They invoke him whom the seers exalt, whom the sages, kindled by fire, purify. The father who made the son honored comes near; the hot sacrifice, O Agni, bestows immortality and approaches.

The vessel which the priests, celebrating (it), supply with butter, as if roasting a marrow-yielding animal with fire, has been plural ced, desirous of the sacrifice, upon the fire, like a son upon the lap of his father.

As on his father's lap the son, the darling, so on the fire is set the sacred caldron, Which holy singers deck, as if extending and heating that which holds the fatty membrane.