b. These are wings unaging of thee, the winged, Wherewith thou dost smite away the Raksases, O Agni; With these may we fly to the world of good men, Where are the seers, the first-born, those of yore.
c. Thou art piling, born of the ocean, the drop, The skilled one, the eagle, the righteous, The golden-winged busy bird, mighty, That hath sat down firmly in its place [1].
d. Homage be to thee; harm me not, Thou dost stand resting on the head of all; Within the ocean is thy heart, thy life; Sky and earth are placed on the worlds.
e. Give of the water, cleave the holder of the water; from the sky, from Parjanya, from the atmosphere, from the earth, thence do ye help us with rain; thou art the head of the sky, the navel of earth, the strength of waters and plants, protection of all life, extending; homage to the way!
f. With that devotion wherewith the seers performed the session of sacrifice [2], Kindling Agni, bearing aloft the heaven, I set on this vault that Agni Whom men call him for whom the spread is strewed.
g. Him with our wives let us pursue, O gods, With our sons, our brothers, or by gold, Seizing the vault in the world of good action, Above the third firmament, in the light of the sky.
h. To the middle of speech hath the busy one arisen, Agni here, lord of the good, the wise; Established on the back of the earth, the radiant one, He casteth beneath his feet [3] the combatants.
i. Let Agni here, the most manly, strength-bestowing, Of a thousand shapes, shine unwearying, Radiant in the midst of the ocean; Do ye approach the abodes divine.
k. Move ye forward, go ye long together; Make ye the paths gods travelled, O Agni; In this highest abode O All-gods, sit ye with the sacrificer.
l. That by which thou bearest a thousand, Thou, O Agni, all wealth, With that highest (path) for the gods to travel, Do thou bear this sacrifice for us.
m. Awake, O Agni; be roused for him; With this one do thou create sacrifice and donation; Making thee, his father, young again He hath stretched over thee this covering.
n. This is thy due place of birth, Whence born thou didst shine, Mount it, O Agni, knowing it, And make our wealth increase.