Rigveda 10.087.20
Rigveda · Mandala 10, Sukta 87 · Verse 10.87.20
Vedic Classification
Sanskrit Original
त्वं नो॑ अग्ने अध॒रादुद॑क्ता॒त्त्वं प॒श्चादु॒त र॑क्षा पु॒रस्ता॑त् । प्रति॒ ते ते॑ अ॒जरा॑स॒स्तपि॑ष्ठा अ॒घशं॑सं॒ शोशु॑चतो दहन्तु
tvaṃ no agne adharādudaktāttvaṃ paścāduta rakṣā purastāt prati te te ajarāsastapiṣṭhā aghaśaṃsaṃ śośucato dahantu
From beneath and from behind you protect us, Agni; from before protect us. Let the ageless, enduring (fires) immolate the foul and purify the polluted.
Do you, Agni, protect us on the south, on the north, on the west, and on the east; may these, yourundecaying, scorching, blazing (flames), consume the perpetrator of wickedness.
Guard us, O Agni, from above and under, protect us fl-om behind us and before us; And may thy flames, most fierce and never wasting, glowing with fervent heat, consume the sinner.