Do not, mother, bear what you have carried, the ancestral host, driving folk upon folk and beholding; you grow old in years when you give, and with mind turned you seek hostile forms.

When, everywhere predominating, you cherish all men like a mother, and (are implored by all) to behold and to support them; and when, being detained, you mature every kind of food, then, multiform (Agni), you comprise (all beings) in yourself.

When, like a mother, spreading forth to nourish, to cherish and regard each man that liveth,- Consuming all the strength that thou hast gotten, thou wanderest round, thyself, in varied fashion.