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Rig Veda 5.5

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

To Agni, Jatavedas, to the flame, the well-enkindled God, Offer thick sacrificial oil.

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He, Narasamsa, ne'er beguiled, inspiriteth this sacrifice: For sage is he, with sweets in hand.

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Adored, O Agni, hither bring Indra the Wonderful, the Friend, On lightly-rolling car to aid.

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Spread thyself out, thou soft as wool The holy hymns have sung to thee. Bring gain to us, O beautiful!

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Open yourselves, ye Doors Divine, easy of access for our aid: Fill, more and more, the sacrifice.

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Fair strengtheners of vital power, young Mothers of eternal Law, Morning and Night we supplicate.

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On the wind's flight come, glorified, ye two celestial Priests of man Come ye to this our sacrifice.

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Ila, Sarasvati, Mahi, three Goddesses who bring us weal, Be seated harmless on the grass.

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Rich in all plenty, Tvashtar, come auspicious of thine own accord Help us in every sacrifice.

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Vanaspati, wherever thou knowest the Gods' mysterious names, Send our oblations thitherward.

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To Agni and to Varuna, Indra, the Maruts, and the Gods, With Svaha be oblation brought.

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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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