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Rig Veda 1.13

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Agni, well-kindled, bring the Gods for him who offers holy gifts. Worship them, Purifier, Priest.

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Son of Thyself, present, O Sage, our sacrifice to the Gods today. Sweet to the taste, that they may feast.

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Dear Narasamsa, sweet of tongue, the giver of oblations, I Invoke to this our sacrifice.

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Agni, on thy most easy car, glorified, hither bring the Gods: Manu appointed thee as Priest.

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Strew, O ye wise, the sacred grass that drips with oil, in order due, Where the Immortal is beheld.

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Thrown open be the Doors Divine, unfailing, that assist the rite, For sacrifice this day and now.

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I call the lovely Night and Dawn to seat them on the holy grass At this our solemn sacrifice.

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The two Invokers I invite, the wise, divine and sweet of tongue, To celebrate this our sacrifice.

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Ila, Sarasvati, Mahi, three Goddesses who bring delight, Be seated, peaceful, on the grass.

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Tvashtar I call, the earliest born, the wearer of all forms at will: May he be ours and curs alone.

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God, Sovran of the Wood, present this our oblation to the Gods, And let the giver be renowned.

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With Svaha pay the sacrifice to Indra in the offerer's house: Thither I call the Deities.

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Sanskrit text: Oliver Hellwig, The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (DCS), 2010–2024. CC BY 4.0. · Source ↗

Sanskrit text from The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (DCS) by Oliver Hellwig, 2010–2024, https://github.com/OliverHellwig/sanskrit, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Changes: sentence parts joined per verse; only verses the DCS numbers are included (8483 of the Ṛgveda's 10,552).

Ralph T. H. Griffith's translation (1896–97). It is dated, and scholars now read many verses differently. A few verses Griffith left untranslated or moved to an appendix are not included.

Ralph T. H. Griffith, The Hymns of the Rigveda, 2nd edition (Benares: E. J. Lazarus, 1896–97). Public domain. Text from English Wikisource, checked against Internet Archive scans of the 1896–97 printing. · Source ↗

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