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Mandala 4, Sukta 2, Verse 10
Sanskrit: यस्य त्वमग्ने अध्वरं जुजोषो देवो मर्तस्य सुधितं रराणः । प्रीतेदसद्धोत्रा सा यविष्ठासाम यस्य विधतो वृधासः ॥
Transliteration: yasya tvamagne adhvaraṃ jujoṣo devo martasya sudhitaṃ rarāṇaḥ | prītedasaddhotrā sā yaviṣṭhāsāma yasya vidhato vṛdhāsaḥ ||
Translation: May that prayer be agreeable to you, Agni, who are a gracious deity, (which is uttered) by the man with whose well-conducted sacrifice you are well plural ased young (of the gods), of whose (rites) when worshipping you may we be the promoters.
Mandala 4, Sukta 2, Verse 11
Sanskrit: चित्तिमचित्तिं चिनवद्वि विद्वान्पृष्ठेव वीता वृजिना च मर्तान् । राये च नः स्वपत्याय देव दितिं च रास्वादितिमुरुष्य ॥
Transliteration: cittimacittiṃ cinavadvi vidvānpṛṣṭheva vītā vṛjinā ca martān | rāye ca naḥ svapatyāya deva ditiṃ ca rāsvāditimuruṣya ||
Translation: May the wise Agni discriminate between virtue and vice between (virtuous and wicked) men, as a (groom distinguishes between) the strong and weak backs (of horses); enrich us with wealth accompanied by virtuous offspring; be bountiful to the liberal giver; shun him who gives not.
Mandala 4, Sukta 2, Verse 12
Sanskrit: कविं शशासुः कवयोऽदब्धा निधारयन्तो दुर्यास्वायोः । अतस्त्वं दृश्याँ अग्न एतान्पड्भिः पश्येरद्भुताँ अर्य एवैः ॥
Transliteration: kaviṃ śaśāsuḥ kavayo'dabdhā nidhārayanto duryāsvāyoḥ | atastvaṃ dṛśyā~ agna etānpaḍbhiḥ paśyeradbhutā~ arya evaiḥ ||
Translation: The unveiled sages abiding in the dwellings of man have glorified the sage (Agni); therefore, lord of sacrifice, you may proceed with swift-moving feet to behold the admirable and marvellous deities.
Mandala 4, Sukta 2, Verse 13
Sanskrit: त्वमग्ने वाघते सुप्रणीतिः सुतसोमाय विधते यविष्ठ । रत्नं भर शशमानाय घृष्वे पृथु श्चन्द्रमवसे चर्षणिप्राः ॥
Transliteration: tvamagne vāghate supraṇītiḥ sutasomāya vidhate yaviṣṭha | ratnaṃ bhara śaśamānāya ghṛṣve pṛthu ścandramavase carṣaṇiprāḥ ||
Translation: Resplendent Agni, young of the gods, the satisfier of (the desires of) men, who are easily to be conducted (to the altar), bestow joy-yielding and abundant wealth for his preservation upon the worshipper who praises and worships you and offers you libations.
Mandala 4, Sukta 2, Verse 14
Sanskrit: अधा ह यद्वयमग्ने त्वाया पड्भिर्हस्तेभिश्चकृमा तनूभिः । रथं न क्रन्तो अपसा भुरिजोॠतं येमुः सुध्य आशुषाणाः ॥
Transliteration: adhā ha yadvayamagne tvāyā paḍbhirhastebhiścakṛmā tanūbhiḥ | rathaṃ na kranto apasā bhurijoṝtaṃ yemuḥ sudhya āśuṣāṇāḥ ||
Translation: Therefore, Agni, when we labour for you with hands and feet, and all our members, the pious performers of rites, (the Aṅgirasas), exercise their arms in the work (of attrition), as wheelwrights fabricate a car.
Mandala 4, Sukta 2, Verse 15
Sanskrit: अधा मातुरुषसः सप्त विप्रा जायेमहि प्रथमा वेधसो नॄन् । दिवस्पुत्रा अङ्गिरसो भवेमाद्रिं रुजेम धनिनं शुचन्तः ॥
Transliteration: adhā māturuṣasaḥ sapta viprā jāyemahi prathamā vedhaso nṝn | divasputrā aṅgiraso bhavemādriṃ rujema dhaninaṃ śucantaḥ ||
Translation: May we seven priests first in order engender from the material drawn the worshippers of the creator (Agni); may we Aṅgirasas be the sons of heaven, and, radiant, divide the wealth-continuing mountain.
Mandala 4, Sukta 2, Verse 16
Sanskrit: अधा यथा नः पितरः परासः प्रत्नासो अग्न ऋतमाशुषाणाः । शुचीदयन्दीधितिमुक्थशासः क्षामा भिन्दन्तो अरुणीरप व्रन् ॥
Transliteration: adhā yathā naḥ pitaraḥ parāsaḥ pratnāso agna ṛtamāśuṣāṇāḥ | śucīdayandīdhitimukthaśāsaḥ kṣāmā bhindanto aruṇīrapa vran ||
Translation: Thus, Agni, our excellent and ancient forefathers, celebrators of holy sacrifice, proceeded to (the region of) pure light, and, reciting prayers and dispersing gloom, they made manifest the purple (kine).
Mandala 4, Sukta 2, Verse 17
Sanskrit: सुकर्माणः सुरुचो देवयन्तोऽयो न देवा जनिमा धमन्तः । शुचन्तो अग्निं ववृधन्त इन्द्रमूर्वं गव्यं परिषदन्तो अग्मन् ॥
Transliteration: sukarmāṇaḥ suruco devayanto'yo na devā janimā dhamantaḥ | śucanto agniṃ vavṛdhanta indramūrvaṃ gavyaṃ pariṣadanto agman ||
Translation: Performers of good works, brilliant and devout, the praises of the gods have freed their birth from impurity, as (a smith heats) bronze; exciting Agni, elevating Indra, and wandering about (in search), they have gone to the vast (hidden) herd of cattle.
Mandala 4, Sukta 2, Verse 18
Sanskrit: आ यूथेव क्षुमति पश्वो अख्यद्देवानां यज्जनिमान्त्युग्र । मर्तानां चिदुर्वशीरकृप्रन्वृधे चिदर्य उपरस्यायोः ॥
Transliteration: ā yūtheva kṣumati paśvo akhyaddevānāṃ yajjanimāntyugra | martānāṃ cidurvaśīrakṛpranvṛdhe cidarya uparasyāyoḥ ||
Translation: Fierce (Agni), when (Indra) proclaimed the near presence of the herd of the kine of the divine (Aṅgirasas) as a herd of cattle in a well-stored stall, the progeny of mortals were thereby enabled (to perform pious acts), and the master of the family rendered competent to (provide for) the increase of posterity and (the support of) dependants.
Mandala 4, Sukta 2, Verse 19
Sanskrit: अकर्म ते स्वपसो अभूम ऋतमवस्रन्नुषसो विभातीः । अनूनमग्निं पुरुधा सुश्चन्द्रं देवस्य मर्मृजतश्चारु चक्षुः ॥
Transliteration: akarma te svapaso abhūma ṛtamavasrannuṣaso vibhātīḥ | anūnamagniṃ purudhā suścandraṃ devasya marmṛjataścāru cakṣuḥ ||
Translation: We have worshipped you (Agni), and have thereby become the performers of a good work, adoring the full and variously delighting Agni, the beautiful lustre of the radiant divinity, when the brilliant dawns have arrayed (themselves) in light.
Mandala 4, Sukta 2, Verse 20
Sanskrit: एता ते अग्न उचथानि वेधोऽवोचाम कवये ता जुषस्व । उच्छोचस्व कृणुहि वस्यसो नो महो रायः पुरुवार प्र यन्धि ॥
Transliteration: etā te agna ucathāni vedho'vocāma kavaye tā juṣasva | ucchocasva kṛṇuhi vasyaso no maho rāyaḥ puruvāra pra yandhi ||
Translation: Creator, Agni, we have repeated these your praises to you who are all-wise; do you accept them;blaze aloft; make us opulent; do you who are worshipped by many bestow upon us ample wealth.
Mandala 4, Sukta 3, Verse 1
Sanskrit: आ वो राजानमध्वरस्य रुद्रं होतारं सत्ययजं रोदस्योः । अग्निं पुरा तनयित्नोरचित्ताद्धिरण्यरूपमवसे कृणुध्वम् ॥
Transliteration: ā vo rājānamadhvarasya rudraṃ hotāraṃ satyayajaṃ rodasyoḥ | agniṃ purā tanayitnoracittāddhiraṇyarūpamavase kṛṇudhvam ||
Translation: Secure Agni, the king of sacrifice, the afflicter (of foes), the invoker (of the gods), the distributor of food through heaven and earth, the golden-formed, for your protection before (surprised by) sudden death.
Mandala 4, Sukta 3, Verse 2
Sanskrit: अयं योनिश्चकृमा यं वयं ते जायेव पत्य उशती सुवासाः । अर्वाचीनः परिवीतो नि षीदेमा उ ते स्वपाक प्रतीचीः ॥
Transliteration: ayaṃ yoniścakṛmā yaṃ vayaṃ te jāyeva patya uśatī suvāsāḥ | arvācīnaḥ parivīto ni ṣīdemā u te svapāka pratīcīḥ ||
Translation: This is the altar which we have decorated for you, as a wife attached to her husband puts on elegant garments (to gratify him); maturer of good works, sit down in our presence invested (with radiance), while your flames incline towards you.
Mandala 4, Sukta 3, Verse 3
Sanskrit: आशृण्वते अदृपिताय मन्म नृचक्षसे सुमृऴीकाय वेधः । देवाय शस्तिममृताय शंस ग्रावेव सोता मधुषुद्यमीऴे ॥
Transliteration: āśṛṇvate adṛpitāya manma nṛcakṣase sumṛḻīkāya vedhaḥ | devāya śastimamṛtāya śaṃsa grāveva sotā madhuṣudyamīḻe ||
Translation: Repeat, oḥ priest, the praise, the prayer, to the attentive, the affable Agni, the beholder of man, the giver of felicity, the divine, the immortal; to him whom the effuser of the libation, like the (bruising) stone, adores aloud.
Mandala 4, Sukta 3, Verse 4
Sanskrit: त्वं चिन्नः शम्या अग्ने अस्या ऋतस्य बोध्यृतचित्स्वाधीः । कदा त उक्था सधमाद्यानि कदा भवन्ति सख्या गृहे ते ॥
Transliteration: tvaṃ cinnaḥ śamyā agne asyā ṛtasya bodhyṛtacitsvādhīḥ | kadā ta ukthā sadhamādyāni kadā bhavanti sakhyā gṛhe te ||
Translation: You Agni, preside over this our rite; do you who are cognizant of truth, and the author of good works, recognize this our adoration, whenever these exhilarating prayers (are addressed) to you whenever friendly relations with you are (established) in our dwelling.
Mandala 4, Sukta 3, Verse 5
Sanskrit: कथा ह तद्वरुणाय त्वमग्ने कथा दिवे गर्हसे कन्न आगः । कथा मित्राय मीऴ्हुषे पृथिव्यै ब्रवः कदर्यम्णे कद्भगाय ॥
Transliteration: kathā ha tadvaruṇāya tvamagne kathā dive garhase kanna āgaḥ | kathā mitrāya mīḻhuṣe pṛthivyai bravaḥ kadaryamṇe kadbhagāya ||
Translation: Why, Agni, do you reproach us (for our sin) to Varuṇa, why to the heaven? what is our offence? why repeat it to the bountiful Mitra, to earth, to Aryaman, or to Bhaga?
Mandala 4, Sukta 3, Verse 6
Sanskrit: कद्धिष्ण्यासु वृधसानो अग्ने कद्वाताय प्रतवसे शुभंये । परिज्मने नासत्याय क्षे ब्रवः कदग्ने रुद्राय नृघ्ने ॥
Transliteration: kaddhiṣṇyāsu vṛdhasāno agne kadvātāya pratavase śubhaṃye | parijmane nāsatyāya kṣe bravaḥ kadagne rudrāya nṛghne ||
Translation: Why repeat it when exalted in holy ceremonies? why tell it to the mighty, benevolent, circumambient, truthful wind? why, Agni, to earth, why to man-destroying Rudra?
Mandala 4, Sukta 3, Verse 7
Sanskrit: कथा महे पुष्टिम्भराय पूष्णे कद्रुद्राय सुमखाय हविर्दे । कद्विष्णव उरुगायाय रेतो ब्रवः कदग्ने शरवे बृहत्यै ॥
Transliteration: kathā mahe puṣṭimbharāya pūṣṇe kadrudrāya sumakhāya havirde | kadviṣṇava urugāyāya reto bravaḥ kadagne śarave bṛhatyai ||
Translation: Why to the great and nutriment-conveying Pūṣan? why to Rudra, the object of worship, the giver of the oblation (to the gods)? why to the many-hymned Viṣṇu? why tell our sin to the extensive year?
Mandala 4, Sukta 3, Verse 8
Sanskrit: कथा शर्धाय मरुतामृताय कथा सूरे बृहते पृच्छ्यमानः । प्रति ब्रवोऽदितये तुराय साधा दिवो जातवेदश्चिकित्वान् ॥
Transliteration: kathā śardhāya marutāmṛtāya kathā sūre bṛhate pṛcchyamānaḥ | prati bravo'ditaye turāya sādhā divo jātavedaścikitvān ||
Translation: Why tell it to the veracious company of the Maruts? why, even when asked, to the mighty sun? why repeat it to Aditi, or to the swift wind? fulfil, all-knowing Jātavedas, (the worship) of heaven.
Mandala 4, Sukta 3, Verse 9
Sanskrit: ऋतेन ऋतं नियतमीऴ आ गोरामा सचा मधुमत्पक्वमग्ने । कृष्णा सती रुशता धासिनैषा जामर्येण पयसा पीपाय ॥
Transliteration: ṛtena ṛtaṃ niyatamīḻa ā gorāmā sacā madhumatpakvamagne | kṛṣṇā satī ruśatā dhāsinaiṣā jāmaryeṇa payasā pīpāya ||
Translation: I solicit, Agni, the milk of the cow, essential for the sacrifice; yet immature, (she possesses) the sweet and ripe (fluid); black though she be, yet with her white nutritious milk she maintains mankind in existence.
Mandala 4, Sukta 3, Verse 10
Sanskrit: ऋतेन हि ष्मा वृषभश्चिदक्तः पुमाँ अग्निः पयसा पृष्ठ्येन । अस्पन्दमानो अचरद्वयोधा वृषा शुक्रं दुदुहे पृश्निरूधः ॥
Transliteration: ṛtena hi ṣmā vṛṣabhaścidaktaḥ pumā~ agniḥ payasā pṛṣṭhyena | aspandamāno acaradvayodhā vṛṣā śukraṃ duduhe pṛśnirūdhaḥ ||
Translation: The male Agni, the showerer (of benefits), has been sprinkled by the genitive ine sustaining milk; the giver of food proceeds unswerving (from his course), and the sun, the shedder of rain, has milked the white (fluid) of the udder (of the firmament).
Mandala 4, Sukta 3, Verse 11
Sanskrit: ऋतेनाद्रिं व्यसन्भिदन्तः समङ्गिरसो नवन्त गोभिः । शुनं नरः परि षदन्नुषासमाविः स्वरभवज्जाते अग्नौ ॥
Transliteration: ṛtenādriṃ vyasanbhidantaḥ samaṅgiraso navanta gobhiḥ | śunaṃ naraḥ pari ṣadannuṣāsamāviḥ svarabhavajjāte agnau ||
Translation: By the sacrifice, the Aṅgirasas, rending the mountain asunder, have thrown it open, and returned with the cows; the leaders (of holy rites) have arrived happily at the dawn, and the sun was manifest as Agni was engendered.
Mandala 4, Sukta 3, Verse 12
Sanskrit: ऋतेन देवीरमृता अमृक्ता अर्णोभिरापो मधुमद्भिरग्ने । वाजी न सर्गेषु प्रस्तुभानः प्र सदमित्स्रवितवे दधन्युः ॥
Transliteration: ṛtena devīramṛtā amṛktā arṇobhirāpo madhumadbhiragne | vājī na sargeṣu prastubhānaḥ pra sadamitsravitave dadhanyuḥ ||
Translation: By sacrifice, Agni, the divine rivers, immortal, unobstructed, continue perpetually to flow with sweet waters, like a horse that is being urged in his speed.
Mandala 4, Sukta 3, Verse 13
Sanskrit: मा कस्य यक्षं सदमिद्धुरो गा मा वेशस्य प्रमिनतो मापेः । मा भ्रातुरग्ने अनृजोॠणं वेर्मा सख्युर्दक्षं रिपोर्भुजेम ॥
Transliteration: mā kasya yakṣaṃ sadamiddhuro gā mā veśasya praminato māpeḥ | mā bhrāturagne anṛjoṝṇaṃ vermā sakhyurdakṣaṃ riporbhujema ||
Translation: Go not ever, Agni, to the sacrifice of any one who injures us; nor to that of a malevolent neighbour, nor to that of an (unnatural) relation; accept not the due (oblation) from an insincere brother; let us not derive enjoyment from the enemy of a friend.
Mandala 4, Sukta 3, Verse 14
Sanskrit: रक्षा णो अग्ने तव रक्षणेभी रारक्षाणः सुमख प्रीणानः । प्रति ष्फुर वि रुज वीड्वंहो जहि रक्षो महि चिद्वावृधानम् ॥
Transliteration: rakṣā ṇo agne tava rakṣaṇebhī rārakṣāṇaḥ sumakha prīṇānaḥ | prati ṣphura vi ruja vīḍvaṃho jahi rakṣo mahi cidvāvṛdhānam ||
Translation: Agni, worthily worshipped, counservator, conciliated (by our offerings), protect us with your protections; enlighten us; entirely extirpate our sin; overcome the great and exulting rākṣasas.
Mandala 4, Sukta 3, Verse 15
Sanskrit: एभिर्भव सुमना अग्ने अर्कैरिमान्त्स्पृश मन्मभिः शूर वाजान् । उत ब्रह्माण्यङ्गिरो जुषस्व सं ते शस्तिर्देववाता जरेत ॥
Transliteration: ebhirbhava sumanā agne arkairimāntspṛśa manmabhiḥ śūra vājān | uta brahmāṇyaṅgiro juṣasva saṃ te śastirdevavātā jareta ||
Translation: Be propitiated, Agni, by these hymns, accept, hero, these (sacrificial) viands (presented) with praises; be plural ased, Aṅgiras, by our prayers; may the adoration addressed to the gods exalt you. (Taittirīya Samhitā 10.62.5)
Mandala 4, Sukta 3, Verse 16
Sanskrit: एता विश्वा विदुषे तुभ्यं वेधो नीथान्यग्ने निण्या वचांसि । निवचना कवये काव्यान्यशंसिषं मतिभिर्विप्र उक्थैः ॥
Transliteration: etā viśvā viduṣe tubhyaṃ vedho nīthānyagne niṇyā vacāṃsi | nivacanā kavaye kāvyānyaśaṃsiṣaṃ matibhirvipra ukthaiḥ ||
Translation: Agni, creator, to you who are wise, acquainted with the past, I address, oḥ sage, these soliciting mysterious words, (these) ever-to-be-recited poems, together with praises and prayers.
Mandala 4, Sukta 4, Verse 1
Sanskrit: कृणुष्व पाजः प्रसितिं न पृथ्वीं याहि राजेवामवाँ इभेन । तृष्वीमनु प्रसितिं द्रूणानोऽस्तासि विध्य रक्षसस्तपिष्ठैः ॥
Transliteration: kṛṇuṣva pājaḥ prasitiṃ na pṛthvīṃ yāhi rājevāmavā~ ibhena | tṛṣvīmanu prasitiṃ drūṇāno'stāsi vidhya rakṣasastapiṣṭhaiḥ ||
Translation: Put forth your strength, Agni, as a fowler spreads a capacious snare; proceed like a king attended by his followers on his elephant; you are the scatterer (of your foes); following the swift-moving host consume the rākṣasas with your fiercest flames.
Mandala 4, Sukta 4, Verse 2
Sanskrit: तव भ्रमास आशुया पतन्त्यनु स्पृश धृषता शोशुचानः । तपूंष्यग्ने जुह्वा पतंगानसंदितो वि सृज विष्वगुल्काः ॥
Transliteration: tava bhramāsa āśuyā patantyanu spṛśa dhṛṣatā śośucānaḥ | tapūṃṣyagne juhvā pataṃgānasaṃdito vi sṛja viṣvagulkāḥ ||
Translation: Your swift and errant flames descend (on everyside); fierce-shining with vigour consume (the foe); scatter, Agni, with the ladle (of oblation), scorching flames and sparks, and brands.
Mandala 4, Sukta 4, Verse 3
Sanskrit: प्रति स्पशो वि सृज तूर्णितमो भवा पायुर्विशो अस्या अदब्धः । यो नो दूरे अघशंसो यो अन्त्यग्ने माकिष्टे व्यथिरा दधर्षीत् ॥
Transliteration: prati spaśo vi sṛja tūrṇitamo bhavā pāyurviśo asyā adabdhaḥ | yo no dūre aghaśaṃso yo antyagne mākiṣṭe vyathirā dadharṣīt ||
Translation: Do you, who are most rapid, direct your (flames) against opposing (rays), and, unresisted, become the protector of this your people against the calumniator who is remote or who is nigh; let no malevolent (foe) prevail against us (who are) your worshippers.
Mandala 4, Sukta 4, Verse 4
Sanskrit: उदग्ने तिष्ठ प्रत्या तनुष्व न्यमित्राँ ओषतात्तिग्महेते । यो नो अरातिं समिधान चक्रे नीचा तं धक्ष्यतसं न शुष्कम् ॥
Transliteration: udagne tiṣṭha pratyā tanuṣva nyamitrā~ oṣatāttigmahete | yo no arātiṃ samidhāna cakre nīcā taṃ dhakṣyatasaṃ na śuṣkam ||
Translation: Sharp-weaponed Agni, rise up; spread wide (your flames) against (the rākṣasas); entirely consume the foes; blazing Agni, burn down him who acts as an enemy towards us like a piece of dry timber.
Mandala 4, Sukta 4, Verse 5
Sanskrit: ऊर्ध्वो भव प्रति विध्याध्यस्मदाविष्कृणुष्व दैव्यान्यग्ने । अव स्थिरा तनुहि यातुजूनां जामिमजामिं प्र मृणीहि शत्रून् ॥
Transliteration: ūrdhvo bhava prati vidhyādhyasmadāviṣkṛṇuṣva daivyānyagne | ava sthirā tanuhi yātujūnāṃ jāmimajāmiṃ pra mṛṇīhi śatrūn ||
Translation: Rise up, Agni, chastise those who overpower us; manifest your divine energies; slacken the strone (bow strings) of the malignant kings; destroy those (who are hostile), whether kindred or unallied.
Mandala 4, Sukta 4, Verse 6
Sanskrit: स ते जानाति सुमतिं यविष्ठ य ईवते ब्रह्मणे गातुमैरत् । विश्वान्यस्मै सुदिनानि रायो द्युम्नान्यर्यो वि दुरो अभि द्यौत् ॥
Transliteration: sa te jānāti sumatiṃ yaviṣṭha ya īvate brahmaṇe gātumairat | viśvānyasmai sudināni rāyo dyumnānyaryo vi duro abhi dyaut ||
Translation: He experiences your good favour, young (of the gods), who offers praise to you a Brahman, coming quickly (to bestow felicity); to him are all prosperous days and wealth (of cattle) and treasures; do you as the lord of sacrifice, shine upon his dwelling.
Mandala 4, Sukta 4, Verse 7
Sanskrit: सेदग्ने अस्तु सुभगः सुदानुर्यस्त्वा नित्येन हविषा य उक्थैः । पिप्रीषति स्व आयुषि दुरोणे विश्वेदस्मै सुदिना सासदिष्टिः ॥
Transliteration: sedagne astu subhagaḥ sudānuryastvā nityena haviṣā ya ukthaiḥ | piprīṣati sva āyuṣi duroṇe viśvedasmai sudinā sāsadiṣṭiḥ ||
Translation: May the liberal man ever be prosperous who propitiate you with constant oblations and praises; may all the days in his arduous life be prosperous, and may this (his) sacrifice be (productive of reward).
Mandala 4, Sukta 4, Verse 8
Sanskrit: अर्चामि ते सुमतिं घोष्यर्वाक्सं ते वावाता जरतामियं गीः । स्वश्वास्त्वा सुरथा मर्जयेमास्मे क्षत्राणि धारयेरनु द्यून् ॥
Transliteration: arcāmi te sumatiṃ ghoṣyarvāksaṃ te vāvātā jaratāmiyaṃ gīḥ | svaśvāstvā surathā marjayemāsme kṣatrāṇi dhārayeranu dyūn ||
Translation: I reverence your good favour, Agni; may this reiterated and resounding hymn convey due praise to your presence; may we be possessed of good horses and good cars, that we may pay you homage; and do you daily bestow upon us riches.
Mandala 4, Sukta 4, Verse 9
Sanskrit: इह त्वा भूर्या चरेदुप त्मन्दोषावस्तर्दीदिवांसमनु द्यून् । क्रीऴन्तस्त्वा सुमनसः सपेमाभि द्युम्ना तस्थिवांसो जनानाम् ॥
Transliteration: iha tvā bhūryā caredupa tmandoṣāvastardīdivāṃsamanu dyūn | krīḻantastvā sumanasaḥ sapemābhi dyumnā tasthivāṃso janānām ||
Translation: May every one of his own accord diligently worship you, shining in the (hall) morning and evening, every day; thus, sporting in our dwellings, (enjoying) the wealth (of hostile) man, may we with happy hearts worship you.
Mandala 4, Sukta 4, Verse 10
Sanskrit: यस्त्वा स्वश्वः सुहिरण्यो अग्न उपयाति वसुमता रथेन । तस्य त्राता भवसि तस्य सखा यस्त आतिथ्यमानुषग्जुजोषत् ॥
Transliteration: yastvā svaśvaḥ suhiraṇyo agna upayāti vasumatā rathena | tasya trātā bhavasi tasya sakhā yasta ātithyamānuṣagjujoṣat ||
Translation: You Agni, are the protector of him who, possessed of good horses and a golden car, approaches you with a chariot laden with wealth; you are the friend of him who gratifies you be the due performance of hospitality to you.
Mandala 4, Sukta 4, Verse 11
Sanskrit: महो रुजामि बन्धुता वचोभिस्तन्मा पितुर्गोतमादन्वियाय । त्वं नो अस्य वचसश्चिकिद्धि होतर्यविष्ठ सुक्रतो दमूनाः ॥
Transliteration: maho rujāmi bandhutā vacobhistanmā piturgotamādanviyāya | tvaṃ no asya vacasaścikiddhi hotaryaviṣṭha sukrato damūnāḥ ||
Translation: Invoker (of the gods), young (of the deities) possessed of excellent wisdom, through the alliance (with you produced) by holy texts, which came to me from my father Gotama, I demolish the powerful (demons); do you who are the humbler (of foes), be cognizant of our praises.
Mandala 4, Sukta 4, Verse 12
Sanskrit: अस्वप्नजस्तरणयः सुशेवा अतन्द्रासोऽवृका अश्रमिष्ठाः । ते पायवः सध्र्यञ्चो निषद्याग्ने तव नः पान्त्वमूर ॥
Transliteration: asvapnajastaraṇayaḥ suśevā atandrāso'vṛkā aśramiṣṭhāḥ | te pāyavaḥ sadhryañco niṣadyāgne tava naḥ pāntvamūra ||
Translation: All-wise Agni, may your protecting (rays), unslumbering alert, propitious, unslothful, benignant, unwearied, co-operating, having taken their plural ce (at this sacrifice), preserve us.
Mandala 4, Sukta 4, Verse 13
Sanskrit: ये पायवो मामतेयं ते अग्ने पश्यन्तो अन्धं दुरितादरक्षन् । ररक्ष तान्त्सुकृतो विश्ववेदा दिप्सन्त इद्रिपवो नाह देभुः ॥
Transliteration: ye pāyavo māmateyaṃ te agne paśyanto andhaṃ duritādarakṣan | rarakṣa tāntsukṛto viśvavedā dipsanta idripavo nāha debhuḥ ||
Translation: Those your protecting (rays), Agni, which, beholding (what had chanced), preserved the blind son of Mamatā from misfortune; he, knowing all things, cherished those benevolent (rays), and his enemies, intending to destroy him, wrought him no harm.
Mandala 4, Sukta 4, Verse 14
Sanskrit: त्वया वयं सधन्यस्त्वोतास्तव प्रणीत्यश्याम वाजान् । उभा शंसा सूदय सत्यतातेऽनुष्ठुया कृणुह्यह्रयाण ॥
Transliteration: tvayā vayaṃ sadhanyastvotāstava praṇītyaśyāma vājān | ubhā śaṃsā sūdaya satyatāte'nuṣṭhuyā kṛṇuhyahrayāṇa ||
Translation: Agni, who are freed from shame, by you we are made opulent; by you we are protected; may we, through your guidance, attain abundant food; cherisher of truth, destroy both (sorts of calumniators), those who are nigh, those who are far off, and in due course fulfil (our desires).
Mandala 4, Sukta 4, Verse 15
Sanskrit: अया ते अग्ने समिधा विधेम प्रति स्तोमं शस्यमानं गृभाय । दहाशसो रक्षसः पाह्यस्मान्द्रुहो निदो मित्रमहो अवद्यात् ॥
Transliteration: ayā te agne samidhā vidhema prati stomaṃ śasyamānaṃ gṛbhāya | dahāśaso rakṣasaḥ pāhyasmāndruho nido mitramaho avadyāt ||
Translation: May we propitiate you, Agni, by this fuel; accept the praise that is recited by us; consume the unadoring rākṣasas; you are to be honoured by (your) friends, preserve us from the reproach of the oppressor and the reviler.
Mandala 4, Sukta 5, Verse 1
Sanskrit: वैश्वानराय मीऴ्हुषे सजोषाः कथा दाशेमाग्नये बृहद्भाः । अनूनेन बृहता वक्षथेनोप स्तभायदुपमिन्न रोधः ॥
Transliteration: vaiśvānarāya mīḻhuṣe sajoṣāḥ kathā dāśemāgnaye bṛhadbhāḥ | anūnena bṛhatā vakṣathenopa stabhāyadupaminna rodhaḥ ||
Translation: How may we present rejoicing (fit offering) to Agni the showerer (of benefits); to Vaiśvānara, he, who, bright with great lustre, sustains the heaven, with his entire vast and insupportable (bulk), as a pillar (sustains a roof).
Mandala 4, Sukta 5, Verse 2
Sanskrit: मा निन्दत य इमां मह्यं रातिं देवो ददौ मर्त्याय स्वधावान् । पाकाय गृत्सो अमृतो विचेता वैश्वानरो नृतमो यह्वो अग्निः ॥
Transliteration: mā nindata ya imāṃ mahyaṃ rātiṃ devo dadau martyāya svadhāvān | pākāya gṛtso amṛto vicetā vaiśvānaro nṛtamo yahvo agniḥ ||
Translation: Reproach not the divine (Agni), who, accepting the oblation, has given this wealth to me, his mortal (worshipper) of mature (intellect); Agni, who is wise, immortal, discriminating, (who is) Vaiśvānara, chief conductor (of rites), the mighty.
Mandala 4, Sukta 5, Verse 3
Sanskrit: साम द्विबर्हा महि तिग्मभृष्टिः सहस्ररेता वृषभस्तुविष्मान् । पदं न गोरपगूऴ्हं विविद्वानग्निर्मह्यं प्रेदु वोचन्मनीषाम् ॥
Transliteration: sāma dvibarhā mahi tigmabhṛṣṭiḥ sahasraretā vṛṣabhastuviṣmān | padaṃ na gorapagūḻhaṃ vividvānagnirmahyaṃ predu vocanmanīṣām ||
Translation: May Agni, filling both (the middling and most excellent condition), bright shining, of manifold vigour, the showerer of (benefits), the possessor of affluence, (who comprehends), by (his) wisdom the mysterious sacred hymn, as (they track) the footsteps of a (missing) cow, reveal (the sense) to me.
Mandala 4, Sukta 5, Verse 4
Sanskrit: प्र ताँ अग्निर्बभसत्तिग्मजम्भस्तपिष्ठेन शोचिषा यः सुराधाः । प्र ये मिनन्ति वरुणस्य धाम प्रिया मित्रस्य चेततो ध्रुवाणि ॥
Transliteration: pra tā~ agnirbabhasattigmajambhastapiṣṭhena śociṣā yaḥ surādhāḥ | pra ye minanti varuṇasya dhāma priyā mitrasya cetato dhruvāṇi ||
Translation: May the sharp-toothed Agni, possessed of excellent wealth, consume with his fierce radiance those (adversaries) who injure the firm and valued glories of the sapient Varuṇa and Mitra.