How can our minds please you, Agni? What hymn will bring us the greatest blessing? Or who has gained your favor through sacrifices? With what mindset shall we offer you oblations?
Come near to me, Agni; sit as Hotar; be our leader who has never been deceived. May Heaven and Earth, the all-pervading, love you: worship the gods to win their favor.
Burn up all the Rākṣasas, O Agni; ward off curses from our sacrifices. Bring here with his Bays the Lord of Soma: here is a warm welcome for the Generous Giver.
You, Priest with lips and voice that bring us children, have been invoked. Sit with the gods. Your task is to cleanse and present; awaken us, Wealth-bestower and Producer.
Just as you offered oblations to the gods with the priests, a sage with sages, So now, O most truthful Invoker Agni, let us worship today with a ladle bestowing joy.