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1.
LOVING the loving One, as wives their husband, the sisters of one home have
urged him forward,
Bright-coloured,
even, as the cows love morning, dark, breaking forth to view, and redly
beaming.
2
Our sires with lauds burst e'en the firmset fortress, yea, the Angirases, with
roar, the mountain.
They made
for us a way to reach high heaven, they found us day, light, day's sign, beams
of morning.
3
They stablished order, made his service fruitful; then parting them among the
longing faithful,
Not
thirsting after aught, they come, most active, while with sweet food the race
of Gods they strengthen.
4
Since Matarisvan, far-diffused, bath stirred him, and he in every house grown
bright and noble,
He,
Bhrgu-like I hath gone as his companion, as on commission to a greater Sovran.
5
When man poured juice to Heaven, the mighty Father, he knew and freed himself
from close embracement.
The archer
boldly shot at him his arrow, and the God threw his splendour on his Daughter.
6
Whoso, bath flames for thee within his dwelling, or brings the worship which
thou lovest daily,
Do thou of
double might increase his substance: may he whom thou incitest meet with
riches.
7
All sacrificial viands wait on Agni as the Seven mighty Rivers seek the ocean.
Not by our
brethren was our food discovered: find with the Gods care for us, thou who
knowest.
8
When light bath filled the Lord of men for increase, straight from the heaven
descends the limpid moisture.
Agni bath
brought to light and filled with spirit the youthful host blameless and well
providing.
9
He who like thought goes swiftly on his journey, the Sun, alone is ever Lord of
riches.
The Kings
with fair hands, Varuna and Mitra, protect the precious nectar in our cattle.
10
O Agni, break not our ancestral friendship, Sage as thou art, endowed with
deepest knowledge.
Old age,
like gathering cloud, impairs the body: before that evil be come nigh protect
me.
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