Library·Ṛgveda Saṃhitā·1·1.147
कथा ते अग्ने शुचयन्त आयोर् ददाशुर् वाजेभिर् आशुषाणाः । उभे यत् तोके तनये दधाना ऋतस्य सामन् रणयन्त देवाः ॥
kathā te agne śucayanta āyor dadāśur vājebhir āśuṣāṇāḥ | ubhe yat toke tanaye dadhānā ṛtasya sāman raṇayanta devāḥ ||
How, Agni, have the radiant ones, aspiring, endued thee with the vigour of the living, So that on both sides fostering seed and offspring, the Gods may joy in Holy Law's fulfilment?
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)
बोधा मे अस्य वचसो यविष्ठ मंहिष्ठस्य प्रभृतस्य स्वधावः । पीयति त्वो अनु त्वो गृणाति वन्दारुस् ते तन्वं वन्दे अग्ने ॥
bodhā me asya vacaso yaviṣṭha maṃhiṣṭhasya prabhṛtasya svadhāvaḥ | pīyati tvo anu tvo gṛṇāti vandārus te tanvaṃ vande agne ||
Mark this my speech, Divine One, thou, Most Youthful! offered to thee by him who gives most freely. One hates thee, and another sings thy praises: I thine adorer laud thy form, O Agni.
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)
ये पायवो मामतेयं ते अग्ने पश्यन्तो अन्धं दुरिताद् अरक्षन् । ररक्ष तान् सुकृतो विश्ववेदा दिप्सन्त इद् रिपवो नाह देभुः ॥
ye pāyavo māmateyaṃ te agne paśyanto andhaṃ duritād arakṣan | rarakṣa tān sukṛto viśvavedā dipsanta id ripavo nāha debhuḥ ||
Thy guardian rays, O Agni, when they saw him, preserved blind Mamateya from affliction. Lord of all riches, he preserved the pious the foes who fain would harm them did no mischief.
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)
यो नो अग्ने अररिवां अघायुर् अरातीवा मर्चयति द्वयेन । मन्त्रो गुरुः पुनर् अस्तु सो अस्मा अनु मृक्षीष्ट तन्वं दुरुक्तैः ॥
yo no agne ararivāṃ aghāyur arātīvā marcayati dvayena | mantro guruḥ punar astu so asmā anu mṛkṣīṣṭa tanvaṃ duruktaiḥ ||
The sinful man who worships not, O Agni, who, offering not, harms us with double-dealing,-- Be this in turn to him a heavy sentence may he distress himself by his revilings.
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)
उत वा यः सहस्य प्रविद्वान् मर्तो मर्तम् मर्चयति द्वयेन । अतः पाहि स्तवमान स्तुवन्तम् अग्ने माकिर् नो दुरिताय धायीः ॥
uta vā yaḥ sahasya pravidvān marto martam marcayati dvayena | ataḥ pāhi stavamāna stuvantam agne mākir no duritāya dhāyīḥ ||
Yea, when a mortal knowingly, O Victor, injures with double tongue a fellow-mortal, From him, praised Agni! save thou him that lauds thee: bring us not into trouble and affliction.
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)