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VEDIC HYMNS.
MANDALA IV, HYMN 10. ASHTAKA III, ADHYÂYA 5, VARGA 10.
1! O Agni ! May we to-day successfully perform, with thy heedfulness, this praises which touches thy heart, which is like a horse, like auspicious power of the mind.
2. For verily thou, O Agni, hast become the charioteer of auspicious power of the mind, of real ability, and of the mighty Rita.
3. Through these our hymns direct thyself hitherwards to us like the sun with its light!, O Agni, gracious with all thy faces.
4. May we to-day worship thee, O Agni, praising thee with these songs. Thy roarings thunder like (the thunder) of Heaven.
5. Thy sweetest aspect, О Agni, shines near us for glory's sake, now by day, now by night, like gold.
6. Like purified ghrita is thy stainless body; (it is) brilliant gold : that (body) of thine has shone', O self-dependent one, like gold.
7. For even a malice which one has committed, thou verily drivest away entirely, O righteous Agni, from the sacrificing mortal?.
8. May our friendship, O Agni, our brotherhood with you, the gods, be blessed. This is our navel (i. e. relation) in our seat, in this udder
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