An accompaniment to the offering of a Mixt Oblation

1Let the streams flow together, let the winds and birds assembled come. Strengthen this sacrifice of mine, ye singers. I offer up a duly mixt oblation.

2O Burnt Oblations, aid, and ye, Blent Offerings, this my sacrifice. Strengthen this sacrifice of mine, ye singers. I offer up a duly mixt oblation.

3Each several form, each several force I seize, and compass round this man. May the Four Quarters strengthen this my sacrifice. I offer up a duly mixt oblation.

A hymn to all waters

1Blest be the Streams from hills of snow, sweet be spring Waters unto thee. Sweet be swift-running Waters, sweet to thee be Water of the Rains.

2Sweet unto thee be Waters of the waste and Waters of the pool. Sweet be the Waters dug from earth, to thee, and Waters brought in jars.

3To those who delve without a tool to dig, the wise, the deeply moved, To Waters better healers than physicians we address our prayer.

4Bathed in the Waters verily divine, in water of the streams, Bathed in the Waters verily, O Horses, be ye fleet and strong.

5Blest be the Waters unto thee, suspicious Waters, bringing. health. They cure the injured place for thee even as thy comfort craveth it.

A hymn to Agni for protection and prosperity

1Whithersoe’er, from sky, earth, air’s mid-regions from plants ands herbs, from tall trees, Jātavedas. Is carried here and there to divers places, even thence come thou to us with loving-kindness.

2All majesty of thine in floods, in forest, in plants, in cattle, in the depths of waters Closely uniting all thy forms, O Agni, come unto us wealth-giving, undecaying.

3Thy majesty among the Gods in Svarga, thy body which hath past into the Fathers. Thy plenty far-diffused mid human beings, even with this, O Agni, give us riches.

4To him the wise, the famous, swift to listen, with words and verses I come nigh for bounty. May we be safe from threatening danger. Soften by sacrifice the-wrath of Gods, O Agni.

A prayer, accompanying sacrifice, for the attainment of a wish

1The first oblation that Atharvan oared, earliest sacrifice paid by Jātavedas, Even this I, foremost, with repeated worship, now offer unto thee. May Agni carry the sacrificer’s present. Hail to Agni!

2In front I set Intention, blessed Goddess. Mother of thought, may she be prompt to hear us. Mine, and mine only, be the hope I fashion! May I gain this that hath possessed my spirit.

3With Purpose, O Prajāpati, with Purpose come thou near to us. Bestow on us a share of luck, and so be swift to hear our call.

4Prajāpati Angirasa with favour regard this word and this my settled purpose! May he, whence Gods and Deities had being Kāma attend us with his gentle guidance.