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Rigveda Samhita — Mandala 5 — Chapter 20

RV 5 20.1

यम् अग्ने वाजसातम त्वꣳ चिन् मन्यसे रयिम् । तꣳ नो गीर्भिः श्रवाय्यꣳ देवत्रा पनया युजम्

yam agne vājasātama tvaṁ cin manyase rayim | taṁ no gīrbhiḥ śravāyyaṁ devatrā panayā yujam

What wealth, O Agni, best winner of prizes, you yourself deem (wealth) — that, worthy of fame, praise for us with our songs as our ally among the gods.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

AGNI, best winner of the spoil, cause us to praise before the Gods As our associate meet for lauds, wealth which thou verily deemest wealth.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 5 20.2

ये अग्ने नेरयन्ति ते वृद्धा उग्रस्य शवसः । अप द्वेषो अप ह्वरो ऽन्यव्रतस्य सश्चिरे

ye agne nerayanti te vṛddhā ugrasya śavasaḥ | apa dveṣo apa hvaro 'nyavratasya saścire

Those who do not stir you, O Agni, grown great by the might of the fierce one — away with hatred, away with crookedness: they have attached themselves to him of another vow.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Agni, the great who ward not off the anger of thy power and might Stir up the wrath and hatred due to one who holds an alien creed.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 5 20.3

होतारꣳ त्वा वृणीमहे ऽग्ने दक्षस्य साधनम् । यज्ञेषु पूर्व्यꣳ गिरा प्रयस्वन्तो हवामहे

hotāraṁ tvā vṛṇīmahe 'gne dakṣasya sādhanam | yajñeṣu pūrvyaṁ girā prayasvanto havāmahe

We choose you as hotṛ, O Agni, the accomplisher of skill; at the sacrifices we, bringing offerings, call you, the foremost one, with a song.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Thee, Agni, would we choose as Priest, the perfecter of strength and skill; We who bring sacred food invoke with song thee Chief at holy rites.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 5 20.4

इत्था यथा त ऊतये सहसावन् दिवे-दिवे । राय ऋताय सुक्रतो गोभिः ष्याम सधमादो वीरैः स्याम सधमादः

itthā yathā ta ūtaye sahasāvan dive-dive | rāya ṛtāya sukrato gobhiḥ ṣyāma sadhamādo vīraiḥ syāma sadhamādaḥ

So that, just thus, for your help, O powerful one, day by day, for wealth, for ṛta, O you of good resolve — may we be feasting together with cows, may we be feasting together with heroes.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Here as is needful for thine aid we toil, O Conqueror, day by day, For wealth, for Law. May we rejoice, Most Wise One! at the feast, with kine, rejoice, with heroes, at the feast.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)