{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv10079.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv10079.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv10079.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. I HAVE beheld the might of this Great Being. Immortal in the midst of tribes of mortals.\n His jaws now open and now shut together: much they devour, insatiately chewing.\n 2 His eyes are turned away, his head is hidden: unsated with his tongue he eats the fuel.\n With hands upraised, with reverence in the houses, for him they quickly bring his food together.\n 3 Seeking, as \u2019twere, his Mother's secret bosom, he, like a child, creeps on through wide-spread bushes.\n One he finds glowing like hot food made ready, and kissing deep within the earth's recmes.\n 4 This holy Law I tell you, Earth and Heaven: the Infant at his birth dovours his Parents.\n No knowledge of the God have I, a mortal. Yea, Agni knoweth best, for he hath wisdom.\n 5 This man who quickly gives him food, who offers his gifts of oil and butter and supports him, -\n Him with his thousand eyes he closely looks on: thou showest him thy face from all sides, Agni.\n 6 Agni, hast thou committed sin or treason among the Gods? In ignorance I ask thee.\n Playing, not playing, he gold-hued and toothless, hath cut his food up as the knife a victim.\n 7 He born in wood hath yoked his horses rushing in all directions, held with reins that glitter.\n The well-born friend hath carved his food with Vasus: in all his limbs he hath increased and prospered.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 10: HYMN LXXIX. Agni.","type":"page"}