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Rig Veda 3.28

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Agni who knowest all, accept our offering and the cake of meal, At dawn's libation, rich in prayer!

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Agni, the sacrificial cake hath been prepared and dressed for thee: Accept it, O Most Youthful God.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Agni, enjoy the cake of meal and our oblation three days old: Thou, Son of Strength, art stablished at our sacrifice.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Here at the midday sacrifice enjoy thou the sacrificial cake, wise, Jatavedas! Agni, the sages in assemblies never diminish the portion due to thee the Mighty.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

O Agni, at the third libation take with joy the offered cake of sacrifice, thou, Son of Strength. Through skill in song bear to the Gods our sacrifice, watchful and fraught with riches, to Immortal God.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

O waxing Agni, knower, thou, of all, accept our gifts, the cake, And that prepared ere yesterday.

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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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