29. Agni, man’s gracious Friend, the Soma’s keeper, Vaisvânara, hath been lauded by the Rishis. We will invoke benignant Earth and Heaven: ye Deities, give us wealth with hero children.
30. Pay service unto Agni with your fuel, rouse your Guest with oil: In him present your offerings.
31. May all the Gods, O Agni, bear thee upward with their earnest thoughts: Not to be looked on, rich in light, be thou propitious unto us,
32. Agni, go forth resplendent, thou with thine auspicious flames of fire. Shining with mighty beams of light harm not my people with thy form.
33. Agni roared out, etc. (verse 21 repeated.)
34. Far famed is this the Bharata’s own Agni: he shineth like the Sun with lofty splendour. He who hath vanquished Pûru in the battle, the heavenly Guest hath shone for us benignly.
35. Receive these ashes, ye celestial Waters, and lay them in a fair place full of fragrance. To him bow down the nobly-wedded Matrons! Bear this on waters as her son a mother.
36. Agni, thy home is in the floods: into the plants thou forcest way, And as their child art born anew.
37. Thou art the offspring of the plants, thou art the offspring of the trees: The offspring thou of all that is, thou, Agni, art the Waters’ Child,
38. With ashes having reached the womb, the waters, Agni and the earth, United with the mothers, thou blazing hast seated thee again.
39. Seated again upon thy seat, the waters, Agni! and the earth, In her, thou, most auspicious One, liest as in a mother’s lap
40, 41 Return again, etc. Agni, return, etc. (verses 9 and 10 repeated).
42. 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.
43. Be thou for us a liberal Prince, Giver and Lord of precious things. Drive those who hate us far away. To the Omnific One All-hail!
44. Again let the Âdityas, Rudras, Yams, and Brahmans with their rites light thee, Wealth-bringer! Increase thy body with presented butter: effectual be the Sacrificer’s wishes.
45. Go hence, depart, creep off in all directions, both ancient visitors and recent comers: Yama hath given a place on earth to rest in. This place for him the Fathers have provided.
46. Knowledge art thou: accomplishment of wishes. In me be the fulfilment of thy wishes. Thou art the ashes, thou the mould of Agni. Rankers are ye, rankers around. Rankers right upward, be ye fixed.
47. This is that Agni where the longing Indra took the pressed Soma deep within his body. Winner of spoils in thousands like a courser, with prayer art thou exalted, Jâtavedas.
48. The splendour which is thine in heaven, O Agni, in earth, O Holy One, in plants, in waters, Wherewith thou hast o’erspread mid-air’s broad region, that light is brilliant, billowy, man-surveying.
49. O Agni, to the flood of heaven thou mountest, thou tallest hither Gods, the thought-inspirers. The waters, those beyond the light of Sûrya, and those that are beneath it here, approach thee.
50. May the Purîshya Agnis in accord with those that spring from floods, May they, benevolent, accept the sacrifice, full, wholesome draughts.
51. As holy food, Agni, to thine invoker give wealth in cattle, lasting, rich in marvels. To us be born a son and spreading offspring. Agni, be this thy gracious will to us-ward.
52. This is thine ordered place of birth whence, sprung to life, thou shonest forth. Knowing this, Agni, mount on high and cause our riches to increase.
53. Ranker art thou: Angiras-like sit steady with that Deity. Ranker-round art thou: Angiras-like sit steady with that Deity.
54. Fill up the room, supply the void, then settle steady in thy place. Indr-Âgni and Brihaspati have set thee down in this abode.
55. The dappled kine who stream with milk prepare his draught of Soma juice— Clans in the birthplace of the Gods, in the three luminous realms of heaven.
56. All sacred songs have magnified Indra expansive as the sea, The best of warriors borne on cars, the Lord, the very Lord of Strength.
57. Combine ye two and harmonize together, dear to each other, brilliant, friendly-minded, Abiding in one place for food and vigour.
58. Together have I brought your minds, your ordinances, and your thoughts. Be thou our Sovran Lord, Agni Purîshya; give food and vigour to the Sacrificer.
