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1. THOU in the house of man
this day enkindled worshippest Gods as God, O Jatavedas.
Observant, bright as Mitra, bring them hither:
thou art a sapient and foreknowing envoy.
2 Tanunapat, fair-tongued,
with sweet meath balming the paths and waysof Order, make them pleasant.
Convey our sacrifice to heaven, exalting with
holy thoughts ourhymns of praise and worship.
3 Invoked, deserving prayer
and adoration, O Agni, come accordant with the Vasus.
Thou art, O Youthful Lord, the Gods' Invoker,
so, best of Sacrificers, bring them quickly.
4 By rule the Sacred Grass is
scattered eastward, a robe to clothe this earth when dawns are breaking.
Widely it spreads around and far-extended, fair
for the Gods and bringing peace and freedom.
5 Let the expansive Doors be
widely opened, like wives who deck their beauty for their husbands.
Lofty, celestial, all-impelling Portals, admit
the Gods and give them easy entrance.
6 Pouring sweet dews let holy
Night and Morning, each close to each, he seated at their station,
Lofty, celestial Dames with gold to deck them.
assuming all their fair and radiant beauty.
7 Come the two first celestial
sweet-voiced Hotars, arranging sacrifice for man to worship
As singers who inspire us in assemblies,
showing the eastward light with their direction.
8 Let Bharati come quickly to
our worship, and Ila showing like a human being.
So let Sarasvati and both her fellows, deft
Goddesses, on this fair grass be seated.
9 Hotar more skilled in
sacrifice, bring hither with speed to-day God Tvastar, thou who knowest.
Even him who formed these two, the Earth and
Heaven the Parents, with their forms, and every creature.
10 Send to our offerings which
thyself thou balmest the Companies of Gods in ordered season.
Agni, Vanaspati the Immolator sweeten our
offered gift with meath and butter.
11 Agni, as soon as he was
born, made ready the sacrifice, and was the Gods' preceder.
May the Gods cat our offering consecrated
according to this true Priest's voice and guidance.
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