Sukta 4

Mantra 1

त्वामग्ने वसुपतिं वसूनामभि प्र मन्दे अध्वरेषु राजन् । त्वया वाजं वाजयन्तो जयेमाभि ष्याम पृत्सुतीर्मर्त्यानाम् ॥

You, O Agni, lord of the riches of being, I invoke with delight in the offerings, O king. By you, increasing the vāja (plenitude of force), may we conquer; may we become overcomers of the mortal battle-pressures.

Mantra 4

जुषस्वाग्न इळया सजोषा यतमानो रश्मिभिः सूर्यस्य । जुषस्व नः समिधं जातवेद आ च देवान्हविरद्याय वक्षि ॥

Accept, O Agni, with Iḷā in one accord, striving with the rays of the Sun. Accept our kindling, O knower of births; and bring the gods here for the eating of the offering—today, into our work.

Mantra 5

जुष्टो दमूना अतिथिर्दुरोण इमं नो यज्ञमुप याहि विद्वान् । विश्वा अग्ने अभियुजो विहत्या शत्रूयतामा भरा भोजनानि ॥

O Agni, made glad and at home in the dwelling, the knowing Guest—come near to this our sacrifice. Having struck down all who press upon us in hostility, bring to us the enjoyments: the nourishings and plenitudes that sustain the inner being.

Mantra 6

वधेन दस्युं प्र हि चातयस्व वयः कृण्वानस्तन्वे स्वायै । पिपर्षि यत्सहसस्पुत्र देवान्त्सो अग्ने पाहि नृतम वाजे अस्मान् ॥

By thy slaying force drive forth and shatter the Dasyu within us; fashion wide room and free flight for our own embodied being. Since thou upholdest the gods, O son of Might, therefore, O Agni, protect us—O best leader of men—in the plenitude of force.

Mantra 7

वयं ते अग्न उक्थैर्विधेम वयं हव्यैः पावक भद्रशोचे । अस्मे रयिं विश्ववारं समिन्वास्मे विश्वानि द्रविणानि धेहि ॥

We serve thee, O Agni, with uplifted words; we serve thee with offerings, O Purifier of happy flame. In us increase the rayi that is desirable in all ways; in us place all the riches—every inward possession of the Truth.

Mantra 8

अस्माकमग्ने अध्वरं जुषस्व सहसः सूनो त्रिषधस्थ हव्यम् । वयं देवेषु सुकृतः स्याम शर्मणा नस्त्रिवरूथेन पाहि ॥

Accept, O Agni, our path of offering—O son of Might, who abidest in the triple seat—accept the oblation. May we be doers of the good among the gods; guard us with thy peace, with thy threefold sheltering protection.

Mantra 9

विश्वानि नो दुर्गहा जातवेदः सिन्धुं न नावा दुरिताति पर्षि । अग्ने अत्रिवन्नमसा गृणानोऽस्माकं बोध्यविता तनूनाम् ॥

All our hard passages, O Jātavedas, carry us across beyond the distress, as a boat crosses the river. O Agni, praised with obeisance like Atri, awaken as the protector of our embodied lives.

Mantra 10

यस्त्वा हृदा कीरिणा मन्यमानोऽमर्त्यं मर्त्यो जोहवीमि । जातवेदो यशो अस्मासु धेहि प्रजाभिरग्ने अमृतत्वमश्याम् ॥

He who, being mortal, calls thee the Immortal with heart and with the singing word—O Jātavedas, place in us the glory of the true becoming; and with the powers of begetting, O Agni, may we attain immortality.

Mantra 11

यस्मै त्वं सुकृते जातवेद उ लोकमग्ने कृणवः स्योनम् । अश्विनं स पुत्रिणं वीरवन्तं गोमन्तं रयिं नशते स्वस्ति ॥

For whom thou, O Jātavedas, makest a happy world-room, O Agni, because he is a doer of the good—he attains, in well-being, the swift moving force, the power of sons, the heroic strength, the light-cows, and the rayi: the plenitude of being.