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a I gaze on offspring,
Offspring of Ida, connected with Manu;
May they all be in our house.
b Ye are water; may I share your water. Ye are greatness, may I share your greatness; ye are might,
may I share your might; ye are strength, may I share your strength.
c Ye wealthy ones, stay in this place, this fold, this dwelling, this birthplace; be ye here; go not
hence; be many for me [1].
d Thou art composed of every form; enter me with strength, with lordship of kine, with increase of
wealth.
e May I prosper with your thousandfold prosperity; may your wealth rest in me.
f To thee, O Agni, day by day,
That shinest in the darkness, with our devotion,
We come bearing honour.
g Lord of the sacrifices,
Guardian of holy order, shining,
Waxing in his own horne.
h O Agni, be of easy access to us,
As a father to his son;
Befriend us for prosperity.
i O Agni [2] be thou our nearest,
Our protector, kindly, a shield;
Thee, O shining and most radiant one,
We implore for favour, for our friends;
Agni, bright, of bright fame,
Come hither in thy greatest splendour and give us wealth.
k With strength I gaze on you; gaze on me with strength. With increase of wealth I gaze on you;
gaze on me with increase of wealth.
l Ye are food, making sweetness; kindly enter me, nourishment and drink; may I prosper with your
thousandfold prosperity [3], may your wealth rest on me,
m That excellent glory of Savitr
The god we meditate,
That be may stimulate our prayers.'
n Make famous the Soma-presser,
O lord of prayer,
Even as (thou did make famous) Kaksivant Auçija.
o Never art thou barren, O Indra,
Never dost thou fail thy worshipper;
Now more and more is thy divine gift increased,
O bountiful one.
p May we set thee around us, O Agni,
The sage, the strong, as a fort,
Of daring hue, day by day
Destroyer of that which may be broken.
q O Agni, lord of the house, through thee as lord of the house, may I be a good lord of the house;
through me as lord of the house, mayst thou be a good lord of the house; for a hundred winters, this
blessing I invoke, bringing light for the race; this blessing I invoke, bringing light for N. N.
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There is no sacrifice without a Saman. 'As we approach the sacrifice', he says; verily he yokes a
Stoma with it. 'Approach', he says; offspring and cattle approach the world; verily he approaches
cattle and offspring and this world. 'After his ancient splendour', he says; the ancient is the world of
heaven; verily he mounts upon the world of heaven. 'Agni is the head of the sky, the height', he
says; verily he makes him the head [1] of his equals, and verily from the world of the gods he rests
in the world of men. 'Here hath he first been established by the establishers', he says; verily he
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