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1. HE who
seeks furtherance and grace to help him goes to the Son of Strength with newest
worship,
Calling the heavenly Priest to
share the banquet, who rends the wood, bright, with his blackened pathway.
2 White-hued
and thundering he dwells in splendour, Most Youthful, with the loudvoiced and
eternal -
Agni, most variform, the
Purifier, who follows crunching many ample forests.
3 Incited by the
wind thy flames, O Agni, move onward, Pure One! pure, in all directions.
Thy most destructive heavenly
Navagvas break the woods down and devastate them boldly.
4 Thy pure
white horses from their bonds are loosened: O Radiant One, they shear the
ground beneath them,
And far and wide shines out thy
flame, and flickers rapidly moving over earth's high ridges.
5 Forth darts
the Bull's tongue like the sharp stone weapon discharged by him who fights to
win the cattle.
Agni's fierce flame is like a
hero's onset: dread and resistless he destroys the forests.
6 Thou with
the sunlight of the great Impeller hast boldly over-spread the earth's
expanses.
So drive away with conquering
might all perils. fighting out foemen burn up those who harm us.
7 Wondrous! of
wondrous power! give to the singer wealth wondrous, marked, most wonderful,
life-giving.
Wealth bright, O Bright One,
vast, with many heroes, give with thy bright flames to the man who lauds thee.
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