Godlike and not‑godlike, the god goes forth into the cave which he perceives—this is immortality. I abandon what is gentle and unkind; I cast off the circle of intimate friendship, I leave the navel.

(Agni speaks). From being no divinity I issue a divninty from the cave at the solicitation (of the gods),and being manifest I attain immortality; when being inauspicious I abandon the sacrifice as it becomesauspicious, through my (old) friendship I come to the binding touch-wood.

I come a God foreseeing from the godless to immortality by secret pathways, While I, ungracious one, desert the gracious, leave mine own friends and seek the kin of strangers.