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1. STABLISHED for thee, to
lend thee vital forces, Giver of wealth, Guard of his servant's body.
The Great Priest, born, who knows the clouds,
Abider with men, is seated in the lap of waters.
2 Worshipping, seeking him
with adoration like some lost creature followed by its footprints,
Wise Bhrgus, yearning in their hearts, pursued
him, and found him lurking where the floods are gathered.
3 On the Cow's forehead, with
laborious searching, Trita, the offspring of Vibhiavas, found him.
Born in our houses, Youthful, joy-bestower, he
now becomes the central point of brightness.
4 Yearning, with homage, they
have set and made him blithe Priest among mankind, oblation-bearer,
Leader of rites and Purifier, envoy of men, as
sacrifice that still advances.
5 The foolish brought the
ne'er-bewildered forward, great, Victor, Song-inspirer, Fort-destroyer.
Leading the Youth gold-bearded, like a courser
gleaming with wealth, they turned their hymn to profit.
6 Holding his station firmly
in the houses, Trita sat down within his home surrounded
Thence, as Law bids, departs the Tribes'
Companion having collected men with no compulsion.
7 His are the fires, eternal,
purifying, that make the houses move, whose smoke is shining,
White, waxing in their strength, for ever
stirring, and sitting in the wood; like winds are Somas.
8 The tongue of Agni bears
away the praisesong, and, through his care for Earth, her operations.
Him, bright and radiant, living men have
stablished as their blithe Priest, the Chief of Sacrificers.
9 That Agni, him whom Heaven
and Earth engendered, the Waters. Tvastar, and with might, the Bhrgus,
Him Matarisvan and the Gods have fashioned holy
for man and first to be entreated.
10 Agni, whom Gods have made
oblationbearer, and much-desiring men regard as holy,
Give life to him who lauds thee when he
worships, and then shall glorious men in troops adore thee.
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