b. Ye are water; may I share your water. Ye are greatness, may I share your greatness; ye are might, may I share your might; ye are strength, may I share your strength.
c. Ye wealthy ones, stay in this place, this fold, this dwelling, this birthplace; be ye here; go not hence; be many for me [1].
d. Thou art composed of every form; enter me with strength, with lordship of kine, with increase of wealth.
e. May I prosper with your thousandfold prosperity; may your wealth rest in me.
f. To thee, O Agni, day by day, That shinest in the darkness, with our devotion, We come bearing honour.
g. Lord of the sacrifices, Guardian of holy order, shining, Waxing in his own horne.
h. O Agni, be of easy access to us, As a father to his son; Befriend us for prosperity.
i. O Agni [2] be thou our nearest, Our protector, kindly, a shield; Thee, O shining and most radiant one, We implore for favour, for our friends; Agni, bright, of bright fame, Come hither in thy greatest splendour and give us wealth.
k. With strength I gaze on you; gaze on me with strength. With increase of wealth I gaze on you; gaze on me with increase of wealth.
l. Ye are food, making sweetness; kindly enter me, nourishment and drink; may I prosper with your thousandfold prosperity [3], may your wealth rest on me,
m. That excellent glory of Savitr The god we meditate, That be may stimulate our prayers.'
n. Make famous the Soma-presser, O lord of prayer, Even as (thou did make famous) Kaksivant Aueija.
o. Never art thou barren, O Indra, Never dost thou fail thy worshipper; Now more and more is thy divine gift increased, O bountiful one.
p. May we set thee around us, O Agni, The sage, the strong, as a fort, Of daring hue, day by day Destroyer of that which may be broken.
q. O Agni, lord of the house, through thee as lord of the house, may I be a good lord of the house; through me as lord of the house, mayst thou be a good lord of the house; for a hundred winters, this blessing I invoke, bringing light for the race; this blessing I invoke, bringing light for N. N.