Savitri
A Legend and a Symbol

Canto 4Hymns of Bharadwaja · Mandala Six — Suktas 1–16

Book 1. Part One: Hymns to the Mystic Fire

1. O potent Fire, thou wert the first thinker of this thought and
the priest of the call. O Male, thou hast created everywhere
around thee a force invulnerable to overpower every force.
2. And now strong for sacrifice, thou hast taken thy session in
5the seat of aspiration, one aspired to, a flamen of the call, an
imparter of the impulse. Men, building the godheads, have
grown conscious of thee, the chief and first, and followed
to a mighty treasure.
3. In thee awake, they followed after the Treasure as in the
10wake of one who walks on a path with many possessions,
in the wake of the vast glowing visioned embodied Fire that
casts its light always and for ever.
4. Travellers with surrender to the plane of the godhead, seek-
ers of inspired knowledge, they won an inviolate inspiration,
15they held the sacrificial Names and had delight in thy happy
vision.
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5. The peoples increase thee on the earth; both kinds of riches
of men increase thee. O Fire, our pilot through the battle,
40thou art the deliverer whom we must know, ever a father
and mother to human beings.
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6. Dear and servable is this Fire in men; a rapturous priest of
the call has taken up his session, strong for sacrifice. Pressing
the knee may we come to thee with obeisance of surrender
when thou flamest alight in the house.
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vy
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yo
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s
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anyo
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7. O Fire, we desire thee, the god to whom must rise our cry,
we the right thinkers, the seekers of bliss, the builders of
the godheads. O Fire, shining with light thou leadest men
through the vast luminous world of heaven.
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Ev
pEt
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100vtFnA
Entofn
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qB
cq
105ZFnAm
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pAvk
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110ryFZAm
8. To the seer, the Master of creatures who rules over the eter-
nal generations of peoples, the Smiter, the Bull of those that
see, the mover to the journey beyond who drives us, the
purifying Flame, the Power in the sacrifice, Fire the Regent
115of the Treasures!
Hymns of Bharadwaja
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1409. O Fire, the mortal has done his sacrifice and achieved his
labour who has worked out the gift of the oblation with the
fuel of thy flame and wholly learned the way of the offering
by his prostrations of surrender; he lives in thy guard and
holds in himself all desirable things.
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10. O Fire, O Son of Force, may we offer to thy greatness that
which is great, worshipping thee with the obeisance and
175the fuel and the offering, the altar and the word and the
utterance. For we would work and strive in thy happy right
thinking, O Fire.
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11. O thou who art filled with inspiration and a passer of
barriers, O thou who hast extended earth and heaven by
the wideness of thy light and thy inspired discoveries of
200knowledge, shine wider yet in us with thy large and solid
and opulent amassings, O Fire.
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12. O Prince of Riches, fix always in us that in which are the
Gods, settle here many herds for the begotten son. In us
may there be the happy things of true inspiration and the
230multitude of the large impulsions from which evil is far.
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13. O King, O Fire, let me enjoy by thee and thy princehood of
the riches many riches in many ways; for, O Fire of many
blessings, there are many treasures for thy worshipper in
thee, the King.
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1. O Fire, thou travellest like a friend to the glory where is our
home. O wide-seeing Prince of the Treasure, thou nurturest
280our inspiration and our growth.
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2. Men who see aspire to thee with the word and the sac-
300rifice. To thee comes the all-seeing Horse that crosses the
mid-world, the Horse that no wolf tears.
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mAn
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3. The Men of Heaven with a single joy set thee alight to be
the eye of intuition of the sacrifice when this human being,
320this seeker of bliss, casts his offering in the pilgrim Rite.
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4. The mortal should grow in riches who achieves the work by
the Thought for thee, the great giver; he is in the keeping of
340the Vast Heaven and crosses beyond the hostile powers and
their evil.
Hymns of Bharadwaja
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5. O Fire, when mortal man arrives by the fuel of thy flame to
the way of the oblation and the sharpening of thy intensities,
he increases his branching house, his house of the hundred
360of life.
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6. The smoke from thy blaze journeys and in heaven is out-
stretched brilliant-white. O purifying Fire, thou shinest with
a flame like the light of the sun.
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7. Now art thou here in men, one to be aspired to and a beloved
guest; for thou art like one delightful and adorable in the
city and as if our son and a traveller of the triple world.
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gyo'yo
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8. O Fire, thou art driven by the will in our gated house like
a horse apt for our work; thou art by thy nature like a far-
spreading mansion and like a galloper of winding ways and
425a little child.
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tA'n
430pf
n
yvs
DAmA
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435yt
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ajr
vnA
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440cEt
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9. O Fire, thou art like a beast in thy pasture and devourest
even the unfallen things; the lustres of thy blaze tear to pieces
the woodlands, O ageless Flame.
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10. O Fire, thou comest a priest of the call into the house of
men that do the Rite of the Path. Make us complete in the
treasure, O Master of men! O Angiras flame-seer, rejoice in
our oblation.
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voc
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mEt
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11. O Fire, O friendly Light, O Godhead, turn to the Godheads,
mayst thou speak for us the true thought of Earth and
500Heaven; move to the peace and the happy abode and the
men of Heaven. Let us pass beyond the foe and the sin and
the stumbling; let us pass beyond these things, pass in thy
keeping through them safe.
SUKTA 3
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1. The mortal who longs for the Godhead shall take up his
530home with thee, O Fire, he is born into the Truth and a
guardian of the Truth and comes to thy wide Light, — he
in whom thou being Varuna takest with Mitra a common
delight and thou guardest that mortal, O God, by thy casting
away from him of evil.
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2. He has sacrificed with sacrifices, he has achieved his labour
by his works, he has given to the Fire whose boons grow
555Hymns of Bharadwaja
ever in opulence. And so there befalls him not the turning
away of the Glorious Ones; evil comes not to him nor the
insolence of the adversary.
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3. Faultless is thy seeing like the sun’s; terrible marches thy
thought when blazing with light thou neighest aloud like a
force of battle. This Fire was born in the pleasant woodland
and is a rapturous dweller somewhere in the night.
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m
mEh
vpo
595ay
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vo
n
ymsAn
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hmAn
prf
n
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AvyEt
610dAz
Dt
4. Fiery-sharp is his march and great his body, — he is like a
horse that eats and champs with his mouth: he casts his
tongue like an axe to every side, like a smelter he melts the
615log that he burns.
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v
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jo'yso
n
DArAm
625EcD
jEtrrEtyo
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630q7A
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pmj
hA
5. He sets like an archer his shaft for the shooting, he sharpens
635his power of light like an edge of steel. He is the traveller of
the night with rich rapid movements; he has thighs of swift
motion and is like a bird that settles on a tree.
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vt
645u*A
foEcqA
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EmmhA
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EdvA
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6. This friendly Light is like a singer of the word and clothes
himself with the Rays, he rhapsodises with his flame. This
665is the shining One who journeys by night and by day to the
Gods, the shining Immortal who journeys through the day
to the Gods.
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7. The cry of him is like the voice of ordaining Heaven;1 he
695is the shining Bull that bellows aloud in the growths of the
forest. He goes with his light and his race and his running
and fills Earth and Heaven with his riches; they are like
wives happy in their spouse.
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720qo
rBsAno
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8. He flashes like the lightning with his own proper strengths,
his own founding and helpful illuminations. As if heaven’s
725craftsman he has fashioned the army of the Life-Gods and
lightens ablaze in his exultant speed.
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1. O Son of Force, O priest of the call, even as always in man’s
forming of the godhead thou sacrificest with his sacrifices,
sacrifice so for us to the gods today, O Fire, an equal power
to equal powers, one who desires to the gods who desire.
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vtorEnv
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2. He is wide in his light like a seer of the Day; he is the one we
780must know and founds an adorable joy. In him is universal
life, he is the Immortal in mortals; he is the Waker in the
Dawn, our Guest, the Godhead who knows all births that
are.
1 Or, the cry of him in his worship of sacrifice is like the voice of Heaven;
785Hymns of Bharadwaja
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3. The heavens seem to praise his giant might; he is robed in
lustres and brilliant like the Sun. Ageless the purifying Fire
moves abroad and cuts down even the ancient things of the
810Devourer.2
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4. O Son, thou art the speaker, thy food is thy seat; Fire from
835his very birth has made his food the field of his race. O
Strength-getter, found strength in us! Thou conquerest like
a king and thy dwelling is within, there where there comes
not any render.
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8605. He eats his food and sharpens his sword of defence; he is
like the Life-God a master of kingdoms and passes beyond
the nights. O Fire, may we pierce through the foe, O thou
who breakest like a galloping steed all that battle against
thy appointings, hurting around thee our hurters as they
865fall upon us.
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rodsF
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BAsA
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tmA
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885pm3OEfjo
n
dFyn
6. O Fire, thou art like the Sun with thy splendid illuminations
and hast wide extended Earth and Heaven with thy light.
890Smeared with lustre,3 rich in brilliance he shepherds away
the darknesses and like a son of the desire of the Gods rushes
onward in his march.
2 Or, the Enjoyer.
3 Or, anointed with light,
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md
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fok
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mh
mEh
n
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p
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915rADsA
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tmA
7. We have chosen thee most rapturous with the flaming lights
of thy illuminations; O Fire, hear for us that which is great.
920O Godhead of Fire, the most strong Gods fill thee like Indra
with might and like the Life-God with riches.
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9508. O Fire, thou journeyest happily to the treasures by paths
where the wolf rends not, and carriest us beyond all evils.
These high things thou givest to the luminous wise; thou
lavishest the bliss on him who voices thee with the word.
May we revel in the rapture, strong with the strength of the
955Heroes, living a hundred winters.
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1. I call to you by my thoughts Fire, the youngest of the gods
in whose words is no bale, the Youth, the Son of Force. He
is a mind of the knowledge free from all that hurts; his gifts
are many and he journeys to the riches where all boons are.
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2. O Priest of the call, priest with thy many flame-forces,4 in
the night and in the light the Lords of sacrifice cast on thee
their treasures. As in earth are founded all the worlds, they
1010founded all happinesses in the purifying Fire.
4 Or, forms of flame,
Hymns of Bharadwaja
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Ev
1015Edv
sFd
aAs
5vA
rTFrBvo
1020vAyA
ZAm
at
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EvDt
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yAn
qjAtv
do
vs
En
3. Thou art the Ancient of Days and hast taken thy seat in these
peoples and becomest by the will their charioteer of desir-
able things. O Conscient, O thou who knowest all births
1035that are, thou walkest wide for thy worshipper in unbroken
order to the Treasures.
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n
sn
aEBdAsdn
yo
atro
Emmho
yAt
tmjr
EBv
qEBtv
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tEpS
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10554. O Fire, O friendly Light, O most burning Power, the enemy
who is hidden and would destroy us, the enemy who is
within us and would conquer, leap fiery-forceful with thy
affliction of flame and consume him with thy male and
ageless fires.
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10855. When man gives to thee with the sacrifice and the fuel and
with his spoken words and his chants of illumination, he
becomes, O Immortal, O Son of Force, a mind of knowledge
among mortals and shines with the riches and inspiration
and light.
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6. Missioned create that swiftly, O Fire. Force is thine, re-
1110sist with thy force our confronters. When revealed by thy
lights, thou art formulated by our words, rejoice in the
far-sounding thought of thy adorer.
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kAmmn
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7. O Fire, may we possess in thy guard that high desire, — pos-
sess, O Lord of the treasures, that Treasure and its heroes,
possess replenishing thee thy plenitude, possess, O ageless
Fire, thy ageless light.
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1. Man turns with a new sacrifice to the Son of Force when he
desires the Way and the guard. He arrives in his journeyings
to the heavenly priest of the call, the priest shining with
light, but black is his march through the forests he tears.
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2. He grows white and thunderous, he stands in a luminous
world; he is most young with his imperishable clamouring
fires. This is he that makes pure and is full of his multitudes
1185and, even as he devours, goes after the things that are many,
the things that are wide.
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3. O Fire, thy lights range wind-impelled on every side, pure as
1210thou art pure. Many things they violate and break in their
rashness and enjoy the forests of their pleasure, heavenly
lights, seers of the ninefold ray.
Hymns of Bharadwaja
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4. O Fire of the burning purities, pure and flaming-bright are
1240these thy horses that loosed to the gallop raze the earth.
Then wide is thy wandering and its light shines far as it
drives them up to the dappled Mother’s heights.
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goq
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nAfEn
s
jAnA
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AEtrn
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t
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mo
1265dyt
vnAEn
5. Then the tongue of the Bull leaps constantly like the
thunderbolt loosed of the God who fights for the herds
of the Light. The destruction of Fire is like the charge of
1270a hero; he is terrible and irresistible, he hews the forests
asunder.
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BAn
nA
1275pAET
vAEn
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mhtody
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vn
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6. Thou hast spread out the earthly speed-ranges by thy light
and the violence of thy mighty scourge. Repel by thy forceful
powers all dangerous things; turn to conquer those who
1300would conquer us, shatter our confronters.
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vyoDAm
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13207. O rich in thy brilliances, Fire with thy manifold luminous
mights, rivet to us the rich and various treasure, most richly
diverse, that awakens us to knowledge and founds our ex-
panding growth. O delightful God, to him who voices thee
with delightful words the vast delightful wealth and its many
1325hero keepers!
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1. Head of heaven and traveller of the earth a universal Power
1350was born to us in the Truth, a Guest of men, a seer and
absolute King; the Gods brought to birth universal Fire and
made him in the mouth a vessel of the oblation.
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13702. All they together came to him, a navel knot of sacrifice, a
house of riches, a mighty point of call in the battle. Chario-
teer of the Works of the way, eye of intuition of the sacrifice,
the Gods brought to birth the universal Godhead.
vd
1375Evo
jAyt
vA6yn
vd
vFrAso
1380aEBmAEtqAh
v
#
vAnr
vmmAs
Eh
vs
$
En
1390rAjp
hyA?yAEZ
3. O Fire, from thee is born the Seer, the Horse and of thee are
the Heroes whose might overcomes the adversary. O King,
O universal Power, found in us the desirable treasures.
Ev
v
am
t
1400jAymAn
Eff
n
d
vA
1405aEB
s
nvt
tv
5t
1410EBrm
tvmAyn
v
#
vAnr
EpordFd
4. O Immortal, all the Gods come together to thee in thy birth
as to a new-born child. O universal Power, they travelled
to immortality by the works of thy will when thou leapedst
1420alight from the Father and Mother.
Hymns of Bharadwaja
v
#
vAnr
tAEn
v
tAEn
mhAyn
1430nEkrA
dDq
y6jAymAn
EpozpT
'Evd
t
vy
n
v>Am
14405. O Fire, universal Godhead, none could do violence to the
laws of thy mighty workings because even in thy birth in
the lap of the Father and the Mother thou hast discovered
the light of intuition of the Days in manifested things.5
v
vAnry
EvEmtAEn
csA
sAn
En
Edvo
am
ty
t
nA
ty
d
vA
B
vnAED
m
D
En
vyA
iv
1470zzh
sP
Ev*
h
6. The heights of heaven were measured into form by the eye
1475of this universal Force, they were shaped by the intuition of
the Immortal. All the worlds are upon his head; the seven
far-flowing rivers climbed from him like branches.
Ev
yo
1480rjA
yEmmFt
s
5t
v
vAnro
Ev
Edvo
rocnA
1490kEv
pEr
yo
Ev
vA
vnAEn
pT
'dNDo
gopA
ty
rEtA
7. The Universal mighty of will measured into form the king-
doms of middle space; a Seer, he shaped the luminous planes
1505of Heaven. He has spread around us all these worlds; he is
the guardian of immortality and its indomitable defender.
SUKTA 8
p
y
Zo
azqy
n
$
n
voc
EvdTA
jAtv
v
#
vAnrAy
mEtn
1525 ysF
f
Ec
som
iv
1530pvt
cAzrny
1. Now have I spoken aloud the force of the brilliant Male
who fills the world, the discoveries of knowledge of the
god who knows all things that are. A new and pure and
1535beautiful thought is streaming like sacramental wine to Fire,
the universal Godhead.
5 Or, in all sorts of knowledge.
s
jAymAn
1540prm
yomEn
v
tAyEnv
tpA
1545art
ytErmEmmFt
s
5t
v
vAnro
mEhnA
nAkmp
ft
15552. Fire is the guardian of the laws of all workings and he kept
safe the laws of his action and motion even in the moment of
his birth in the supreme ether. The Universal mighty of will
measured into shape the middle world and touched heaven
with his greatness.
1560 yt|Ad
rodsF
Emo
aY
to'tvA
1565vdk
Zo66yoEtqA
tm
Ev
cm
1570ZFv
EDqZ
avt
yd
v
vAnro
Ev
vmD1
v
1580@ym
3. The Wonderful, the Friend propped up earth and heaven
and made the darkness a disappearing thing by the Light. He
rolled out the two minds like skins; the Universal assumed
every masculine might.
1585apAm
pT
mEhqA
ag
Zt
1590Evfo
rAjAnm
p
tT
-
1595Emym
aA
d
$
to
1600aEnmBrd
Evvvto
v
#
vAnr
1605mAtEr
vA
prAvt
4. The Great Ones seized him in the lap of the waters and
the Peoples came to the King with whom is the illumining
1610Word. Messenger of the luminous Sun, Life that expands in
the Mother brought Fire the universal Godhead from the
supreme Beyond.
y
g
g
EvdLy
g
Zd
1620 yo'n
rEy
yfs
D
Eh
1625n ysFm
p y
v
rAj3Gf
smjr
1630nFcA
En
v
c
vEnn
t
jsA
5. Found for those who from age to age speak the word that
is new, the word that is a discovery of knowledge, O Fire,
1640their glorious treasure; but cut him in twain who is a voice
of evil, cast him low by thy force of light like a tree with the
thunderbolt, imperishable6 king.
6 Or, ageless
Hymns of Bharadwaja
1645amAkmn
mGvs
DAryA'nAEm
mjr
s
1650vFy
m
vy
jy
m
1655fEtn
shE*Z
v
#
vAnr
1660vAjmn
tvoEtEB
6. O Fire, uphold in our masters of the treasure their indestruc-
tible7 hero force and unbending might of battle. O universal
Fire, may we by thy safe-keepings conquer the plenitude of
1665the hundreds and the plenitude of the thousands.
adND
EBtv
gopAEBEr
'mAk
1670pAEh
EqDT
s
$
rFn
c
no
dd
qA
1680fDo
an
v
#
vAnr
tArF
tvAn
7. O our impeller,8 holder of the triple session, shield our lumi-
nous seers with thy indomitable guardian fires. Keep safe,
1690O Fire, the army of those who have given, O Universal,
hearing our hymn to thee deliver to its forward march.
SUKTA 9
ah
c
Zmhrj
n
c
Ev
t
rjsF
v
AEB
#
vAnro
jAymAno
n
1710rAjA'vAEtr66yoEtqAEntmA
Es
1. A day that is black and a day that is argent bright, two
worlds revolve in their different paths by forces that we must
know. Fire, the universal Godhead, like a king that comes
1715to birth has thrust the Darknesses down by the Light.
nAh
tt
n
Ev
1720jAnAMyot
n
y
vyEt
smr
1725'tmAnA
ky
Evt
p
ih
1730v8vAEn
pro
vdAyvr
Z
EpA
17352. I know not the woof, I know not the warp, nor what is this
web that they weave moving to and fro in the field of their
motion and labour. There are secrets that must be told and
of someone the son speaks them here, one highest beyond
through his father lower than he.
17407 Or, unaging
8 Or, O doer of sacrifice,
s
it
tt
Ev
jAnAyot
s
v8vAy
TA
vdAEt
y
_
1755Eck
tdm
ty
gopA
av
1760crn
pro
ay
n
p
3. He knows the warp, he knows the woof, he tells in their
time the things that must be spoken. This is the guardian of
immortality who wakes to the knowledge of these things;
walking here below he is one highest beyond who sees
1770through another.
ay
hotA
Tm
p
mEmd
6yoEtrm
t
my
ay
s
j.
D
aA
Enq1o'my
tvA
vD
1790mAn
4. This is the pristine priest of the call, behold him! this is the
immortal Light in mortals. This is he that is born and grows
with a body and is the Immortal seated and steadfast for
ever.
v
6yoEtEn
Eht
d
k
mno
jEvS
ptyvt
v
d
vA
smns
tA
ek
5t
mEB
yEt
sAD
5. An immortal Light set inward for seeing, a swiftest mind
within in men that walk on the way. All the Gods with
1820a single mind, a common intuition, move aright in their
divergent paths towards the one Will.
Ev
m
kZA
1825ptyto
Ev
c
vF
d
18306yoEt}
dy
aAEht
yt
Ev
mn
crEt
d
$
1840raADF
Ek
Ev7LyAEm
Ekm
n
mEny
6. My ears range wide to hear and wide my eyes to see, wide
this Light that is set in the heart; wide walks my mind and
I set my thought afar; something there is that I shall speak;
1850something that now I shall think.
Hymns of Bharadwaja
Ev
v
d
anmyn
EByAnAvAmn
tmEs
tETvA
v
#
vAnro'vt
$
no'myo
'vt
$
ty
7. All the gods were in awe of thee when thou stoodest in the
darkness and bowed down before thee, O Fire. May the
Universal Godhead keep us that we may be safe, may the
Immortal keep us that we may be safe.
1875SUKTA 10
p
ro
vo
md
1880Ed y
s
v
E8t
yEt
aEnmvr
dEDvm
p
r
1890u8T
EB
s
Eh
no
1895EvBAvA
vvrA
krEt
jAtv
dA
19001. When the pilgrim-rite moves on its way, set in your front the
divine, ecstatic Fire, place him in front by your words, the
Flame of the good riddance;9 he is the Knower of all things
born; his light shines wide, and he shall make easy for us
the progressions of the sacrifice.
m
p
v
ZFk
1910hotrn
aEnEBm
n
q
iDAn
1915tom
ymm
#
mmt
v
$
q
G
t
f
Ec
mty
pvt
19302. O Fire, kindled by man’s fires, priest of the call who comest
with thy light, priest of the many flame-armies, hearken to
the anthem our thoughts strain out pure to the godhead like
pure clarified butter,10 even as Mamata chanted to him her
paean.
19359 The word Suvrikti corresponds to the Katharsis of the Greek mystics — the clearance,
riddance or rejection of all perilous and impure stuff from the consciousness. It is Agni
Pavaka, the purifying Fire who brings to us this riddance or purification, “Suvrikti”.
10 Here we have the clue to the symbol of the “clarified butter” in the sacrifice; like
the others it is used in its double meaning, “clarified butter” or, as we may say, “the
1940light-offering”.
pFpAy
s
2vsA
my
yo
any
ddAf
Ev
1950u8T
#
EcAEBtm
$
EtEBE
1955cfoEcv
jy
sAtA
gomto
dDAEt
19603. He among mortals is fed on inspiration, the illumined who
gives with his word to the Fire, the seer whom the Fire of the
brilliant illuminations settles by his luminous safeguardings
in the conquest of the Pen where are the herds of the Light.
aA
pO
jAymAn
uvF
d
r
d
fA
BAsA
ZAvA
aD
bh
Ect
UMyA
yAEtr
foEcqA
dd
pAvk
4. Fire of the blackened trail in his very birth has filled wide
earth and heaven with his far-seeing light. Now has Fire
that makes pure been seen by his bright flame even through
1990much darkness of the billowing Night.
n
$
nE
c
zvAjAEB!tF
an
rEy
mGvd
c
D
Eh
y
2005rADsA
2vsA
cAyyAs
vFy
EB
2010cAEB
sEt
jnAn
5. Found, O Fire, for us and the masters of plenty by thy safe-
guardings packed with the plenitudes a treasure of richly
2015brilliant kinds; for these are they who surpass all others in
their opulence and inspiration and hero-mights.
im
y.
cno
an
ufn
y
t
2025aAsAno
j
h
t
hEvmAn
2030Br7Aj
q
dEDq
s
v
2035E8tmvFvA
jy
gyy
sAtO
6. O Fire, yearn to the sacrifice that the bringer of the offering
2040casts to thee; found the rapture. Hold firm in the Bharad-
wajas the perfect purification; guard them in their seizing of
the riches of the quest.
Ev
qA
2045sFn
Eh
vD
y
0A
m
ftEhmA
s
vFrA
20557. Scatter all hostile things, increase the revealing Word. May
we revel in the rapture, strong with the strength of the
Heroes, living a hundred winters.
Hymns of Bharadwaja
SUKTA 11
2060yjv
hotErEqto
yjFyAnn
bADo
mztA
y
E8t
aA
no
2070EmAvzZA
nAsyA
AvA
hoAy
p
2075ETvF
vv
yA
1. Missioned and strong to sacrifice, offer the sacrifice, Priest
of the call; O Fire, put away from us as if by the applied
2080force of the Life-gods all that opposes. Turn in their paths
towards our offering Mitra and Varuna and the twin Lords
of the journey and Earth and Heaven.
v
hotA
tmo
no
aD
gtd
EvdTA
my
q
pAvkyA
4A
vE>rAsA'n
yjv
tv
vAm
2. To us thou art our priest of the invocation, harmless and per-
fect in ecstasy; thou art the god within in mortals that makes
the discoveries of knowledge; thou art the carrier with the
2105burning mouth, with the purifying flame of oblation. O Fire,
worship with sacrifice thy own body.
DyA
EcE=
v
2110EDqZA
vE
d
vA)jm
g
yjy
#
v
EpSo
2120aEHrsA
y=
Evo
mD
QCdo
2125BnEt
r
B
iO
3. In thee the understanding is full of riches and it desires the
2130gods, the divine births, that the word may be spoken and
the sacrifice done, when the singer, the sage, wisest of the
Angirases chants his honey-rhythm in the rite.
aEd
tt
2135vpAko
EvBAvA'n
yjv
rodsF
u!cF
2140aAy
n
y
nmsA
rAth yA
2145a)jEt
s
ys
p)c
jnA
21504. He has leaped into radiance and is wise of heart and wide of
light; O Fire, sacrifice to the largeness of Earth and Heaven.
All the five peoples lavish the oblation with obeisance of
surrender and anoint as the living being Fire the bringer of
their satisfactions.
)j
h
y3msA
bEh
2160rnAvyAEm
*
G
tvtF
s
E8t
aMyE
sw
sdn
ET yA
a2AEy
y.
s
y
n
c
5. When the sacred grass has been plucked with prostration
2180of surrender to the Fire, when the ladle of the purification
full of the light-offering has been set to its labour, when
the home has been reached in the house of Earth and the
sacrifice lodged like an eye in the sun, —
dfyA
p
v
ZFk
hotd
EBrn
aEnEBErDAn
rAy
s
no
shso
vAvsAnA
aEt
m
v
jn
nA
6. O Son of Force, O Fire, kindling with the gods thy fires,
Priest of the call, priest with thy many flame-armies, dis-
pense to us the Treasures; shining with light let us charge
beyond the sin and the struggle.
2210SUKTA 12
my
hotA
d
roZ
2215bEh
qo
rA0Entody
rodsF
yjy
ay
s
s
$
shs
-tAvA
d
$
2230rAt
s
$
yo
n
2235foEcqA
ttAn
1. In the midmost of the gated house Fire, the Priest of the
call, the King of the sacred seat and the whip of swiftness,
to sacrifice to Earth and Heaven! This is the Son of Force in
2240whom is the Truth; he stretches out from afar with his light
like the sun.
aA
yEmn
v
2245vpAk
yj
yd
rAjsv
tAt
n
O
EqDTttzqo
n
ho
h yA
mGAEn
mAn
yjy
#
2. When a man sacrifices in thee, O King, O Lord of sacrifice,
when he does well his works in the wise and understanding
2265Fire like Heaven in its all-forming labour, triple thy session;
thy speed is as if of a deliverer, when thou comest to give
the sacrifice whose offerings are man’s human fullnesses.
Hymns of Bharadwaja
t
2270EjSA
yyArEtv
n
rAV
todo
2275avn
n
v
DsAno
aOt
oGo
n
d
EvtA
tEt
m3myo
'v
aoqDFq
22903. A splendour in the forest, most brilliant-forceful is the speed
of his journeying; he is like a whip on the path and ever he
grows and blazes. He is like a smelter who does hurt to none;
he is the Immortal who wakes of himself to knowledge: he
cannot be turned from his way mid the growths of the earth.
2295sAmAk
EBr
trF
n
f
q
#rEn
v
dm
jAtv
dA
d
v3o
2310vvn
5vA
nAvo
*
Ept
jAryAEy
y.
#
4. Fire, the knower of all things born, is hymned by our paeans
2320in the house as if in one that walks on the way. He feeds
on the Tree and conquers by our will like a war-horse; this
shining Bull is adored by us with sacrifice like a father.
aD
mAy
2325pnyEt
BAso
v
TA
yt
2330tdn
yAEt
p
LvFm
so
yd
o
EvEqto
DvFyAn
n
tAy
rEt
DvA
2345rAV
5. And now his splendours chant aloud and he hews with ease
and walks along the wideness of the earth. He is rapid in
his race and in a moment is loosed speeding to the gallop:
he is like a thief that runs; his light is seen beyond the desert
2350places.
s
v
no
av
EndAyA
Ev
v
EBrn
2360aEnEBErDAn
v
Eq
rAyo
Ev
2365yAEs
d
QC
nA
md
ftEhmA
s
vFrA
6. O War-horse, us from the bondage deliver, kindling, O Fire,
2375with all thy fires; for thou travellest to the Riches and scat-
terest the forces of affliction and sorrow. May we revel in
the rapture, strong with the strength of the Heroes, living a
hundred winters.
SUKTA 13
Ev
vA
s
Bg
2385sOBgAyn
Ev
yEt
vEnno
n
2390vyA
F
rEyvA
jo
v
$
y
Edvo
v
2400ErFX
yo
rFEtrpAm
1. O felicitous Fire, of thee are all felicities and they grow wide
from thee like branches from a tree. For quickly come, in
2405the piercing of the Python adversary, the Riches and the
desirable plenty and the Rain of Heaven and the flowing of
the Waters.
v
Bgo
aA
Eh
r&Emq
pEr6m
yEs
dmvcA
an
Emo
b
ht
-tyA'Es
1A
2425vAmy
d
v
B
$
2. Thou art Bhaga of the felicities and thou pourest on us the
ecstasy and takest up thy house in us, a pervading presence
and a potent splendour. O divine Fire, like Mitra thou art a
feeder on the vast Truth and the much joy and beauty.
spEt
fvsA
hEt
v
Evo
Ev
pZ
B
vAjm
y
v
c
-tjAt
rAyA
sjoqA
nP
2455ApA
EhnoEq
3. O Fire born of the Truth, O thinker and knower, when
consenting with the Child of the Waters thou takest pleasure
in a man and speedest him with the Treasure, he becomes a
2460master over beings and in his might slays the Python adver-
sary and becomes a seer and carries out with him the riches
of the Dweller in the Cave.
yt
s
no
shso
gFEB
z8T
.
#m
to
EnEfEt
AnV
Ev
v
s
v
Et
vArmn
D1
2485DAy
pyt
vs y
#
4. O Son of Force, the mortal who has reached to the intensity
2490of thee by the word and the utterance and the altar and the
sacrifice, draws to him sufficiency of every kind of wealth,
O divine Fire, and walks on the way with his riches.
Hymns of Bharadwaja
tA
y
aA
sO2vsA
s
2500vFrA'n
s
$
no
shs
ys
DA
k
ZoEq
2510yQCvsA
B
$
Er
p
vyo
v
kAyAry
js
5. O Fire, O Son of Force, found for men, that they may grow,
happy riches of inspiration with strength of its hero keepers,
— many herds, thy creation in thy might, but now a food
for the wolf and the foe and the destroyer.
2525vwA
s
$
no
shso
EvhAyA
an
tok
tny
2535vAEj
no
dA
Ev
vAEBgF
rEB
p
$
Et
yA
md
m
ftEhmA
vFrA
6. O Son of Force, become the vast speaker within us; give
us the Son of our begetting, give us all that is packed with
the plenitudes; let me enjoy by my every word satisfaction
2555of fullness. May we revel in the rapture, strong with the
strength of the Heroes, living a hundred winters.
SUKTA 14
anA
yo
2560myo
d
vo
EDy
j
2565joq
DFEtEB
Bs3
q
p
y
iq
v
rFtAvs
25751. When mortal man by his musings comes to take pleasure of
work and thought in the Fire, he shines with light and is one
supreme; he receives the impulsion that leads him to safety.
aEnErE=
c
aEnv
Dtm
-Eq
aEn
2585hotArmF0t
y.
q
mn
qo
2590Evf
2. The Fire is the thinker and knower, the Fire is a mighti-
est disposer of works and a seer. To Fire the priest of the
invocation the peoples of men aspire in their sacrifices.
nAnA
'vs
pD
t
rAyo
t
$
v
to
mAyvo
v
t
#
2610sFto
av
tm
3. Of many kinds are they who seek thy safeguard and strive
with the foe for his riches; men breaking through the De-
2615stroyer seek to overcome his lawless strength by the order
of their works.
aEnrJsAm
tFqh
vFr
2620ddAEt
spEtm
yy
sEt
fvs
cE
fvo
EByA
4. The Fire gives to man a Master of beings, a Warrior who
2630overbears the charge of the foe and wins the Waters; the
enemies are afraid at his very sight and scatter in panic from
his puissance.
aEnEh
EvwnA
2635Endo
d
vo
mt
m
2640zyEt
shAvA
yyAv
to
rEyvA
vv
t
5. The Fire is the godhead who rescues mortal man by knowl-
edge from the Binder. A forceful thing is the treasure of
2650his riches, unencircled by the adversary, unbesieged in its
plenitudes.
aQCA
no
Emmho
v
d
vAnn
voc
mEt
rodyo
vFEh
vEt
EEt
Edvo
n
^
E7qo
a
hA
Es
ErtA
tr
m
tA
m
tvAvsA
tr
m
26856. O Fire, O friendly Light, O Godhead turn to the Godheads,
mayest thou speak for us the true thought of Earth and
Heaven; march in peace to the happy abode and the Men
of Heaven. Let us pass safe beyond the foe and the sin and
the stumbling.
2690Let us pass beyond these things, pass in thy keeping
through them safe.
Hymns of Bharadwaja
SUKTA 15
imm
q
vo
aEtETm
qb
Ev
vAsA
EvfA
pEtm
2705)js
EgrA
v
tFE:vo
jn
kEQcdA
f
Ec6yo
k
2715EcdE1
gBo
ydQy
tm
1. Thou must crown with the word the guest who wakes from
2720sleep with the dawn, Master of all these peoples. He is pure
from his very birth and surely he comes to us from heaven
in his time; long too, a child from the womb, he feeds on all
that is unfallen.
Em
y
s
EDt
B
2730gvo
dD
v
nptAvFX
ym
v
foEcqm
s
v
Fto
vFth y
aY
t
2745fEtEBm
hys
Edv
Edv
2. The Bhrigus set in the Tree the godhead of our aspiration
2750with his high flame of light like a friend well-confirmed in
his place. And now, O Wonderful, well-pleased in him who
has cast to thee the offering, thou art magnified by wordings
of thy power from day to day.
s
dyAv
ko
v
Do
$
ry
pryAtry
tzq
2765rAy
s
$
no
shso
vA
CEd
y
QC
2775vFth yAy
sTo
Br7AjAy
sT
3. Be in us the one whom the wolf cannot rend, the god who
2780makes grow the discernment, makes grow the supreme inner
Warrior who delivers.11 O Son of Force, extend in mortals
the Riches, the wide-spreading House, for the caster of the
offering, for Bharadwaja the wide-spreading House.
tAn
aEtET
vZ
rmEn
hotAr
q
vvrm
Ev
n
2795vcs
s
v
E8tEBh
yvAhmrEt
vm
)js
4. Crown must thou the guest shining with light, the Male of
the Sun-world, the priest of man’s invocation who makes
280511 Or, be our deliverer from the enemy beyond and within us.
perfect the Rite of the Path. Crown with your acts of
purification the Seer whose speech has its home in the
Light,12 the Carrier of offerings, the Traveller, the Godhead
of Fire.
2810pAvkyA
yE
ctyyA
k
pA
2815Amn
zzc
uqso
n
BAn
t
$
v
n
yAm3
tfy
n
$
aA
yo
G
Z
tt
qAZo
ajr
5. He shines with the light that makes pure, the light that
2840awakens to knowledge, shines in beauty on the earth as if
with a splendour of Dawn. He is as if one hewing his way
in the march and battle of the shining Horse; he is like one
athirst and luminously blazing, the ageless Fire.
aEnmEn
sEmDA
d
vyt
Ey
vo
aEtET
g
ZFqEZ
vo
gFEB
rm
t
2860EvvAst
d
vo
d
v
vnt
Eh
vAy
d
d
v
q
vnt
no
d
v
6. Fire and again Fire set to work with your fuel, chant with
2880your speech the dear, the beloved Guest. Approach and set
the Immortal alight with your words; a god he enjoys in the
gods our desirable things, — a god, he enjoys our works in
the gods.
sEm=mEn
2885sEmDA
EgrA
g
Z
f
pAvk
p
ro
avr
vm
Ev
hotAr
p
2900zvArmd
h
kEv
s
<
2905#rFmh
jAtv
dsm
7. I chant the Fire that is kindled with the word for fuel, the
Fire that is pure and makes pure; Fire that is steadfast for
2910ever and marches in front in the Rite of the Path. We desire
with his felicities the Illumined, the priest of the call, the
harmless, rich with many blessings, the Seer who knows all
births that are.
12 Or, has its home in the Heaven, or, houses the Light,
2915Hymns of Bharadwaja
vA
d
$
tmn
t
y
g
y
h yvAh
dEDr
pAy
mFX
d
vAs
c
mtA
c
jAg
Ev
EvB
pEt
nmsA
En
q
2945Edr
8. O Fire, they have set thee here the Messenger, the Immortal
in generation after generation, the Carrier of offerings, pro-
tector of man and the Godhead of his prayer. Gods alike and
mortals sit with obeisance before the all-pervading Master
2950of the peoples, the ever-wakeful Fire.
EvB
$
q3n
uByA
an
v
tA
d
to
d
vAnA
rjsF
2965smFys
yt
t
DFEt
s
2970mEtmAv
ZFmh
'D
mA
nEv!T
2975Efvo
Bv
9. O Fire, according to the laws of thy works thou pervadest
either race; thou art the messenger of the Gods and rangest
both the worlds. Since we have accepted thy thinking and
2980the right understanding that is thine, be to us our triple
armour of defence and benignant helper.
t
s
tFk
d
f
v)cmEv7A
so
2990Evd
r
sp
m
s
Ev
vA
vy
nAEn
3000Ev7An
h ymEnrm
t
q
voct
10. May we who know not come into touch with this great
knower with his true front and just walk and perfect vi-
sion. May he who knows all manifested things13 do sacrifice
for us, may Fire voice our offering in the world of the
3010Immortals.
tmn
pAy
t
t
3015EppEq
yt
aAnV
kvy
f
r
DFEtm
y.y
vA
3025EnEfEt
voEdEt
vA
tEmt
p
fvsot
rAyA
11. O heroic Fire, thou guardest and bringest safe to the other
side the man who has reached to the Thought for thee
3035the Seer and achieved the intensity of the sacrifice or its
ascending movement; thou fillest him with might and riches.
13 Or, all kinds of knowledge
vmn
vn
3040yto
En
pAEh
vm
n
3045shsAv3vAt
s
vA
vmvd y
t
3050pAT
s
rEy
p
hyA?y
3055sh*F
12. O Fire that hast the Force, guard us from fault, guard from
one who would subject us. May there come to thee along
the path full of destructions the thousandfold delectable
treasure.
3060aEnho
tA
g
hpEt
s
3065rAjA
Ev
vA
v
d
3070jEnmA
jAtv
dA
d
vAnAm
yo
myA
nA
yEjS
yjtAm
tAvA
13. Fire, the priest of the invocation, is a king and the Master in
our house; all the births he knows, he is of all things born
3085the Knower. He is strong to sacrifice and the Truth is in him;
let him do sacrifice for gods and mortals.
an
yd
Evfo
3090avry
hot
pAvkfoc
v
~
y6vA
-tA
yjAEs
mEhnA
yd
B
$
h
3105 yA
vh
yEvS
yA
t
14. O Fire, O Light that makest pure, O summoning priest
of man’s sacrifice, today when thou comest as a doer of
worship, today when thou growest all-pervading in thy
greatness and offerest the things of the Truth for sacrifice,
3115today carry with thee our offerings, O ever-youthful Fire,
even the truths that are thine.
aEB
yA
Es
EDtAEn
Eh
Hyo
En
dDFt
rodsF
yjy
#
3130avA
no
mGvn
vAjsAtAvn
Ev
3135vAEn
d
ErtA
tr
m
tr
m
tvAvsA
tr
15. Open thy manifesting eye on our firm-based pleasant things;
let a man set thee within him to sacrifice to Earth and
Heaven. Protect us, O King of Riches, in our conquest of
the plenitudes; O Fire, may we pass safe through all the
3150stumbling-places.
Let us pass beyond these things, pass in thy keeping
through them safe.
Hymns of Bharadwaja
an
v
EB
vnFk
d
#!ZA
vt
Tm
sFd
3165yoEnm
k
lAEyn
G
tvt
3170sEv
y.
ny
yjmAnAy
sAD
317516. O Fire with thy strong armies of flame, sit with the gods,
first of them all, in the wool-flecked lair where the Nest is
ready and the light-offering; lead for the doer of the rite, for
the presser of the wine rightly on its paths the sacrifice.
imm
3180ymTv
vdEn
mTEt
v
Ds
3185ym€
$
ytmAny3m
$
r
3190yA yA y
17. This is that Fire whom the ordainers of works churn out
like Atharvan of old; a Power unbewildered, they led him
in his zigzag walk from the dusky Nights.
jEnvA
vvFty
sv
tAtA
vty
d
vAn
vLym
tA
-tAv
Do
y.
d
q
Epp
f
18. Be born to us in our all-forming labour for the coming of
3215the Gods, for our peace. Bring the gods to us, the Immortals,
the builders of the growing Truth; give to our sacrifice touch
on the gods.
vym
vA
hpt
jnAnAmn
akm
sEmDA
htm
aT
$
Er
gAh
pyAEn
st
Etm
nt
jsA
s
EffAED
324019. O Fire, O man’s master of the house, we have fed thee with
our fuel and made thee a vastness; let the works of the
house-master be unhalting, make us utterly keen with thy
intense force of light.
SUKTA 16
3245vmn
y.AnA
hotA
Ev
v
Eht
d
v
EBmA
q
jn
1. O Fire, thou art set here in all as the priest of the call in the
sacrifice, set by the gods in the human being.
no
md
AEBrvr
Ej4AEBy
mh
aA
d
vAn
yE
c
2. Offer worship with thy rapturous tongues in the Rite of
the Path to the Great Ones. Bring the gods to us, do them
3275sacrifice.
v
TA
Eh
v
avn
pT
c
d
3285vA)jsA
an
y.
q
s
32905to
3. O ordainer of works, mighty of will, by thy revealing light14
in the sacrifice thou knowest the tracks of the gods and their
highways.
vAmF0
E7tA
Brto
vAEjEB
f
Ij
y.
q
yE.ym
33054. Now has the Bringer of the Treasure with his horses of
swiftness aspired to thee for a twofold bliss; he has sacrificed
in the sacrifices to the king of sacrifice.
vEmmA
vAyA
z
EdvodAsAy
s
vt
3315Br7AjAy
dAf
q
5. O Fire, for the Servant of Heaven15 who presses the wine,
for Bharadwaja the giver of the offering, the multitude of
3320these desirable things!
v
d
$
to
3325amy
aA
vhA
d
# y
3330jnm
f
@vn
Evy
s
3335Etm
6. Thou art the Immortal Messenger; lend ear to the laud of
the seer and bring the Divine People.
14 Or, with thy straight going
15 Divodasa
3340Hymns of Bharadwaja
vAmn
vAyo
mtA
so
vvFty
y.
q
d
3350vmF0t
7. Men deeply meditating aspire to thee that the godheads may
come to them; mortals they aspire to the God in the sacrifice.
tv
yE
d
fm
t
5t
dAnv
Ev
v
j
kAEmn
8. Bring into sacrifice thy perfect sight and thy will; rich are
thy gifts and in thee is the joy of all who desire.
v
3370hotA
mn
Eh
to
vE>rAsA
3375Evd
r
an
yE
Edvo
3380Evf
9. Thou art the priest of the call set here in thinking man, his
carrier with mouth of flame wiser in knowledge than he. O
Fire, sacrifice to the people of heaven.
an
yAEh
vFty
g
ZAno
3390h ydAty
En
hotA
sEs
bEh
/
10. Come, O Fire, for the advent; voiced by the word, come for
the gift of the oblation: sit, the priest of our invocation, on
the grass of the altar.
vA
sEmEYrEHro
G
t
vD
yAmEs
b
hQCocA
3410yEvS
y
11. O Angiras, we make thee to grow by our fuel and our of-
fering of the clarity; flame into a vast light, O ever-youthful
Fire.
n
p
T
2vA?ymQCA
v
EvvAsEs
b
hdn
vFy
m
12. O God, O Fire, thou illuminest towards us a wide light of
inspired knowledge and the vastness of a perfect force.
3430vAmn
p
krAdyTvA
EnrmTt
m
9o
Ev
vy
vAGt
344013. O Fire, Atharvan churned thee out from the Lotus,16 from
the head of every chanting sage.
tm
vA
dyR
Eq
p
ID
aTv
v
hZ
p
r
3455drm
14. And Dadhyang too, the Seer, Atharvan’s son, kindled thee a
slayer of the Python adversary and shatterer of his cities.
tm
vA
3460pALyo
v
qA
smFD
dy
3465htmm
Dn
jy
rZ
rZ
347015. Thee the Bull of the paths set full alight, most mighty to slay
the Destroyers, a conqueror of riches in battle upon battle.
eV
$
q
vAEZ
t
'n
iT
3480trA
Egr
eEBv
DA
s
EB
16. Come to me and let me voice to thee, O Fire, true other
words; for thou growest by these moon-powers of the Wine.
y
c
t
mno
d
3495dDs
u1rm
tA
sd
k
3500Zvs
17. Wheresoever is thy mind and thou plantest that higher-
discernment, there thou makest thy house.
nEh
t
$
t
mEpd
B
mAnA
vso
aTA
d
vnvs
18. O Prince of Riches, the fullness of thy treasures meets not
the eye and it is for the few;17 take then joy in our work.
16 Or, on Pushkara; or, the Lotus of the head of every chanting sage.
352017 Or, let not the fullness of thy treasures meet the eye only of the few;
Hymns of Bharadwaja
aAEnrgAEm
BArto
v
p
zc
tn
EdvodAsy
3530spEt
19. Fire of the Bringers is approached by us, the slayer of the
Python adversary conscious with a multiple knowledge, the
Servant of Heaven’s Fire, master of beings.
s
Ev
vAEt
pAET
vA
3540rEy
dAfmEhvnA
vv3vAto
at
t
20. This is he that unconquered, unoverthrown shall by his
greatness win and give to us a treasure beyond all earthly
things.
s
3550&v3vFysA'n
<
n
s
ytA
ht
ttT
BAn
nA
356021. O Fire, by a new illumination like the old and joining it,
thou hast stretched out the Vast with thy light.18
v
sKAyo
any
3565tom
y.
c
D
Z
ac
gAy
c
v
22. O friends, offer to the impetuous violence of Fire the hymn
and the sacrifice; sing the illumining verse, chant to the
Ordainer of works.
s
yo
mAn
qA
y
sFd=otA
kEv5t
d
$
c
h yvAhn
23. This is he that must sit through the human generations,
man’s Priest of the call with the seer-will, the Messenger, the
3595Carrier of the oblation.
18 Or, built the Vast with thy light.
tA
rAjAnA
f
3600Ecv
tA''EdyAn
mAzt
gZm
vso
3605yFh
rodsF
24. O Prince of the Treasure, do worship here with sacrifice to
the Two Kings who are ever pure in their works, to the sons
of the Indivisible Mother, to the company of the Life-Gods,
3610to Earth and Heaven.
vvF
t
an
s
EErqyt
myA
y
Ujo
3620npAdm
ty
25. O Fire, O Child of Energy, full of riches is thy vision for the
mortal, the vision of the immortal, and it imparts to him its
impulse.
36255vA
dA
at
So'
vA
3630vvs
r
8ZA
mt
aAnAf
v
E8tm
26. Let the giver be the best by work of the will; today win-
ning thee let him become one overflowing with affluence: a
3640mortal, he shall taste the perfect purification.
t
t
an
votA
3645iqyto
Ev
vmAy
trto
ayo
3650arAtFv
vto
ayo
arAtF
27. These are thy men whom thou guardest, O Fire, and they
3655find the speed of thy impulse and move to universal Life,
fighters piercing through the armies of the enemy, fighters
conquering the armies of the enemy.19
aEnEtm
n
3660foEcqA
yAsd
Ev
v
yEZm
3665aEnno
vnt
rEym
28. Let the Fire with his keen energy of light overwhelm every
devourer; Fire conquers for us the riches.
367019 Or, piercing through the enemies who war against them, conquering the enemies who
war against them.
Hymns of Bharadwaja
s
vFr
3675rEymA
Br
jAtv
do
Evcq
jEh
rA
Es
s
36855to
29. O wide-seeing Fire, God who knowest all births that are,
bring to us the treasure with its strength of the Heroes; O
mighty of will, slay the demon keepers.
v
pAV
hso
jAtv
do
3695aGAyt
rA
Zo
b
Zkv
30. O God who knowest all births that are, guard us from sin
and from him that worketh calamity; O Seer of the Word,
protect us.
yo
an
d
r
v
mto
vDAy
dAfEt
tmA3
3715pAV
hs
31. The mortal of evil movements who gives us over to the
stroke, guard us, O Fire, from him and his evil.
v
d
v
Ej4yA
pEr
3725bADv
d
k
tm
mto
no
EjGA
sEt
32. O God, repulse on every side with thy tongue of flame that
3735doer of wickedness; oppose the mortal who would slay us.
Br7AjAy
sT
fm
yQC
3740shy
an
vr
@y
vs
374533. O forceful Fire, extend to Bharadwaja the peace with its
wideness;20 extend to him the desirable riches.
aEnv
AEZ
jnd
EvZy
Ev
pyyA
sEm=
aAh
t
34. Let Fire the seeker of the treasure kindled and brilliant and
20 Or, the wide-spreading house of refuge;
3760fed with our offerings slay with his flame of illumination the
encircling Adversaries.
gB
mAt
Ept
3765EptA
EvEd
tAno
ar
sFd3
yoEnmA
35. Let him become the father of the Father in the womb of
the Mother; let him break out into lightnings in the Im-
perishable, let him take his seat in the native home of the
3775Truth.
b
jAvdA
Br
jAtv
Evcq
Z
an
yd
3785dFdyd
EdEv
36. O wide-seeing Fire, God who knowest all births that are,
bring us the Word with its issue, the Word whose light shines
in Heaven.
vA
r@vs
d
f
3795yvt
shk
t
an
ss
38006mh
Egr
37. O thou who art made by our force, we come to thee of the
rapturous vision bringing our offerings for thy pleasure and
let forth towards thee, O Fire, our words.
QCAyAEmv
G
Z
rgm
t
vym
an
Ehr@ys
f
38. Like men that take refuge in the shade, we have arrived to
the refuge of thy peace, there where thou blazest with light
and art a vision of gold, O Fire.
ug
iv
fy
hA
3825Etmf
Ho
n
v
sg
p
ro
zroEjT
39. Thou art like a fierce fighter shooting arrows and like a
3835sharp-horned Bull; O Fire, thou breakest the cities.
Hymns of Bharadwaja
aA
y
ht
KAEdn
Eff
jAt
n
3845EbB
Et
EvfAmEn
vvrm
/
385040. They bring him like a beast of prey, like a new-born child
they bear him in their hands, Fire that effects the Rite of the
Path for the peoples.
d
v
vvFty
BrtA
vs
Ev1mm
v
yonO
En
qFdt
386541. Bring to us this great discoverer of riches, bring the god for
the coming of the gods; let him take his seat in his own
native home.
aA
jAt
3870jAtv
dEs
Ey
EffFtAEtETm
yon
g
hpEtm
42. In the felicitous Fire that knows all things born the Master
of your House is born to you; sharpen to his intensity the
3880beloved guest.
an
y
LvA
Eh
tvA'
vAso
d
v
3890sADv
ar
vhEt
myv
43. O God, O Fire, yoke those horses of thine that do well the
3895work and can bear thee sufficient for our passion.
aQCA
no
yAVA
vhA'EB
Es
vFty
aA
d
3905vAsompFty
44. Come to us, bear towards us the Gods that they may eat
of21 our pleasant offerings and drink our Soma wine.
21 Or, come to
udn
3910BArt
mdj*
Z
dEv
tt
3915focA
Ev
BAVjr
45. O Fire of the Bringers, luminously lightening with thy inces-
sant flame upward burn; spread wide thy light, O ageless22
3920power.
vFtF
yo
d
v
3925mto
d
vy
dEnmF0FtAvr
hEvmAn
3930hotAr
syyj
rodyoz1Anhto
nmsA
EvvAs
46. Let the mortal who would serve with his works the God in
the advent, aspire bringing his offering to the Fire in the Rite
of the Path; let him with uplifted23 hands and with obeisance
of surrender make shine the summoning Priest of Earth and
3940Heaven, the fire of true sacrifice.24
aA
t
an
-cA
3945hEv}
dA
t
BrAmEs
t
Bvt
$
Z
-qBAso
3955vfA
ut
47. We bring to thee, O Fire, by the illumining word an offering
that is shaped by the heart. Let there be born from it thy
impregnating bulls and thy heifers.
3960aEn
d
vAso
aEg
yEmDt
htmm
y
nA
vs
yAB
tA
t
[hA
Es
vAEjnA
48. The Gods kindle, most strong to slay the Python adversary,
the supreme Fire, the Horse of swiftness by whom the Riches
3980are brought and pierced the demon keepers.
22 Or, imperishable
23 Or, outstretched
24 Or, who worships the Truth with sacrifice.