Rigveda 1.071.10
Rigveda · Mandala 1, Sukta 71 · Verse 1.71.10
Vedic Classification
Sanskrit Original
मा नो॑ अग्ने स॒ख्या पित्र्या॑णि॒ प्र म॑र्षिष्ठा अ॒भि वि॒दुष्क॒विः सन् । नभो॒ न रू॒पं ज॑रि॒मा मि॑नाति पु॒रा तस्या॑ अ॒भिश॑स्ते॒रधी॑हि
mā no agne sakhyā pitryāṇi pra marṣiṣṭhā abhi viduṣkaviḥ san nabho na rūpaṃ jarimā mināti purā tasyā abhiśasteradhīhi
Do not, Agni, withhold the ancestral friendships; grant the kindly-endeared seers their share. The sky does not disdain form; long ago it measured out for them the bounds and the wise received it.
Dissolve not, Agni, our ancestral friendship, for you are cognizant of the past as well as of the present; in like manner as light (speeds over) the sky, so decay impairs (my body); think of me before that source of destruction (prevails).
O Agni, break not our ancestral friendship, Sage as thou art, endowed with deepest knowledge. Old age, like gathering cloud, impairs the body: before that evil be come nigh protect me.