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1. SEND unto us a good and
happy mind.
2 1 worship Agni, Youthfullest
of Gods, resistless, Friend of laws;
Under whose guard and heavenly light the
Spotted seek the Mother's breast:
3 Whom with their mouth they
magnify, bannered with flame and homed in light.
He glitters with his row of teeth.
4 Kind, Furtherer of men, he
comes, when he hath reached the ends of heaven,
Sage, giving splendour to the clouds.
5 To taste man's offerings,
he, the Strong, hath risen erect at sacrifice:
Fixing his dwelling he proceeds.
6 Here are oblation, worship,
rest: rapidly comes his furtherance.
To sword-armed Agni come the Gods.
7 With service for chief bliss
I seek the Lord of Sacrifice, Agni, whom
They call the Living, Son of Cloud.
8 Blest evermore be all the
men who come from us, who magnify
Agni with sacrificial gifts.
9 The path he treads is black
and white and red, and striped, and brown, crimson, and glorious.
His sire begat him bright with hues of gold.
10 Thus with his thoughts, O
Son of Strength, O Agni, hath Vimada, accordant with the Immortals,
Offered thee hymns, soliciting thy favour. Thou
hast brought all food, strength, a prosperous dwelling.
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