Indeed purity with the pure, purity famed, known by sacrificial power. The wise uphold his rites firmly; thus he rises like the wind.

The pure regulator (of the sacrifice) is born verily together with the holy act; the wise (worshipper) performs all his, (Agni's), prescribed rites in succession, as the branches spring (from a common stem).

Together with pure mental power, pure, as Director, was he born. Skilled in his own unchanging laws he waxes like the growing boughs.