Rig Veda
sakhāyas tvā vavṛmahe devam martāsa ūtaye apāṃ napātaṃ subhagaṃ sudīditiṃ supratūrtim anehasam
We as thy friends have chosen thee, mortals a God, to be our help, The Waters' Child, the blessed, the resplendent One, victorious and beyond compare.
kāyamāno vanā tvaṃ yan mātṝr ajagann apaḥ na tat te agne pramṛṣe nivartanaṃ yad dūre sann ihābhavaḥ
Since thou delighting in the woods hast gone unto thy mother streams, Not to be scorned, Agni, is that return of thine when from afar thou now art here.
ati tṛṣṭaṃ vavakṣithāthaiva sumanā asi pra prānye yanti pary anya āsate yeṣāṃ sakhye asi śritaḥ
O'er pungent smoke host thou prevailed, and thus art thou benevolent. Some go before, and others round about thee sit, they in whose friendship thou hast place.
īyivāṃsam ati sridhaḥ śaśvatīr ati saścataḥ anv īm avindan nicirāso adruho 'psu siṃham iva śritam
Him who had passed beyond his foes, beyond continual pursuits, Him the unerring Ones, observant, found in floods, couched like a lion in his lair.
sasṛvāṃsam iva tmanāgnim itthā tirohitam ainaṃ nayan mātariśvā parāvato devebhyo mathitam pari
Him wandering at his own free will, Agni here hidden from our view, Him Matarisvan brought to us from far away produced by friction, from the Gods.
taṃ tvā martā agṛbhṇata devebhyo havyavāhana viśvān yad yajñāṁ abhipāsi mānuṣa tava kratvā yaviṣṭhya
O Bearer of Oblations, thus mortals received thee from the Gods, Whilst thou, the Friend of man, guardest each sacrifice with thine own power, Most Youthful One.
tad bhadraṃ tava daṃsanā pākāya cic chadayati tvāṃ yad agne paśavaḥ samāsate samiddham apiśarvare
Amid thy wonders this is good, yea, to the simple is it clear, When gathered round about thee, Agni, lie the herds where thou art kindled in the morn.
ā juhotā svadhvaraṃ śīram pāvakaśociṣam āśuṃ dūtam ajiram pratnam īḍyaṃ śruṣṭī devaṃ saparyata
Offer to him who knows fair rites, who burns with purifying glow, Swift envoy, active, ancient, and adorable: serve ye the God attentively.
trīṇi śatā trī sahasrāṇy agniṃ triṃśac ca devā nava cāsaparyan aukṣan ghṛtair astṛṇan barhir asmā ād iddhotāraṃ ny asādayanta
Three times a hundred Gods and thrice a thousand, and three times ten and nine have worshipped Agni, For him spread sacred grass, with oil bedewed him, and stablished him as Priest and Sacrificer.