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कथा दाशेमाग्नये कास्मै देवजुष्टोच्यते भामिने गीः। यो मर्त्येष्वमृत ऋतावा होता यजिष्ठ इत्कृणोति देवान्॥

kathā dāśemāgnaye kāsmai devajuṣṭocyate bhāmine gīḥ | yo martyeṣvamṛta ṛtāvā hotā yajiṣṭha itkṛṇoti devān ||

How shall we pay oblation unto Agni? What hymn, Godloved, is said to him refulgent? Who, deathless, true to Law, mid men a herald, bringeth the Gods as best of sacrificers?

यो अध्वरेषु शंतम ऋतावा होता तमू नमोभिरा कृणुध्वम्। अग्निर्यद्वेर्मर्ताय देवान्स चा बोधाति मनसा यजाति॥

yo adhvareṣu śaṁtama ṛtāvā hotā tamū namobhirā kṛṇudhvam | agniryadvermartāya devānsa cā bodhāti manasā yajāti ||

Bring him with reverence hither, most propitious in sacrifices, true to Law, the herald; For Agni, when he seeks the Gods for mortals, knows them full well and worships them in spirit.

स हि क्रतुः स मर्यः स साधुर्मित्रो न भूदद्भुतस्य रथीः। तं मेधेषु प्रथमं देवयन्तीर्विश उप ब्रुवते दस्ममारीः॥

sa hi kratuḥ sa maryaḥ sa sādhurmitro na bhūdadbhutasya rathīḥ | taṁ medheṣu prathamaṁ devayantīrviśa upa bruvate dasmamārīḥ ||

For he is mental power, a man, and perfect; he is the bringer, friend-,like, of the wondrous. The pious Aryan tribes at sacrifices address them first to him who doeth marvels.

स नो नृणां नृतमो रिशादा अग्निर्गिरोऽवसा वेतु धीतिम्। तना च ये मघवानः शविष्ठा वाजप्रसूता इषयन्त मन्म॥

sa no nṛṇāṁ nṛtamo riśādā agnirgiro'vasā vetu dhītim | tanā ca ye maghavānaḥ śaviṣṭhā vājaprasūtā iṣayanta manma ||

May Agni, foe-destroyer, manliest Hero, accept with love our hymns and our devotion. So may the liberal lords whose strength is strongest, urged by their riches, stir our thoughts with vigour.

एवाग्निर्गोतमेभिरृतावा विप्रेभिरस्तोष्ट जातवेदाः। स एषु द्युम्नं पीपयत्स वाजं स पुष्टिं याति जोषमा चिकित्वान्॥

evāgnirgotamebhirṛtāvā viprebhirastoṣṭa jātavedāḥ | sa eṣu dyumnaṁ pīpayatsa vājaṁ sa puṣṭiṁ yāti joṣamā cikitvān ||

Thus Agni Jatavedas, true to Order, hath by the priestly Gotamas been lauded. May he augment in them splendour and vigour: observant, as he lists, he gathers increase.