Library·Ṛgveda Saṃhitā·3·3.9
सखायस् त्वा ववृमहे देवम् मर्तास ऊतये । अपां नपातं सुभगं सुदीदितिं सुप्रतूर्तिम् अनेहसम् ॥
sakhāyas tvā vavṛmahe devam martāsa ūtaye | apāṃ napātaṃ subhagaṃ sudīditiṃ supratūrtim anehasam ||
We as thy friends have chosen thee, mortals a God, to be our help, The Waters' Child, the blessed, the resplendent One, victorious and beyond compare.
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)
कायमानो वना त्वं यन् मातॄर् अजगन्न् अपः । न तत् ते अग्ने प्रमृषे निवर्तनं यद् दूरे सन्न् इहाभवः ॥
kāyamāno vanā tvaṃ yan mātṝr ajagann apaḥ | na tat te agne pramṛṣe nivartanaṃ yad dūre sann ihābhavaḥ ||
Since thou delighting in the woods hast gone unto thy mother streams, Not to be scorned, Agni, is that return of thine when from afar thou now art here.
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)
अति तृष्टं ववक्षिथाथैव सुमना असि । प्र-प्रान्ये यन्ति पर्य् अन्य आसते येषां सख्ये असि श्रितः ॥
ati tṛṣṭaṃ vavakṣithāthaiva sumanā asi | pra-prānye yanti pary anya āsate yeṣāṃ sakhye asi śritaḥ ||
O'er pungent smoke host thou prevailed, and thus art thou benevolent. Some go before, and others round about thee sit, they in whose friendship thou hast place.
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)
ईयिवांसम् अति स्रिधः शश्वतीर् अति सश्चतः । अन्व् ईम् अविन्दन् निचिरासो अद्रुहो ऽप्सु सिंहम् इव श्रितम् ॥
īyivāṃsam ati sridhaḥ śaśvatīr ati saścataḥ | anv īm avindan nicirāso adruho 'psu siṃham iva śritam ||
Him who had passed beyond his foes, beyond continual pursuits, Him the unerring Ones, observant, found in floods, couched like a lion in his lair.
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)
ससृवांसम् इव त्मनाग्निम् इत्था तिरोहितम् । ऐनं नयन् मातरिश्वा परावतो देवेभ्यो मथितम् परि ॥
sasṛvāṃsam iva tmanāgnim itthā tirohitam | ainaṃ nayan mātariśvā parāvato devebhyo mathitam pari ||
Him wandering at his own free will, Agni here hidden from our view, Him Matarisvan brought to us from far away produced by friction, from the Gods.
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)
तं त्वा मर्ता अगृभ्णत देवेभ्यो हव्यवाहन । विश्वान् यद् यज्ञां अभिपासि मानुष तव क्रत्वा यविष्ठ्य ॥
taṃ tvā martā agṛbhṇata devebhyo havyavāhana | viśvān yad yajñāṃ abhipāsi mānuṣa tava kratvā yaviṣṭhya ||
O Bearer of Oblations, thus mortals received thee from the Gods, Whilst thou, the Friend of man, guardest each sacrifice with thine own power, Most Youthful One.
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)
तद् भद्रं तव दंसना पाकाय चिच् छदयति । त्वां यद् अग्ने पशवः समासते समिद्धम् अपिशर्वरे ॥
tad bhadraṃ tava daṃsanā pākāya cic chadayati | tvāṃ yad agne paśavaḥ samāsate samiddham apiśarvare ||
Amid thy wonders this is good, yea, to the simple is it clear, When gathered round about thee, Agni, lie the herds where thou art kindled in the morn.
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)
आ जुहोता स्वध्वरं शीरम् पावकशोचिषम् । आशुं दूतम् अजिरम् प्रत्नम् ईड्यं श्रुष्टी देवं सपर्यत ॥
ā juhotā svadhvaraṃ śīram pāvakaśociṣam | āśuṃ dūtam ajiram pratnam īḍyaṃ śruṣṭī devaṃ saparyata ||
Offer to him who knows fair rites, who burns with purifying glow, Swift envoy, active, ancient, and adorable: serve ye the God attentively.
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)
त्रीणि शता त्री सहस्राण्य् अग्निं त्रिंशच् च देवा नव चासपर्यन् । औक्षन् घृतैर् अस्तृणन् बर्हिर् अस्मा आद् इद् धोतारं न्य् असादयन्त ॥
trīṇi śatā trī sahasrāṇy agniṃ triṃśac ca devā nava cāsaparyan | aukṣan ghṛtair astṛṇan barhir asmā ād id dhotāraṃ ny asādayanta ||
Three times a hundred Gods and thrice a thousand, and three times ten and nine have worshipped Agni, For him spread sacred grass, with oil bedewed him, and stablished him as Priest and Sacrificer.
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)