IX Agni

1. Associate with fires, make your God Agni envoy at sacrifice, best skilled in worship,

Established firm among mankind, the holy flame-crowned and fed with oil, the purifier!

2. Like a steed neighing eager for the pasture, when he hath stepped forth from the great enclosure:

Then the wind following blows upon his splendour, and, straight, the path is black which thou hast travelled.

3. From thee, a bull but newly born, O Agni, the kindled everlasting flames rise upward.

Aloft to heaven as ruddy smoke thou mountest: Agni, thou speedest to the Gods as envoy.