MANDALA I, HYMN 75.

ASHTAKA I, ADHYAYA 5, VARGA .3.

1. Accept gladly our most widely-sounding speech, the most agreeable to the gods, thou who, in thy mouth, offerest the sacrificial food (to the gods).

2. And may we then pronounce to thee, O highest Angiras, Agni, best worshipper, a prayer agreeable to thee and successful.

3. Who is thy kinsman among men, O Agni? Who performs worship to thee ? Who art thou, and where dost thou rest?

4. Thou, O Agni, art the kinsman, the dear friend ('Mitra') of men, a friend who is to be magnified by his friends.

5. Sacrifice for us to Mitra and Varuna. Sacrifice to the gods, (a sacrifice conforming to) the great Rita . Sacrifice, O Agni, to thy own house.

NOTES.

The same Rishi and metre.--Verse 1 = TB. III, 6, 7, 1; MS. III, 10, 1 (IV, 13, 5). Verses 3-5 = SV. II, 885-887. Verse 5. = VS. XXXIII, 3; TB. II, 7, 12, 1.

Verse 1.

Note [1:75:1:1]1. Comp. VI, 68, 9. manma ... saprathah.

Verse 3.

Note [1:75:3:1]1. May we not take dasu-adhvara as a compound with governed final member, like vidadvasu, sadadyoni &c.?

Verse 5.

Note [1:75:5:1]1. Comp. Gaedicke, Der Accusativ im Veda, 159.