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THE SAMA VEDA<br />
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XIII Agni<br />
1. Exerting all our strength with thoughts of power we glorify in speech,<br />
Agni, your dear familiar friend, the darling guest of every house:<br />
2. Whom, served with sacrificial oil, like Mitra, men presenting gifts,<br />
Glorify with their songs of praise<br />
3. Much-lauded Jatavedas, him who sends oblations up to heaven,<br />
Prepared in service of the Gods.<br />
XIV Agni<br />
1. Agni, inflamed with fuel, in my song I sing, pure bright, and stedfast set in front at sacrifice.<br />
Wise Jatavedas we implore with prayers for grace, the Sage, the Hotar-priest, bounteous, and void of<br />
guile.<br />
2. Men, Agni, in each age, have made thee, deathless one, their envoy, offering-bearer, guard<br />
adorable.<br />
With reverence Gods and mortals have established thee as everwatchful and almighty household<br />
Lord.<br />
3. Though, Agni ordering the works and ways of both, as envoy of the Gods traversest both the<br />
realms.<br />
When we lay claim to thy regard and gracious care, be thou to us a th rice- protecting friendly guard?<br />
XV Agni<br />
1. Still turning to their aim in thee the sacrificer's sister hymns<br />
Have come to thee before the wind.<br />
2. Even the waters find their place in him whose three fold sacred grass<br />
Is spread unbound, unlimited.<br />
3. The station of the bounteous God, by his unconquerable aid,<br />
Hath a fair aspect like the Sun.<br />
CHAPTER III<br />
I Indra<br />
1. Men with their lauds are urging thee, Indra, to drink the Soma first.<br />
The Ribhus in accord have lifted up their voice, and Rudras sung thee as the first.<br />
2. Indra, at sacrifice, increased his manly strength, in the wild rapture of this juice:<br />
And living men to-day, even as of old, sing forth their praises to his majesty.<br />
II Indra-Agni<br />
1. Indra and Agni! singers skilled in melody, with lauds, hymn you:<br />
I choose you both to bring me food.<br />
2. Indra and Agni! ye shook down, together, with one mightyr deed, The ninety forts which Dasas<br />
held.<br />
3. To Indra and to Agni prayers go forward from the holy task, Along the path of sacred Law.<br />
4. Indra and Agni, powers are yours, yours are oblations ano abodes: Good is your zealous energy.<br />
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