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Rig Veda 3.28: AGNI who knowest all, accept our offering and the cake of meal

by The Rishis of the Rig Veda c. 1500–1000 BCE (traditional; uncertain)

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896) · From The Hymns of the Rigveda (1896)

Religion

AGNI who knowest all, accept our offering and the cake of meal,
At dawn's libation, rich in prayer!

Agni, the sacrificial cake hath been prepared and dressed for thee:
Accept it, O Most Youthful God.

Agni, enjoy the cake of meal and our oblation three days old:
Thou, Son of Strength, art stablished at our sacrifice.

Here at the midday sacrifice enjoy thou the sacrificial cake, wise, Jatavedas!
Agni, the sages in assemblies never diminish the portion due to thee the Mighty.

O Agni, at the third libation take with joy the offered cake of sacrifice, thou, Son of Strength.
Through skill in song bear to the Gods our sacrifice, watchful and fraught with riches, to Immortal God.

O waxing Agni, knower, thou, of all, accept our gifts, the cake,
And that prepared ere yesterday.

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MLA

Veda, The Rishis of the Rig. “Rig Veda 3.28: AGNI who knowest all, accept our offering and the cake of meal.” Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rigveda-rishis/260/.

Chicago

Veda, The Rishis of the Rig. “Rig Veda 3.28: AGNI who knowest all, accept our offering and the cake of meal.” Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/rigveda-rishis/260/.

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