Waters, and Tva\u1e63\u1e6dar, maker of fair things, created,\n Well knowing, all along the Fathers' pathway, shine with resplendent light, enkindled, Agni.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 10: HYMN II. Agni.","type":"page"}