{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv10124.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv10124.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv10124.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. COME to this sacrifice of ours, O Agni, threefold, with seven threads and five divisions.\n Be our oblation-bearer and preceder: thou hast lain long enough in during darkness.\n 2 I come a God foreseeing from the godless to immortality by secret pathways,\n While I, ungracious one, desert the gracious, leave mine own friends and seek the kin of strangers.\n 3 1, looking to the guest of other lineage, have founded many a rule of Law and Order.\n I bid farewell to the Great God, the Father, and, for neglect, obtain my share of worship.\n 4 I tarried many a year within this altar: I leave the Father, for my choice is Indra.\n Away pass Agni, Varu\u1e47a and Soma. Rule ever changes: this I come to favour.\n 5 These Asuras have lost their powers of magic. But thou, O Varu\u1e47a, if thou dost love me,\n O King, discerning truth and right from falsehood, come and be Lord and Ruler of my kingdom.\n 6 Here is the light of heaven, here allis lovely; here there is radiance, here is air's wide region.\n Let us two slaughter V\u1e5btra. Forth, O Soma! Thou art oblation: we therewith will serve thee.\n 7 The Sage hath fixed his form by wisdom in the heavens: Varu\u1e47a with no violence let the waters flow.\n Like women-folk, the floods that bring prosperity have eau lit his hue and colour as they gleamed and shone.\n 8 These wait upon his loftiest power and vigour: he dwells in these who triumph in their Godhead;\n And they, like people who elect their ruler, have in abhorrence turned away from V\u1e5btra.\n 9 They call him Swan, the abhorrent floods' Companion, moving in friendship with celestial Waters.\n The poets in their thought have looked on Indra swiftly approaching when Anustup calls him.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 10: HYMN CXXIV. Agni, Etc.","type":"page"}