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1. AGNI bestows the fleet
prize-winning courser: Agni, the hero famed and firm in duty.
Agni pervades and decks the earth and heaven,
and fills the fruitful dame who teems with heroes.
2 Blest be the wood that feeds
the active Agni: within the two great worlds hath Agni entered.
Agni impels a single man to battle, and with
him rends in pieces many a foeman.
3 Agni rejoiced the car of him
who praised lim, and from the waters burnt away jarutha.
Agni saved Atri in the fiery cavem, and made
Nrmedha rich with troops of children.
4 Agni hath granted wealth
that decks the hero, and sent the sage who wins a thousand cattle.
Agni hath made oblations rise to heaven: to
every place are Agni's laws extended.
5 With songs of praise the
Rsis call on Agni; on Agni, heroes worsted in the foray.
Birds flying in the region call on Agni around
a thousand cattle Agni wanders.
6 Races of human birth pay
Agni worship, men who have sprung from Nahus' line adore him.
Stablished in holy oil is Agni's pasture, on
the Gandharva path of Law and Order.
7 The Rbhus fabricated prayer
for Agni, and we with mighty hymns have called on Agni.
Agni, Most Youthful God, protect the singer:
win us by worship, Agni, great possessions.
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