1FOR Jatavedas worthy of our praise will we frame with our mind this eulogy as 'twere a car. For good, in his assembly, is this care of ours. Let us not, in thy friendship, Agni, suffer harm.

2Tvastar's ten daughters, vigilant and youthful, produced this Infant borne to sundry quarters. They bear around him whose long flames are pointed, fulgent among mankind with native splendour. 2. 3. Three several places of his birth they honour, in mid−air, in the heaven, and in the waters. Governing in the cast of earthly regions, the seasons hath he stablished in their order.

3May we have power to kindle thee. Fulfil our thoughts. In thee the Gods eat the presented offering, Bring hither the Adityas, for we long for them. Let us not in thy friendship, Agni, suffer harm.

4Who of you knows this secret One? The Infant by his own nature hath brought forth his Mothers. The germ of many, from the waters' bosom he goes forth, wise and great, of Godlike nature.

5Visible, fair, he grows in native brightness uplifted in the lap of waving waters. When he was born both Tvastar's worlds were frightened: they turn to him and reverence the Lion.

6The Two auspicious Ones, like women, tend him: like lowing cows they seek him in their manner. He is the Lord of Might among the mighty; him, on the right, they balm with their oblations.

7Like Savitar his arms with might he stretches; awful, he strives grasping the world's two borders. He forces out from all a brilliant vesture, yea, from his Mothers draws he forth new raiment.

8He makes him a most noble form of splendour, decking him in his home with milk and waters. The Sage adorns the depths of air with wisdom . this is the meeting where the Gods are worshipped.

9Wide through the firmament spreads forth triumphant the far−resplendent strength of' thee the Mighty. Kindled by us do thou preserve us, Agni, with all thy self−bright undiminished succours.

10In dry spots he makes stream, and course, and torrent, and inundates the earth with floods that glisten. All ancient things within his maw he gathers, and moves among the new fresh−sprouting grasses.

11Fed with our fuel, purifying Agni, so blaze to us auspiciously for glory. This prayer of ours may Varuna grant, and Mitra, and Aditi and Sindhu, Earth and Heaven.

12He hath the Power to soothe Mitra and Varuna: wonderful is the Maruts' wrath when they descend. Be gracious; let their hearts he turned to us again. Let us not in thy friendship, Agni, suffer harm.

13Thou art a God, thou art the wondrous Friend of Gods, the Vasu of the Vasus, fair in sacrifice. Under, t hine own most wide protection may we dwell. Let us not in thy friendship, Agni, suffer harm. 14 This is t hy grace that, kindled in thine own abode, invoked with Soma thou soundest forth most benign, Thou giv est wealth and treasure to the worshipper. Let us not in thy friendship, Agni, suffer harm. 15 To whom tho u, Lord of goodly riches, grantest freedom from every sin with perfect wholeness, Whom with good stren gth thou quikenest, with children and wealth−may we be they, Eternal Being. 16 Such, Agni, thou who kn owest all good fortune, God, lengthen here the days of our existence. This prayer of ours may Varuna gra nt, and Mitra, and Aditi and Sindhu, Earth and Heaven. HYMN XCV. Agni 1. 1. To fair goals travel Two unlike in semblance: each in succession nourishes an infant. One bears a Godlike Babe of golden colour; bright and fair−shining, is he with the other.