Atharvaveda 11.1

O Agni, be thou born; Aditi here, suppliant, cooks a brahmán-rice-dish, desiring sons; the seven seers, being-makers—let them churn thee here together with progeny.

Make ye smoke, O ye bulls, companions, ye that are aided by the unhateful (?), unto speech; this Agni [is] fight-overpowering, having good heroes, by whom the gods overpowered the barbarians.

O Agni, thou hast been born unto great heroism, unto the cooking of the brahmán-rice-dish, O Jātavedas; the seven seers, being-makers—they have given thee birth; do thou confirm to this woman wealth with all heroes.

Kindled, O Agni, be thou kindled with kindling (samídh); mayest thou bring hither, knowing, the worshipful gods; for them cooking (çrā) the oblation, O Jātavedas, make thou this man to ascend to the highest firmament (nā́ka).

Threefold is set down the share that is yours of old—of gods, of Fathers, of mortals; know ye the portions (áṅça); I share them out to you; that one that is the gods' shall set this woman across.

O Agni, powerful, overcoming, thou overcomest; put down (ni-ubj) [our] hating rivals; let this measure (mā́trā), being measured, and measured, make [thy] fellows tribute-bringers to thee.

In company with thy fellows, be thou united with milk; urge her up unto great heroism; ascend aloft to the summit (viṣṭáp) of the firmament (nā́ka), which they call by the name heavenly world.

Let this great one (mahī́) accept the hide, the divine earth, with favoring mind; then may we go to the world of the well-done.

Join thou on the hide these two allied stones; split apart the shoots (aṅçú) successfully for the sacrificer; smiting down, smite them that would fight her; bearing up thy progeny aloft, lift up.

Seize in thy hand, O hero, the two joint-acting (sakṛ́t) stones; the worshipful gods have come to thy sacrifice; three boons, whichsoever thou choosest—those successes do I here make successful for thee.

This [is] thy thought (? dhītí) and this thy place of birth; let Aditi, of hero-sons, seize thee; cleanse away them that would fight her; confirm to her wealth with all heroes.

Sit ye in the wooden blower (? upaçvasá); be ye winnowed, worshipful ones, from the husks. By fortune (çrī́) may we surpass all [our] equals; I make [our] haters to fall under foot.

Go away, woman; come back quickly; the stall (goṣṭhá) of the waters hath ascended thee for bearing; seize then of them ⌊f.⌋ whichever shall be worshipful; having shared [them] out wisely, then leave the others.

These maidens (yoṣít) have come, adorning themselves; stand up, woman, take hold of the mighty one; well-spoused with husband, progeny-possessing with progeny; to thee hath come the sacrifice; receive thou the vessel (kumbhá).

The portion of refreshment (ū́rj) [is] set down which [is] yours of old; do thou, instructed by the seer, bring these waters; let this sacrifice be for you progress-gaining (gātu-víd), refuge-gaining, progeny-gaining, formidable, cattle-gaining, hero-gaining.

O Agni, the worshipful pot hath ascended thee; bright (çúci), very hot, do thou heat it with heat; let those of the seers, those of the gods, gathering unto their share, very hot, heat this with the seasons.

Let these cleansed, purified, worshipful maidens, the waters, beauteous ones, creep down to the pot; they have given us abundant progeny, cattle; let the cooker of the rice-dish go to the world of the well-doers.

Cleansed with prayer (bráhman) and purified with ghee, shoots of Soma [are] these worshipful rice-grains; enter ye the waters; let the pot receive you; having cooked this, go ye to the world of the well-doers.

Spread thyself broad, with great greatness, thousand-backed, in the world of the well-done: grandfathers, fathers, progeny, descendants (upajā́): I am thy fifteen-fold cooker.

Thousand-backed, hundred-streamed, unexhausted, [is] the brahmán-rice-dish, god-traveled, heaven-going; them yonder I assign to thee; lessen (?) thou them with progeny; be gracious then to me [as] bringer of tribute.

Go thou up to the sacrificial hearth; increase her with progeny; push [away] the demon; set her further forward; by fortune may we surpass all [our] equals; I make [our] haters to fall under foot.

Turn thou toward her together with cattle; be opposite to her together with the divinities; let not curse attain thee, nor witchcraft (abhicārá); bear rule (vi-rāj) in thine own field (kṣétra), free from disease.

Fashioned by righteousness (ṛtá), set by mind, this was ordained in the beginning the sacrificial hearth of the brahmán-rice-dish; apply, O woman, the cleansed shoulder-bearer (?); on that set the rice-dish of them of the gods.

Aditi's hand, this second ladle (srúc), which the seven seers, being-makers, made—let that spoon, knowing the members of the rice-dish, collect it upon the sacrificial hearth.

Let them of the gods sit by thee, a cooked (çṛtá) oblation; having crept out of the fire, sit thou forward again to them; purified by soma, sit thou in the belly of the worshipers (brahmán); let not them of the seers, partakers (prāçitṛ́) of thee, suffer harm.

O king Soma, strew harmony for them, for whatsoever good Brahmans shall sit by thee; with good call, I call loudly to the brahmán-rice-dish the seers, them of the seers, born from penance (tápas).

These cleansed purified worshipful maidens I seat in separate succession in the hands of the priests (brahmán); with what desire I now pour you on, may Indra here with the Maruts grant me that.

This my light (jyótis), immortal gold, cooked (pakvá) from the field, this my desire-milker; this riches I deposit in the Brahmans; I make a road to the Fathers that is heaven-going.

Strew thou the husks in the fire, in Jātavedas; wipe off far away the chaff (? kambū́kān); this we have heard to be the share of the house-king; also we know the portion (bhāgadhéya) of Perdition (nírṛti).

Know thou the toiling, cooking, soma-pressing one; make him to ascend the heaven-going road, by which he may ascend, arriving at the vigor that is beyond, to the highest firmament, to the furthest vault (vyòmati).

Wipe off, O serving priest (adhvaryú), this face of the bearing one (? babhrí); make thou, understanding it, room for the sacrificial butter; wipe off with ghee along all [its] members; I make a road to the Fathers that is heaven-going.

O bearing one, [as] a demon, strew discord for them, for whatsoever non-Brahmans shall sit by thee; rich in ground (? purīṣín), spreading themselves forward, let not them of the seers, partakers of thee, suffer harm.

I set thee down, O rice-dish, among them of the seers; for them that are not of the seers there is no portion here; let Agni my guardian, and all the Maruts, let all the gods defend the cooked [offering].

The offering, yielding milk (duh), constantly full (prápīna), a male (púmāṅs) milch-cow, seat of wealth, immortality through offspring, and a long life-time—and may we sit by thee with abundance (pl.) of wealth.

Thou art a heaven-going bull; go to the seers, to them of the seers; sit in the world of the well-doing; there is there preparation (saṁskṛtá) for us both.

Gather thou together unto, go thou together forth after; O Agni, make ready (kalpay-) the roads traveled by the gods; by them, well-made, may we go after the offering, that stands upon the seven-rayed firmament.

With what light the gods went up to the sky, having cooked the brahmán-rice-dish, to the world of the well-done, with that may we go to the world of the well-done, ascending the heaven, unto the highest firmament.