Rig Veda, 10th Mandala, Anuvāka I, Sūkta 1, Stanzas 1 and 2
"The great fire from the beginning of the dawn has sprung aloft, and issuing forth from the darkness has come with radiance. Agni, the bright-bodied, as soon as born, fills all dwellings with shining light.
When born, you, O Agni, are the embryo of heaven and earth, beautiful, borne about in the plants; variegated, infantine, you disperse the nocturnal glooms; you issue roaring loudly from the maternal (sources). "
Ṛgveda Saṁhitā, Vol. IV
According to the translation of H. H. Wilson and Bhāṣya of Sāyaṇācārya
Edited and revised by Ravi Prakash Arya and K. L. Joshi
Parimal Publications, Delhi, 1997
