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Rig Veda 7.17

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Agni, be kindled well with proper fuel, and let the grass be scattered wide about thee.

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Let the impatient Portals be thrown open bring thou the Gods impatient to come hither.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Taste, Agni: serve the Gods with our oblation. Offer good sacrifices, Jatavedas!

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Let Jatavedas pay fair sacrifices, worship and gratify the Gods Immortal.

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Wise God, win for us things that are all-goodly, and let the prayers, we pray today be fruitful.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Thee, even thee, the Son of Strength, O Agni, those Gods have made the bearer of oblations.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

To thee the God may we perform our worship: do thou, besought, grant us abundant riches.

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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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