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Rig Veda 5.26

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

O Agni, Holy and Divine, with splendour and thy pleasant tongue Bring hither and adore the Gods.

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We pray thee, thou who droppest oil, bright-rayed! who lookest on the Sun, Bring the Gods hither to the feast.

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We have enkindled thee, O Sage, bright caller of the Gods to feast. O Agni, great in Sacrifice.

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O Agni, come with all the Gods, come to our sacrificial gift: We choose thee as Invoking Priest.

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Bring, Agni, to the worshipper who pours the juice, heroic strength: Sit with the Gods upon the grass.

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Victor of thousands, Agni, thou, enkindled, cherishest the laws, Laud-worthy, envoy of the Gods.

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Set Agni Jatavedas down, the bearer of our sacred gifts, Most Youthful, God and Minister.

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Duly proceed our sacrifice, comprising all the Gods, to-day: Strew holy grass to be their seat.

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So may the Maruts sit thereon, the Asvins, Mitra, Varuna: The Gods with all their company.

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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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