2 Tanunapat, fair−tongued, with sweet meath balming the paths and waysof Order, make them pleasant. 3 Invoked, deserving prayer and adoration, O Agni, come accordant with the Vasus. 4 By rule the Sacred Grass is scattered eastward, a robe to clothe this earth when dawns are breaking. 5 Let the expansive Doors be widely opened, like wives who deck their beauty for their husbands. 6 Pouring sweet dews let holy Night and Morning, each close to each, he seated at their station, 7 Come the two first celestial sweet−voiced Hotars, arranging sacrifice for man to worship 8 Let Bharati come quickly to our worship, and Ila showing like a human being. 9 Hotar more skilled in sacrifice, bring hither with speed to−day God Tvastar, thou who knowest. 10 Send to our offerings which thyself thou balmest the Companies of Gods in ordered season. 11 Agni, as soon as he was born, made ready the sacrifice, and was the Gods' preceder.RV 110 (3) · Rig Veda · null
RV 110 (3)
Rig Veda · translated by Ralph T.H. Griffith
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Full fifty more from Athens stem the main, Led by Menestheus through the liquid plain. (Athens the fair, where great Erectheus sway’d, That owed his nurture to the blue-eyed maid, But from the teeming furrow took his birth, The mighty offspring of the foodful earth. Him Pallas placed amidst her wealthy fane, Adored with sacrifice and oxen slain; Where, as the years revolve, her altars blaze, And all the tribes resound the goddess’ praise.) No chief like thee, Menestheus! Greece could yield, To marshal armies in the dusty field, The extended wings of battle to display, Or close the embodied host in firm array. Nestor alone, improved by length of days, For martial conduct bore an equal praise.Iliad 2.41 · Iliad · 2
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