Canto 14Mandala Ten

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TRITA APTYA

SUKTA 1

5h3

qsAm

aTAE3j

gvAn

10tmso

6yoEtqAgAt

aEnBA

15zftA

jAto

Ev vA

20swAyA

1. High and vast the Fire stood in front of the dawns; issuing

out of the darkness he came with the Light: Fire, a perfect

body of brilliant lustre, filled out at his very birth all the

worlds.

25s

jAto

gBo

aEs

rodyorn

30cAzEv

aoqDFq

35Eff

pEr

tmA

y8t

40mAt

aED

kEn5dA

2. Thou art the child born from earth and heaven, the child

45beautiful carried in the growths of earth; an infant many-

hued, thou goest forth crying aloud from the mothers

around the nights and the darknesses.

EvZ

ErTA

50prmmy

Ev7A)jAto

h3EB

pAEt

55t

tFym

aAsA

ydy

pyo

60a5t

tso

a yc

65y

3. Vishnu knowing rightly the supreme plane of this Fire, born

in his vastness, guards the third (plane); when in his mouth

they have poured the milk (of the cow), conscious they shine

here towards his own home.

70at

Ept

75to

jEnFr3Av

cry3

80#

85p

nry!pA

aEs

90mAn

qFq

hotA

4. Hence the mothers who bear that draught come with their

Mandala Ten

95food to thee, and thou growest by the food: to them the

same, but other in their forms, thou comest (returnest)

again, then art thou priest of the call in human beings.

hotAr

EcrTmvry

100y.yy.y

zftm

yED

105d

vyd

m>A

E2yA

110vEnmEtET

jnAnAm

5. The priest of the call of the pilgrim-rite with his many-

hued chariot, in the brilliant ray of intuition of sacrifice on

sacrifice, Fire the guest of man who takes to himself the half

115of each god in might and glory.

vA@yD

120fnAEn

vsAno

aEnnA

125ET yA

azqo

jAt

i0AyA

130p

roEhto

rAjn

yFh

135vAn

6. Putting on robes, putting on forms, Fire in the navel-centre

of the earth is born a ruddy flame, in the seat of Revelation.

O King, as the priest set in front sacrifice to the gods.

140Eh

AvAp

ETvF

145sdA

mAtrA

150ttT

yAVQCofto

yEvSA'TA

shy

155h

vAn

7. Ever, O Fire, thou hast stretched out earth and heaven, as

their son thou hast built up thy father and mother: O ever

160young, journey towards the gods who desire thee; then bring

them to us, O forceful Flame!

SUKTA 2

EpFEh

165vA

;

ufto

yEvS

Ev7A

170;

-t

175pt

180# yA

-Evjt

EBrn

hot

185^

ZAmyAyEjS

1. Satisfy the desire of the gods, O thou ever young, do sacrifice

here, a knower of its order and its times,1 O master of the

order and time of things; with those who are divine priests

1901 In the exoteric sense, r.tu seems to mean the rites of the sacrifice.

Other Hymns to Agni

of the order of the work thou, O Fire, art the strongest for

sacrifice.

195Eq

hom

jnAnA

200mDAtAEs

EvZodA

-tAvA

vAhA

205vy

ZvAmA

hvF

210d

vAn

yjvEnrh

215n

2. Thou comest to men’s invocation, thou comest to the pu-

rification, thou art the thinker, the giver of the riches, the

possessor of the Truth: may we make the offerings with

sv¯ah¯a; may Fire, availing, do the sacrifice, a god to the gods.

220aA

vAnAmEp

pTAmgm

yQC

225vAm

tdn

vo[h

aEnEv

2307As

yjAs

hotA

235avrAs

-t

kSpyAEt

2403. We have come to the path of the gods, may we have power

to tread it, to drive forward along that road. The Fire is the

knower, let him do sacrifice; he verily is the priest of the

call, he makes effective the pilgrim-sacrifices and the order

of our works.

245yd

EmnAm

250tAEn

Evd

255aEvd

rAs

aEnd

vmA

260p

ZAEt

Ev7An

EBd

265vA

;

-t

kSpyAEt

2704. Whatever we may impair of the laws of your workings,

O gods, we in our ignorance maiming your workings who

know, all that may the Fire who is a knower make full by

that order in time with which he makes effective the gods.

275pAkA

mnsA

dFndA

y.y

280mvt

myA

aEn=otA

285Evd

EvjAnn

yEjSo

290;

-t

yjAEt

5. What in the sacrifice mortals in the ignorance of their minds,

295poor in discernment, cannot think out, that the Fire knows,

the priest of the call, the finder of the right-will, strongest

of sacrificants and does the sacrifice to the gods in the order

and times of the truth.

Mandala Ten

300Ev

VvrAZAmnFk

305k

jEntA

jjAn

310s

yjv

vtFrn

315A

pAhA

mtFEv

vjyA

3206. The father brought thee to birth, the force of all pilgrim-

sacrifices, the many-hued ray of intuition; so do thou win for

us by sacrifice in the line of the planes with their godheads,

their desirable and opulent universal forces.

325vA

AvAp

ETvF

vApvA

330y

jEnmA

jjAn

335pTAmn

Ev7An

Ept

yAZ

mdn

340sEmDAno

BAEh

7. Thou whom heaven and earth, thou whom the waters,

thou whom the form-maker, creator of perfect births, have

345brought into being, O Fire, luminously along the path of the

journey of the Fathers, knowing it beforehand, high-kindled

blaze.

SUKTA 3

ino

350rAj3rEt

sEm=o

rOd

dAy

355s

;

adEf

360EcEkE7

BAEt

BAsA

htA'Es

365Fm

zftFmpAjn

1. He is seen high-kindled, the master ruling all, the traveller,

the terrible, he who creates perfectly right understanding,

370awake to knowledge he shines wide with a vast lustre;

driving the ruddy bright cow he comes to the dark one.

375nFmEB

3806jnyn

yoqA

Ept

385jA

BAn

390$

tBAyn

Edvo

395vs

EBrrEtEv

BAEt

2. When he overspreads with his body the black night and

the dappled dawn bringing to birth the young maiden born

400from the great Father, pillaring the high-lifted light of the

sun, the traveller shines out with the riches2 of heaven.

2 Or, the shining ones

Other Hymns to Agni

405o

scmAn

aAgAt

410vsAr

jAro

a y

415cAt

420EBrEnEv

EtSn

zfEYv

425rEB

rAmmTAt

3. He has come closely companioning her, happy with her

happy, a lover he follows behind his sister; Fire spreading

out with his lights full of conscious knowledge overlays her

430beauty with his ruddy shining hues.

yAmAso

hto

435n

EnDAnA

440sHy

Efvy

445Zo

vAso

BAmAso

450yAm38tvE

cEk

4. His movements flaming send forth as if vast callings of Fire

the beneficent comrade; in the march of this mighty and

adorable flame, the vast and beautiful, his radiances blazing

455have waked to knowledge.

vnA

BAmAs

460pvt

rocmAny

465Edv

EBy

470EjS

5F0

mEYv

475S

EBBA

EBn

480Am

5. His blazings as he shines stream like sounds of bright heaven

in its vastness; with his greatest, most splendid and opulent

lights at play he travels to heaven.

485f

mAso

fAnpv

490hmAny

vnyn

Eny

495EByo

zfEYd

vtmo

500BEYrrEtBA

Ev vA

6. His strengths are those of a thunderbolt seen in the hurling,

they neigh aloud in their teams; he, the traveller, most divine,

505shines wide-pervading with his ancient ruddy chanting fires.

mEh

510n

sEs

Edvp

515ET yorrEty

vyo

aEn

520k

EBr

525v

rBvYF

rBvA

;

530eh

gMyA

7. So carry for us, so take thy seat, the mighty traveller of the

young earth and heaven, Fire the swift and vehement with

his swift and vehement horses, — so mayst thou come to us

535here.

Mandala Ten

SUKTA 4

540t

iyEm

545yTA

550DvE3v

aEs

vmn

iyv

555p

rAjn

5601. To thee I sacrifice, to thee I send forth my thought so that

thou mayst manifest thyself adorable at our call; thou art

like a fountain in the desert to longing men, O ancient king,

O Fire.

565vA

jnAso

aEB

crEt

570gAv

uZEmv

yEvS

575d

vAnAmEs

580myA

nAmtm

;

crEs

585rocn

2. O ever-young flame, towards thee men move, like herds

that go to a warm pen; thou art the messenger of gods

and mortals, thou movest between them vast through the

590luminous world.

Eff

595y

ytF

mAtA

EbBEt

600scnymAnA

DnorED

vtA

yAEs

605E)jgFqs

ErvAvs

3. The mother bears thee like an infant child clinging cherish-

ingly to thee, increasing thee to be a conqueror; headlong

610down over the dry land he goes rejoicing, he is fain to go

like an animal let loose.

615am

620EcEkvo

mEhvmn

vmH

Evs

625vEv

crEt

Ej4yAdn

ErVt

630y

vEt

pEt

6354. O thou who art conscious and free from ignorance, ignorant

are we and we know not thy greatness, thou only knowest.

Covert he lies, he ranges devouring with his tongue of flame,

he licks the young earth and is the master of her creatures.

640$

Ec6jAyt

snyAs

n yo

645tTO

pElto

650t

aAtApo

qBo

655v

tso

660Zyt

mtA

5. Anywhere he is born new in eternal wombs; he stands in the

Other Hymns to Agni

forest hoary-old with smoke for his banner: a bull unbathed

665he journeys to the waters and mortals who are conscious

lead him on his way.

670v

tkrA

vng

rfnAEBd

675fEBr yDFtAm

n ysF

680mnFqA

LvA

685f

cyEYrH

6. Two robbers abandoning their bodies, rangers of the forest,

have planted him in his place with ten cords. This is thy new

690thinking, O Fire, yoke thyself to it with thy illumining limbs

like a chariot.

695jAtv

700c

sdEmd

705B

710an

tnyAEn

tokA

rot

ntvo

715ay

QCn

7. Thine is this wisdom-word, O knower of all things born,

and this prostration, this utterance is thine; may it have ever

the power to make thee grow. Guard all that are offspring

720of our begetting, guard undeviatingly our bodies.

SUKTA 5

725o

DzZo

ryFZAmm=

730$

ErjmA

Esq8y

735$

DEn

@yozpT

usy

740EnEht

1. One sole ocean holding all the riches, born in manifold

births from our heart it sees all; there cleaves to the teat in the

745lap of the two secret ones in the midst of the fountain-source

the hidden seat of the being.

smAn

nF0

750qZo

vsAnA

jEmr

mEhqA

755av

tFEB

-ty

kvyo

760En

pAEt

nAmAEn

765dEDr

prAEZ

2. The stallions inhabiting a common abode, the great stallions

have met with the mares. The seers guard the seat of the

Truth, they hold in the secrecy the supreme Names.

770Mandala Ten

-tAEynF

mAEynF

dDAt

775EmvA

Eff

j.t

780ytF

nAEB

crto

785D

790tt

mnsA

Evyt

3. The two mothers in whom is the Truth, in whom is the

mage-wisdom, formed him and brought to birth like an

795infant child, they have put him firm in his place and make

him grow. Men found in him the navel-centre of all that is

moving and stable and they weave by the mind the weft of

the seer.

-ty

800Eh

jAtEmqo

805vAjAy

Edv

sct

aDFvAs

rodsF

810vAvsAn

#r3

#vA

815v

DAt

nAm

8204. Him well-born the routes of the Truth and its ancient impul-

sions close companion for the plenitude. Heaven and earth

give lodging to him whose dwelling is above them,3 they

make him grow by the lights and foods of their sweetnesses.

825vs

rzqFvA

vfAno

Ev7An

830mv

u6jBArA

835aty

atEr

rAjA

840iQCn

vEv

mEvdt

845qZy

5. Desiring the seven shining sisters, the knower bore on high

their sweetnesses that he might have vision; he who was born

from of old laboured within in the mid-world, he wished for

and found the covering of the all-fostering sun.

850sP

myA

kvytt

tAsAm

855kAEmd y

gAt

aAyoh

860kMB

upmy

nF0

pTA

Evsg

865DzZ

tTO

6. The seers fashioned the seven goals,4 towards one of them

alone goes the narrow and difficult road. A pillar of the

870supreme being in its abode, he stands at the starting-out of

the ways, in the upholding laws.

3 Or, as their inhabitant,

4 Or, the seven frontiers,

Other Hymns to Agni

875asQc

sQc

prm

yomn

880jm3Edt

zpT

aEnh

TmjA

885-ty

aAy

890En

895n

7. He is the being and non-being in the supreme ether, in

the birth of the Understanding in the lap of the indivisible

mother. Fire comes to us as the first-born of the Truth, he is

the Bull and milch-Cow in the original existence.

900SUKTA 6

9053voEBrn

jErtAEBO

910S

EByo

BAn

EB-

915$

pErvFto

920EvBAvA

1. This is he in whose peace,5 and in his approach to it, grows

by his guardings the worshipper of the Fire, who encom-

passes all and is spread everywhere luminous with the largest

lights of the wise.6

925yo

BAn

EBEv

BAvA

EvBAyEnd

930v

EB-

tAvAj*

935EvvAy

sHyA

sEK yo'pEr4

ayo

940n

sEP

2. Fire, who shines perpetual, possessor of the Truth, luminous

with divine lights, he who follows out the works of a com-

rade for his comrades like a courser running straight to his

945goal.

vyA

950d

vvFt

rFf

vAy

955zqso

yEmn

960mnA

hvF

ynAvErrT

k|AEt

965$

3. He who has power for every advent of godhead, who has

power for the outbreak of the dawn and is the life of all,

970Fire in whom our thinkings are cast as offerings, his chariot

goes unhurt and he supports all by his strengths.

5 Or, house of refuge,

6 Or, with his largest lights for the wise.

Mandala Ten

975f

EBv

980j

qAZo

985vA

;

aQCA

pvA

990EjgAEt

hotA

995j

yEjS

1000lo

aEnrA

EjGEt

vAn

10054. Increasing by his strengths, rejoicing in his illuminations he

goes a swift galloper towards the gods; he is the rapturous

priest of the call strong to sacrifice with his tongue of flame;

inseparable from the gods the Fire sheds on them his light.

1010*AEmd

jmAnmEn

gFEB

1015n

moEBrA

1020aA

EvAso

mEtEBg

ZEt

1025jAtv

shAnAm

5. Him fashion for you with your words and your obeisances

1030as if Indra quivering at the dawn-ray, him whom illumined

sages voice with their thoughts, the knower of all things

born, the overpowering Flame.

yEmn

1035Ev

1040jm

1045sPFvt

UtFErd

1050vAttmA

avA

cFnA

1055k

6. Thou in whom all the Riches meet together in the plenitude

like horses by their gallopings in their speed towards the

1060goal, the protections most desired by Indra to us make close,

O Fire.

aDA

m>A

1065EnqA

j.Ano

h yo

1070$

1075vAso

tmAy3DAvD

1080TmAs

UmA

7. Now, indeed, taking thy seat in thy greatness, O Fire, in thy

very birth thou hast become the one to whom we must call;

the gods walked by the ray of thy intuition, then they grew

1085and were the first and supreme helpers.

SUKTA 7

vEt

Edvo

1090an

ET yA

vAy

1095D

yjTAy

1100sc

mEh

1105t

#zzyA

uzEBd

1110f

1. Found for us felicity of earth and heaven and universal life

Other Hymns to Agni

1115that we may worship thee with sacrifice, O god; O doer of

works, may we keep close to thy perceptions of knowledge;

guard us, O god, with thy wide utterances.

imA

1120mtyt

jAtA

goEBr

1125#rEB

ZEt

rAD

ydA

1130t

mto

BogmAnX

vso

1135dDAno

mEtEB

jAt

2. For thee these thoughts are born, O Fire, towards thee they

1140voice our achievement of riches with its horses of power

and herds of light when the mortal upheld by his thoughts

following thee attains to thy enjoyment, O Fire, perfectly

born, O shining One.

aEn

1145my

EptrmEnmAEpmEn

Atr

sdEmt

1150sKAym

rnFk

1155spy

EdEv

yjt

1160$

3. I think of the Fire as my father, my ally, my brother, ever

my comrade; I serve the force of vast Fire, his bright and

1165worshipped force of the Sun in heaven.

EsD

EDyo

1170am

Ays

1175aA

EnyhotA

-tAvA

roEhd

1180v

EBrmA

ahEBvA

1185mmt

4. O Fire, effective in us are thy thoughts and conquerors of

our aims: he whom thou deliverest, thou the eternal priest

of the call in the house, who art that driver of the red horses,

possessed of the Truth, possessor of the much store of riches,

1190may happiness be his through the shining days.

EBEh

EmEmv

yog

1195&m

Evjmvry

jArm

bAh

yAmEnmAyvo'jnt

1200Ev

hotAr

ysAdyt

5. The Fire founded by the heavens7 as our friend and the

means for our works, the ancient priest of the pilgrim-rites,

1205the lover men brought into being by the strength of their two

arms and seated within as the priest of the call in beings.

7 Or, with his lights

Mandala Ten

1210yjv

EdEv

1215vAn

pAk

1220Zvdc

yTAyj

-t

EBd

1225v

vAn

yjv

1230tv

jAt

6. Thyself sacrifice in heaven to the gods, for what shall man

immature in thought and unconscious of the knowledge do

1235of thy work? Even as thou didst sacrifice in the order and

times of the Truth, a god to the gods, O perfectly born Fire,

so sacrifice to thy body.

BvA

1240an

'Evtot

gopA

BvA

vyk

1245d

vyoDA

rAvA

1250c

mho

h ydAEt

1255Avot

ntvo

QCn

7. O Fire, become our guardian and protector, become the

1260creator of our growth and of our growth the upholder, O

mighty One, give to us what we shall give as offerings to the

gods, and unfailing our bodies deliver.

TRISHIRAS TWASHTRA

SUKTA 8

1265k

htA

1270yAyEnrA

rodsF

qBo

rorvFEt

1275EdvE

cdtA

;

upmA

;

1280udAn0pAm

mEhqo

vvD

1. The Fire journeys on with his vast ray of intuition, the Bull

1285bellows to earth and heaven; he has reached up to the highest

extremities of heaven, the mighty one has grown in the lap

of the waters.

mod

1290gBo

wAn*

1295mA

EfmFvA

;

arAvFt

1300s

vtAy

tAEn

1305@vv

Tmo

1310EjgAEt

2. The Bull of the heights,8 the new-born rejoiced, the unfailing

child worker rejoiced and shouted aloud; in the formation

of the gods he does his exalted works and comes the first in

his own abodes.

13158 Or, the humped-Bull,

Other Hymns to Agni

1320$

EporrND

yvr

1325dEDr

1330ay

pm3zqFr

-ty

1335yonO

tvo

3. He who grasps the head of the father and mother they set

1340within in the pilgrim-sacrifice, a sea from the Sun-world; in

his path are the shining rays that are the foundations of the

Horse of Power and they accept embodiment in the native

seat of the Truth.

uquqo

1345Eh

vso

1350v

ymyorBvo

EvBAvA

-tAy

1355dEDq

pdAEn

jnyn

1360vAy

4. O shining One, thou comest to the front of dawn after dawn,

thou hast become luminous in the Twins; thou holdest the

seven planes for the Truth bringing Mitra to birth for thy

1365own body.

1370h

-ty

gopA

1375vzZo

tAy

1380B

apA

npA6jAtv

1385B

1390yy

h y

joq

5. Thou becomest the eye of the vast Truth; when thou jour-

1395neyest to the Truth thou becomest Varuna, its guardian;

thou becomest the child of the waters, O knower of all

things born, thou becomest the messenger of the man in

whose offering thou hast taken pleasure.

1400vo

y.y

rjs

1405tA

Eny

scs

1410EfvAEB

EdEv

1415n

dEDq

vqA

Ej4Amn

1420q

h yvAhm

6. Thou art the leader of the sacrifice and leader to the mid-

world to which thou resortest constantly with thy helpful

team of mares; thou upholdest in heaven thy head that con-

1425quers the Sun-world, thy tongue thou makest, O Fire, the

carrier of our offerings.

Mandala Ten

14305t

atErQCn

DFEt

1435Ept

pry

1440scymAn

EpozpT

jAEm

vAZ

1445aAy

DAEn

7. By his will Trita in the secret cave desiring by his movements

1450the thinking of the supreme Father, cherished in the lap

of the Father and Mother, speaking the companion-word,

seeks his weapons.

EpWyA@yAy

1455DAEn

Ev7AEnd

Eqt

aAyo

a yy

1460yt

EfFqA

sPrE

1465jGvAn

EcE3

1470j

Eto

8. Trita Aptya discovered the weapons of the Father and mis-

sioned by Indra went to the battle; he smote the Three-

1475headed, the seven-rayed and let loose the ray-cows of the

son of Twashtri the form-maker.

rFEdd

1480uEdntmojo'vAEBnt

spEtm

ymAnm

1485EcE7

v!py

gonAmAc5AZFEZ

fFqA

prA

1490vk

9. Indra, the master of beings, broke that great upstriving med-

itating force and cast it downward and making his own the

ray-cows of Twashtri’s son of the universal forms he took

away from him his three heads.

1495HAVIRDHANA ANGI

SUKTA 11

1500Z

dohsA

1505Edv

pyA

y4o

aEdt

1510rdA y

1515d

vzZo

yTA

EDyA

1520yE.yo

yjt

yE.yA

;

-t

1525$

1. Mighty from the mighty, strong and inviolable, he milked by

the milking of heaven the streams of the Indivisible; Varuna

knew all by his right thought. A lord of sacrifice, may he

1530perform the order of the rites of the sacrifice.

Other Hymns to Agni

rpd

gDvF

rJyA

1535c

yoqZA

ndy

nAd

pEr

1540pAt

1545aEdEtEn

DAt

AtA

1550no

Tmo

1555vocEt

2. May the Gandharvi speak to me and the Woman born from

the Waters, may her protection be around my mind midst

the roar of the river; may the indivisible mother establish us

in the heart of our desire: my brother the greatest9 and first

1560declares it to me.

Ec3

1565mtF

yfvy

uvAs

mnv

1570vv

ydFm

ftm

ftAmn

15755t

mEn

hotAr

EvdTAy

jFjnn

15803. She the happy and opulent and glorious, Dawn has shone

out for man bringing the Sun-world with her when they gave

birth to this Fire, an aspirant doing the will of the aspirants

for the discovery of knowledge.

1585y

Ev v

EvcZ

1590EvrABrEdEqt

avr

ydF

1595Evfo

dmmAyA

aEn

1600hotArmD

DFrjAyt

4. Now the Bird, the missioned Hawk, has brought the draught

of the great and seeing wine to the pilgrim-sacrifice. When

the Aryan peoples chose the doer of works, Fire the priest

1605of the call, then the thought was born.

sdAEs

r@vo

yvs

1610p

hoAEBrn

1615vvr

Evy

yQCfmAn

u8Ly

1620vAj

ssvA

;

upyAEs

1625$

ErEB

5. Ever art thou delightful like grasses to that which feeds on

them, O Fire, doing well with thy voices of invocation the

pilgrim-sacrifice for man; when thou givest utterance to the

1630plenitude of the word of the illumined sage, as one who has

conquered, thou comest with thy multitude.

9 Or, the eldest

Mandala Ten

udFry

1635EptrA

jAr

BgEmyEt

1640to

iyEt

EvvE8t

vE>

1645vpyt

mKtEvyt

1650pt

mtF

6. Upward lift the Father and Mother; the lover aspires to his

enjoyment, rejoicing he obeys the urgings from his heart:

a bearer of the word he speaks and jocund longs for the

1655good work, the Mighty One puts forth his strength and is

illumined by the Thought.

1660mEt

mto

shs

1665$

aEt

1670@v

dDAno

vhmAno

1675v

#rA

;

1680amvAn

qEt

1685n

7. O Fire, O son of Force, the mortal who attains to thy right

thinking goes forward and hears the truth beyond; holding

the impelling force, borne by the horses of power, luminous

and mighty he seeks to possess the heavens.

1690ydn

eqA

sEmEtB

vAEt

1695vF

yjtA

1700yj

r&A

EvBjAEs

1705vDAvo

BAg

1710mt

vFtAt

8. When, O Fire, takes place that sacrificial assembly, O mas-

ter of sacrifice, the assembly divine among the gods, when

thou distributest the ecstasies, O lord of nature, an opulent

1715portion bring to us.

sdn

1720sDT

LvA

rTmm

1725d

Ev&

1730vh

rodsF

mAEkd

1735vAnAmp

Erh

17409. Hear us, O Fire, in thy house, in the hall of thy session,

yoke the galloping car of the Immortal; bring to us heaven

and earth, parents of the gods; let none of the gods be away

from us and mayst thou be here.

Other Hymns to Agni

1745SUKTA 12

AvA

AmA

1750-t

nA'EB2Av

Bvt

syvAcA

1755vo

ymtA

yjTAy

1760@vsFd=otA

vms

1. Heaven and earth are the first to hear and by the Truth be-

1765come possessed of the true speech when the god fashioning

the mortal for the sacrificial act takes his seat as his priest of

the call and turned towards its own force moves towards it.

1770d

vAn

pErB

1775t

vhA

h y

1780TmE

cEkvAn

1785t

sEmDA

BA-jFko

1790hotA

Enyo

vAcA

yjFyAn

2. A god encompassing the gods with the Truth, carry our

1795offering, the first to awake to the knowledge; erect, thy light

rises by the kindling with smoke for thy banner; thou art

the rapturous eternal priest of the call strong by speech for

the sacrifice.

vAv

1800d

vyAm

ydF

gorto

1805jAtAso

DAryt

uvF

1810d

1815yj

1820nF

Ed y

18253. When perfectly achieved is the immortality of the godhead,

the immortality of the Light, men born in this world hold

wide earth and heaven; all the gods follow in the track of

that sacrificial act10 of thine when the white cow is milked

of her stream of divine Light.

1830acA

vDA

yApo

1835G

AvAB

1840mF

rodsF

1845m

ahA

Avo's

nFEtmyn

1850mvA

EptrA

EffFtAm

18554. O earth and heaven, I sing to you the word of illumination,

pouring your light make my work grow, may the two firma-

ments hear me; when the days and the heavens have come

by the guidance of the force, may the Father and Mother

quicken us here with the sweetness of the wine.

186010 Or, sacrificial word

Mandala Ten

Ev3o

rAjA

1865jg

kdyA'Et

1870ck

1875d

EmE

cE=

1880h

rAZo

vA)C

loko

1885n

yAtAmEp

vAjo

aEt

5. On something in us the king has laid hold; what have we

1890done that transgresses his law who can know? Even if the

Friend is dealing crookedly with the gods there is as if a call

to us as we go, there is upon us a plenitude.

1895vAm

nAm

slLmA

1900Evq

!pA

BvAEt

ymy

1905mnvt

mvn

1910pAVy

QCn

6. Hard to seize by the mind in this world is the name of the

immortal because he puts on features and becomes diver-

gent forms; he who grasps perfectly with his mind and his

1915thought seizes its controlling law, him, O Fire, O mighty

One, undeviatingly protect.

yEmn

1920EvdT

mAdyt

Evvvt

sdn

DAryt

1925s

6yoEtrdD

1930y8t

pEr

otEn

1935crto

aj*A

7. The discovery of knowledge in which the gods find their

rapture they hold in the house of the radiant sun; they have

set in the sun its light, in the moon its rays and both circle

1940unceasingly around its illumination.

yEmn

mmEn

1945s

crypFQy

vymy

Evw

1950Emo

aAEdEtrnAgAsEvtA

1955vzZAy

voct

8. The thought in which the gods meet together, when it is

occult we know not of it. May Mitra and the indivisible

mother and the godhead of the creative sun declare us sinless

1960to Varuna.

Other Hymns to Agni

1965sdn

sDT

LvA

rTmm

1970ty

Ev&

1975no

rodsF

1980mAEkd

vAnAmp

Erh

1985yA

9. Hear us, O Fire, in thy house, in the hall of thy session,

yoke the galloping car of the Immortal; bring to us heaven

and earth, parents of the gods; let none of the gods be away

from us and mayst thou be here.

1990VIMADA AINDRA OR PRAJAPATYA

OR VASUKRIT VASUKRA

SUKTA 20

1995aEp

vAty

1. Bring to us a happy mind.

aEnmF0

2000B

yEvS

fAsA

2005d

rFt

2010Dm

spy

2015mAt

2. I pray the Fire, the friend who is irresistible in his own com-

mand, in whose law the white rays attend on the Sun-world,

serve the teat of the mother.

2020ymAsA

pnF0

BAsAk

2025vD

yEt

Ajt

EZdn

20303. Fire whom face to face a home of light, one who brings the

ray of intuition by his lustre they increase; he blazes with

his row of flaming tusks.

ayo

EvfA

2035gAt

ydAnX

Edvo

2040atAn

kEvrB

dFAn

4. He comes to us as a noble path for men when he travels to

the ends of heaven; he is the seer and he lights up the sky.11

204511 Or, the cloud.

Mandala Ten

q= yA

mAn

2050qyov

tTAv

Emvsw

2055p

eEt

5. Accepting the oblation of man he stands high exalted in the

sacrifice, a skilful craftsman; he goes in our front building

2060our home.

hEvy

2065.

Fdy

gAt

2070aEn

vAfFmtm

6. He is our secure foundation, he is our offering, he is the

2075sacrifice; his path goes swiftly to its goal: the gods call Fire

with its adze.

y.AsAh

2080iq

'En

2085y

2090$

mAy

mAh

7. I desire from the Fire, powerful for the sacrifice the work of

2095the supreme bliss;12 they speak of him as the living son of

the stone.13

nro

2100cAmdA

2105vAm

aEn

hEvqA

2110vD

8. Whatever men are with us may they in all ways abide in

happiness making the Fire to grow by the offerings.

2115Z

to'zqo

yAmo

2120b

foZo

yfvAn

2125Ehr@y!p

jEntA

jjAn

9. Black is his movement and white and luminous and crimson-

red, it is large and straight and glorious; golden of form the

2130father brought into being.

12 Or, the work that brings the supreme bliss;

13 Or, of the Rock, or the Peak.

Other Hymns to Agni

evA

2135t

Evmdo

mnFqAm

2140jo

npAdm

sjoqA

2145Egr

mtFEryAn

2150iqm

EEt

2155Ev

vmABA

10. So, O Fire, rapturous thou bearest thy thinking mind, O son

of energy, companioning the immortals, coming to us thou

2160bearest thy words and thy right thinkings, thou bringest

impelling force, energy, happy worlds of habitation, all.14

SUKTA 21

aAEn

2165vv

E8tEBho

tAr

2170ZFmh

y.Ay

tFZ

bEh

2175Ev

fFr

pAvkfoEcq

2180Evvs

1. By our self-purifications we elect thee, the Fire as our priest

of the call, for the sacrifice where strewn is the grass — in the

intoxication of your rapture — intense with thy purifying

light of flame — and thou growest to greatness.

2185vAm

vAB

2190MBy

vrADs

vAm

2195ps

cnF

2200-jFEtrn

aAh

EtEv

2. Those who have achieved possession of the Horse, are very

2205close to thee and glorify thee; the ladle goes to thee — in the

intoxication of your rapture — direct, carrying the oblation,

O Fire — and thou growest to greatness.

DmA

2210Z

aAst

2215EB

Es)ctFErv

!pA@yj

2220nA

2225vA

aED

E2yo

EDq

Evvs

22303. In thee the upholding laws reside; sprinkling out their con-

tents as with ladles black forms and white — in the intoxica-

tion of your rapture — all glories thou holdest — and thou

growest to greatness.

14 Or, Vimada, the rapturous one, coming carries to thee, O Fire, his thinking mind, to

2235thee his words and his right thinkings, brings etc.

Mandala Ten

ymn

mys

rEy

2240shsAv3my

tmA

vAjsAty

2245vo

EcmA

2250BrA

Evvs

4. O forceful and immortal Fire, whatever wealth thou deemest

fit, that for the winning of the plenitudes — in the intoxi-

cation of your rapture — bring to us, a wealth of various

2255lights in the sacrifices — and thou growest to greatness.

aEnjA

aTv

2260Evdd

vAEn

kA yA

2265vd

Evvvto

2270Ev

Eyo

ymy

2275kAMyo

Evvs

5. The Fire born from Atharvan knows all seer-wisdoms, he

becomes the messenger of the luminous sun — in the intox-

ication of your rapture — dear and desirable to the lord of

2280the law — and thou growest to greatness.

vF0t

2285yyvr

2290kAMyA

2295vA

dDAEs

dAf

Evvs

23006. Thee they pray in the sacrifices, O Fire, as the pilgrim-

sacrifice goes on its way; all desirable treasures — in the

intoxication of your rapture — thou foundest for the giver

— and thou growest to greatness.

2305y.

Evj

cAzmn

2310q

Edr

ttFk

2315qo

2320c

EtSmEBEv

7. Thee as the priest of the rite in the sacrifices men have seated,

O Fire, beautiful, luminous of front — in the intoxication of

2325your rapture — bright and, with thy eyes, most conscious of

knowledge — and thou growest to greatness.

2330foEcqoz

Tys

aEB5dn

2335v

qAys

2340gB

dDAEs

jAEmq

Evvs

8. O Fire, with thy bright light of flame thou spreadest the wide

2345Vast, clamouring thou becomest the bull — in the intoxica-

tion of your rapture — and settest the child of the womb in

Other Hymns to Agni

the sisters — and thou growest to greatness.

VATSAPRI BHALANDANA

2350SUKTA 45

EdvpEr

aEnrmd

2355E7tFy

pEr

jAtv

2360tFymJs

mZA

aj*EmDAn

2365jrt

vADF

1. Above heaven was the first birth of the Fire, over us was his

second birth as the knower of all things born, his third birth

was in the waters, a god-mind; him continuously one kindles

2370and with one’s thought perfectly fixed on him adores.

EvwA

2375yAEZ

EvwA

DAm

EvB

2380tA

EvwA

2385nAm

prm

2390EvwA

aAjgT

23952. O Fire, we know the triple three of thee, we know thy seats

borne widely in many planes, we know thy supreme Name

which is in the secrecy, we know that fount of things whence

thou camest.

2400d

mZA

aJvtn

2405cA

Edvo

UDn

2410t

tFy

rjEs

tETvA

2415smpAm

mEhqA

avD

24203. He of the god-mind kindled thee in the Ocean, within the

Waters, he of the divine vision kindled thee, O Fire, in the

teat of heaven; the mighty ones made thee to grow where

thou stoodest in the third kingdom, in the lap of the waters.

a5ddEn

2425tnyE3v

AmA

Erhd

2430vFzD

sm)jn

j.Ano

2435hFEm=o

aHydA

rodsF

BAn

2440BAyt

4. Fire cried aloud like heaven thundering, he licked the earth

revealing its growths: when kindled and born, at once he

saw all this that is; he shines out with his light between

earth and heaven.

2445Mandala Ten

2FZAm

dAro

DzZo

ryFZA

2450mnFqAZA

somgopA

2455s

shso

aJs

2460rAjA

BAyg

uqsAEmDAn

5. An exalter of glories, a holder of the riches, a manifester of

2465thinking mind, a guardian of the wine of delight, a shining

One, the son of force, the king in the Waters, he grows

luminous as he burns up in the front of the dawns.

2470k

vny

2475aA

rodsF

ZA6jAymAn

vF0

2480EcdEd

mEBnt

prAy)jnA

ydEnmyjt

p)c

24856. The ray of intuition of the universe, the child in the womb of

the world, in his coming to birth he filled earth and heaven;

going beyond them he rent even the strong mountain when

the peoples of the five births sacrificed to the Fire.

uEfk

2490pAvko

arEt

2495mt

vEnrm

DAEy

2500iyEt

mmzq

BErB

2505d

foEcqA

AEmnn

25107. An aspirant and traveller and wise of mind, a purifying

flame, the Fire who is set within as the immortal in mortals,

he sends forth and carries a ruddy smoke striving with his

bright flame of light to reach heaven.

2515fAno

uEv

yOd

2520d

mAy

E2y

2525zcAn

aEnrm

aBvd

vyoEBy

2530d

nyt

2535r

8. Visible, golden of light, widely he shone; resplendent in his

glory he is life hard to violate: the Fire by his expandings

became immortal when heaven with its strong seed had

2540brought him to birth.

Zvd

2545Bd

foc

2550d

tvtmn

2555ny

vyo

aQCA'EB

2560<

vB8t

yEvS

9. O god, O happy light, O Fire, he who has prepared for

2565thee the luminous honeycomb15 him lead forward towards

15 Or, the cake of light

Other Hymns to Agni

a more opulent state, O youthful godhead, even to the bliss

enjoyed by the gods.

2570aA

sO2vs

2575u8Tu8T

fymAn

2580s

Eyo

anA

2585BvAy

6jAt

EBndd

6jEnv

2590#

10. O Fire, bestow on him his share in the things of inspired

knowledge, in word upon word as it is spoken: he becomes

dear to the sun, dear to Fire; upward he breaks with what

2595is born in him, upward with the things that are to be born.

vAmn

yjmAnA

2600n

dEDr

2605vAyA

vyA

2610EvZEmQCmAnA

gomtm

Efjo

2615Ev

11. O Fire, men who sacrifice to thee day after day hold in

themselves all desirable riches; desiring the treasure in thy

companionship, aspiring, they burst open the covered pen

2620of the Ray-Cows.

atA yEnn

2625vo

vAnr

-EqEB

2630somgopA

AvAp

ETvF

2635h

2640D1

rEymm

vFrm

12. The Fire has been affirmed in their lauds by the sages, he

2645who is full of bliss for men, the Universal Godhead, guardian

of the wine of delight. Let us invoke earth and heaven free

from hostile powers; found in us, O gods, a wealth full of

hero-mights.

SUKTA 46

2650hotA

jAto

mhAn

nBoEv3

q7A

2655sFddpAm

dEDyo

DAEy

2660t

vyA

ytA

2665$

EvDt

2670pA

1. The great priest of the call has been born; the knower of the

heavens, he who is seated in man, may he take his seat in

the lap of the waters: he who upholds us and who is held

in us, rules for thee his worshipper thy expandings and thy

2675riches and is the protector of thy body.

Mandala Ten

EvDto

apA

2680sDT

2685#rn

cttm

2690Efjo

nmoEBErQCto

DFrA

gvo'Evdn

26952. They worshipped him in the session of the waters, as if

the cow of vision lost they followed him by his tracks;

where he hid in the secret cavern, aspiring with obeisance

the Flame-Seers, the wise thinkers desired and found him.

2700Eto

EvdEdQCn

2705v

vso

2710$

yyAyA

2715v

jAt

hMy

2720q

nAEBy

BvEt

rocny

27253. Him greatly desiring Trita,16 son of the master of wide

riches, found on the head of the light unslayable; he is born

the youth who increases the felicity in our mansions and

becomes the navel-centre of the luminous world.

2730hotArm

Efjo

nmoEB

A)c

2735n

tArmvrAZAm

EvfAmk

@v3rEt

pAvk

2740h yvAh

dDto

mAn

27454. In their aspiration they created him by their obeisance and

set him in men as the rapturous priest of the call, the sacrifi-

cer ever-moving forward, the leader of the pilgrim-sacrifices,

the traveller, the carrier of the offering, the purifying Flame.

2750$

mhA

EvpoDA

2755m

2760r

dmA

2765nyto

vnA

EDy

2770Eh

nAvA

2775Dnc

5. He has come into being and leading him like a golden-

maned war-horse, the great, the victorious, the founder of

the Light, men ignorant one who is free from ignorance, the

2780render of the cities, the child of the forests, whose wealth is

the illumined word17 — they established the thought.

16 Trita the triple born from the All-pervading Substance.

17 Or, the illumination

Other Hymns to Agni

2785En

pyAs

2790yn

pErvFto

yonO

sFddt

2795s

EvfA

2800$

EvDm

ZAy

#rFyt

2805n

6. May Trita in the homesteads holding all firmly18 take his ses-

sion in his native seat within and all-encompassing; thence,

2810a dweller in man’s home, taking all into his grasp, by a wide

law of his action, by unrestrained movements he journeys

to the gods.

ayAjrAso

dmAmErA

2815ac

mAso

2820any

pAvkA

vtFcy

vAAso

2825B

r@yvo

vnq

vAyvo

2830n

somA

7. His ageless and purifying fires are the defenders of our

homes, lifting their luminous smoke; white-flaming, dwell-

ers in the Tree, they are our strengtheners and supporters

2835and like winds and like wine.

Ej4yA

Brt

2840aEn

nAEn

tsA

2845p

ET yA

tmAyv

cyt

2850pAvk

hotAr

dEDr

yEjSm

28558. Fire carries with his tongue the illumination of wisdom,

he carries in his consciousness earth’s discoveries of knowl-

edge; him men hold the illuminating and purifying rapturous

priest of the call most strong for sacrifice.

AvA

2860ymEn

ETvF

jEnAmApvA

2865gvo

shoEB

2870Tm

mAtEr

vAtt

2875m

yjm

9. This is the Fire to whom earth and heaven gave birth; and

the waters, the form-maker and the Flame-Seers by their

2880strengths and life that grows in the mother and the gods have

fashioned for man desirable, first and supreme, a master of

sacrifice.

18 Or, setting himself firmly

Mandala Ten

2885y

dEDr

2890h yvAh

mAn

2895qAso

yjm

yAm3n

2900vt

vyo

vyn

2905yfs

2910vF

10. Thou art he whom the gods have set as the carrier of the

offerings and men with their many desires as the lord of

sacrifice; so do thou, O Fire, found in thy journeying wide

2915expansion for him who lauds thee and making him divine

gather in him many glorious things.

DEVAS AND AGNI SAUCHIKA

SUKTA 51

mht

2920td

TEvr

tdAsF

nAEvEt

2925Evv

EfTAp

2930yd

2935jAtv

dtvo

29401. Large was the covering and it was dense in which thou wert

wrapped when thou didst enter into the waters; one was the

god who saw thee but many and manifold were thy bodies

which he saw, O Fire, O knower of all things born.

2945mA

ddf

ktm

2950vo

tvo

2955DA

8vAh

2960EmAvzZA

Eyyn

sEmDo

2965d

vyAnF

2. Which of the gods was he who saw everywhere my bodies

in many forms? O Mitra and Varuna, where then dwell all

the blazings of the Fire which are paths of the gods?

2970e

QCAm

2975jAtv

Evmn

aJvoqDFq

2980vA

ymo

aEck

EQcBAno

dfAtzyAdEtrocmAnm

29853. We desire thee, O Fire, O knower of all things born, when

thou hast entered manifoldly into the growths of the earth

and into the waters; there the lord of the law grew aware of

thee, O thou of the many diverse lights, shining luminous

beyond the ten inner dwelling-places.

2990Other Hymns to Agni

hoAdh

vzZ

Eb ydAy

2995d

nj3

3000d

tvo

3005bh

EnEvA

etmT

3010Eck

tAhmEn

4. O Varuna, fearing the sacrificants’ office that so the gods

might not yoke me to that work, so my bodies entered

manifoldly, for I, Fire, was not conscious of this goal of

3015the movement.

eEh

3020y

.kAmo'r

tmEs

3025yn

gAn

3030Z

vyAnAn

3035h yAEn

mnymAn

5. Come to us; the human being, god-seeking, is desirous of

sacrifice, he has made all ready but thou dwellest in the dark-

3040ness, O Fire. Make the paths of the journeying of the gods

easy to travel, let thy mind be at ease, carry the offerings.

3045v

Atro

3050t

rTFvAvAnmvAvrFv

tmAd

EByA

vzZ

3055d

rmAy

gOro

3060JnorEvj

6yAyA

6. The ancient brothers of the Fire chose this goal to be reached

as charioteers follow a path; therefore in fear I came far

away, O Varuna. I started back as a gaur from the bowstring

3065of the archer.

aAy

3070rjr

ydn

yTA

8to

3075jAtv

EryA

aTA

3080vhAEs

mnymAno

BAg

3085v

hEvq

jAt

30907. Since we make thy life imperishable, O Fire, O knower of

all things born, so that yoked with it thou shalt not come

to harm, then with thy mind at ease thou canst carry their

share of the offering to the gods, O high-born Fire.

yAjAn

3095m

yAjA

;

3100k

vlAn

3105hEvqo

BAgm

3110cApA

cOqDFnAmn

3115dFG

mAy

31208. Give me the absolutes that precede and follow the sacrifice

as my share of the oblation packed with the energy; give me

the light from the waters and the soul from the plants and

let there be long life for the Fire, O gods.

Mandala Ten

3125tv

yAjA

3130k

vto

hEvq

3135st

BAgA

tvAn

y.o'ymt

3140t

nmtA

Edf

ct*

31459. Thine be the absolutes, precedents and consequents of the

sacrifice, the portions packed with energy of the oblation;

thine, O Fire, be all this sacrifice; may the four regions bow

down to thee.

SUMITRA VADHRYASHWA

3150SUKTA 69

3155y

3160vAmF

ZFEt

rZA

3165ty

ydF

EmA

Evfo

3170ag

iDt

nAh

3175to

jrt

dEv

1. Happy are the seeings of the Fire of the gelded Horse, plea-

3180surable his guidance, delightful his approaches; when the

friendly peoples set him ablaze in their front, fed with the

oblations of the Light he flames up for his worshipper.

tmn

3185v

3190G

tm3

tMvy

3195dnm

nAh

3200uEv

3205$

roct

sEp

3210rAs

2. The Light is the increasing of the Fire of the gelded Horse,

Light is his food, Light is his fattening: fed with the oblation

of the Light wide he spread; he shines as the Sun when there

3215is poured on him its running stream.

3220dnFk

smFD

3225tEdd

nvFy

vQCoc

3230s

Egro

3235vAj

dEq

2vo

3240DA

3. The force of flame which thinking man, which the friendly

one, set ablaze, this is that new force, O Fire; so opulently

shine, so accept our words, so take the plenitude by violence,

so found here the inspired knowledge.

3245Other Hymns to Agni

3250v

mFE0to

smFD

3255an

3260s

EtpA

BvA

3265tn

3270yEdd

4. That flame of thine of old which the gelded Horse, when

prayed, set blazing high, O Fire who art that flame, this too

3275accept; as that flame, become the protector of our stable

erections and the protector of our bodies, guard this giving

of thine which is here in us.

BvA

3280vAy

vot

gopA

3285tArFdEBmAEtj

nAnAm

3290iv

Qyvn

3295Em

voc

vAy

3300nAm

5. Become full of light, O gelded Horse, and become our pro-

tector, let not the assault of men pierce thee; thou art like a

hero, a violent overthrower and the good Friend: lo, I have

uttered the names of the Fire of the gelded Horse.

3305sm{

3310$

dAsA

A@yAyA

3315Ejg

3320iv

Qyvno

jnAnA

3325vmn

tnAy

;rEB

3330yA

6. Thou hast conquered the riches of the plains and the riches

of the mountain, the destroyer foemen, and the Aryan

freemen: like a hero art thou, a violent overthrower of men,

O Fire, mayst thou overcome those who battle against us.

3335dFG

AymEn

3340sh*trF

ftnFT

- vA

mAn

3345n

EBm

6ymAn

3350q

dFdyo

vys

7. This Fire is the long Thread, the vast Bull, one with a thou-

3355sand layers and a hundred leadings, he is the Craftsman;

luminous in men luminous, made bright by the hands of

men, may he flame out in the strivers after godhead, in the

friendly people.19

19 In the Sumitras, the name of the Rishi; but throughout the hymn there is a double or

3360symbolic meaning in the names.

Mandala Ten

3365s

jAtv

do's

3370ct

smnA

sbD

3375v

EBd

EZAvEYrn

3380Em

EBErys

vyEY

8. In thee is the good milch-cow, O knower of all things born,

3385as if unstayingly equal in its yield, giving its nectar-milk.

O Fire, thou art set alight by men who have the intuitive

judgment, strivers after godhead, the friendly people.

vAE

3390ct

jAtv

3395do

mEhmAn

vAy

vocn

3400yt

mAn

3405qFEv

aAyn

3410EBrjyvAv

9. Even the immortal gods proclaim thy greatness, O knower

of all things born, O Fire of the gelded Horse. That which I

3415sought by questioning, coming to the human peoples, thou

hast conquered by men who grow by thee.20

Ept

3420mEbBzpT

vAmn

spy

3425n

qAZo

sEmD

3430yEvSot

nvnov

3435A

DtE

10. Thee as the father carries his son in his lap so the gelded

3440Horse carried and tended thee, O Fire; O youthful god,

accepting his fuel thou didst conquer even the supreme and

mighty.

vdEnv

3445y

3450n

EBEj

gAy

tsomvEY

3455smn

EcddhE

cBAno'v

ADtmEBnd

3460v

11. Fire has ever conquered the enemies of the gelded Horse by

men who have pressed the Soma wine; O thou of the bright

3465diverse lights, thou hast broken and cast down the foe that

was equal and the foe that was mighty and thou hast given

him increase.

aymEnv

3470vy

snkAt

3475nmsopvA

ajAmF

;zt

3480vA

EvjAmFnEB

EtS

3485vAy

12. This Fire is the slayer of the enemies of the gelded Horse, lit

20 Or, who make thee grow in them.

Other Hymns to Agni

3490from of old and to be invoked with obeisance; so do thou

assail those who attack him, both the uncompanioned and

the one with many companions, O Fire of the gelded Horse.

SUKTA 70

imA

3495m

sEmD

35000pd

hyA

tAcFm

3505vm

ET yA

3510Ednv

a>Am

3515s

5to

vy6yA

1. O Fire, accept the fuel I give thee; in the seat of revela-

3520tion take joy in the luminous Thought: on the high top of

earth, in the brightness of the days, become high uplifted by

worship of sacrifice to the gods, O strong of will!

3525vAnAmg

yAv

yAt

nrAf

3530so

v!p

EBr

3535#

-ty

pTA

nmsA

Emy

3540Do

3545vtm

35502. May he who travels in front of the gods, he who voices the

godhead, come here with his horses of universal forms; pure

and most divine, may he hasten with our obeisance on the

path of the Truth to the gods.

3555v1mmF0t

yAy

hEvmto

3560mn

yAso

aEnm

vEhS

3565v

3570rT

nA''

vAn

3575En

hotA

3. Men bringing their offerings ask for the Fire everlasting to

3580be their envoy: so do thou with thy horses strong to bear

and thy swiftly moving car bring to us the gods; take here

thy seat as the priest of the call.

TtA

3585d

Etr

dFG

3590d

AmA

rEB

3595$

0tA

mnsA

3600d

bEh

Erd

3605SA

;

ufto

3610vAn

4. May the seat acceptable to the gods spread wide in us and

all its long horizontal length become fragrant. Occupy that

seat, O god, with a mind not inclining to wrath, and to the

gods with Indra for their greatest offer sacrifice.

3615Mandala Ten

Edvo

sAn

3620ftA

vrFy

ET yA

3625mAyA

2yvm

uftF7A

3630mEhnA

mhEYd

rTy

3635DA

ryvm

5. Touch either heaven’s superior peak or swing wide open

with all the extent of earth, O doors of aspiration, who

desire the chariot of the gods, hold in your greatness and by

3640the great the divine car.

Edvo

3645EhtrA

EfSp

uqAsAn8tA

sdtA

3650En

yonO

3655vAs

uftF

uft

urO

sFdt

3660s

upT

6. Let the two divine daughters of heaven, formed beautifully,

dawn and night, sit in their native seat; O dawn and night,

3665O you who aspire, may the gods aspiring sit on your wide

lap, O blissful ones.

Uvo

AvA

3670b

hdEn

sEm=

EyA

DAmAyEdt

3675zpT

roEhtAv

EvjA

3680aEmn

Evd

EvZmA

3685yj

TAm

7. High stands up the stone of the pressing, high the Fire is

kindled, may it touch the vast and the seats dear to us

in the lap of the infinite mother; O you who are vicars

3690and ordinants of the rite in this sacrifice, you twain who

have greater knowledge, may you win for us by sacrifice the

Treasure.

Et*o

3695vFb

Erd

vrFy

3700sFdt

yonm

3705mn

EDtA

3710hvF

qF0A

3715tpdF

8. O ye three goddesses, sit on the superior seat which we have

made delightful for you; may the mother of Revelation and

3720the two goddesses with the luminous feet accept our firmly

placed offerings and our human worship of sacrifice.

3725=

cAzvmAnX

ydEHrsAmBv

scAB

3730s

vAnA

pAT

3735Ev7An

EvZod

3740s

9. O divine maker of forms, since thou hast reached beauty in

Other Hymns to Agni

thy works, since thou hast become companion in thy being

3745to the Angiras seers, forward then to the goal of the jour-

neyings of the gods, for thou knowest it! Aspiring, perfect

in ecstasy, sacrifice to the gods, O giver of the treasure.

vnpt

rfnyA

3750Eny

vAnA

3755pAT

Ev7An

vdAEt

3760d

Zv=vF

yvtA

3765AvAp

ETvF

377010. O Tree, knowing the goal of the journeyings of the gods,

bear us to it binding with the radiant cord. May the godhead

fashion the offerings in which he takes pleasure: may heaven

and earth protect our call.

aAn

3775vh

vzZEmy

Edvo

3780mzto

atErAt

sFdt

bEh

3785v

yjA

vAhA

3790vA

mAdytAm

11. O Fire, bring Varuna to our sacrifice, Indra from heaven,

3795the Life-Gods from mid-air; may all the lords of sacrifice sit

on our sacred seat, may the immortal gods take rapture in

the sv¯ah¯a.

AGNI SAUCHIKA OR VAISHWANARA

OR SAPTI VAJAMBHARA

3800SUKTA 79

ymy

mhto

mEhvmmy

3805y

myA

nAnA

3810hn

EvB

3815Br

aEsvtF

bJstF

3820$

1. I have seen the greatness of this great one, the Immortal in

the mortal peoples. The jaws of this abundant eater, sepa-

rate and held apart, are brought close together, devouring,

3825insatiable.

Mandala Ten

Efro

3830EnEhtm

DgF

aEsv3E1

Ej4yA

vnAEn

3835aA@ym

pEX

3840Bry

1AnhtA

nmsAED

2. His head is in the secrecy, his eyes wide apart, insatiable

3845he eats up the forest with his tongue of flame. They bring

together his foods for him with the pacings of their feet,

their hands of obeisance are outstretched in the peoples.

mAt

3850g

VEmQCn

mAro

3855vFzD

3860n

p8vmEvdQC

ErEr4A

3865Erp

upT

3. Desiring the secret place of the mother farther beyond he

crawls like a child over the wide growths of earth. One finds

3870him shining like ripe corn, licking away the hurts, within in

her lap.

t7Am

rodsF

3875b

vFEm

jAymAno

mAtrA

gBo

3880aE1

nAh

3885E

tA'EnrH

Evc

3890s

4. O heaven and earth, I declare to you that Truth of you,

— in his very birth the child of your womb devours his

3895parents. I am mortal and know not of the godhead; Fire is

the all-conscious knower and he is the thinker.

amA

3900t

vAdDAyA6y

3905hoEt

yEt

3910sh*mEBEv

3915yEs

5. He who sets swiftly for him his food casts on him the out-

pourings of light by which he is nourished, for him he sees

with a thousand eyes: O Fire, thou frontest us on every side.

3920Ek

3925en

ckTA

QCAEm

3930n

vAmEv7An

a5F0n

5F0n

hErr1v

3935'dn

ckt

3940gAEmvAEs

6. What omission or sin hast thou done before the gods, I ask

thee, O Fire, for I know not. In his play unplaying a tawny

lion, eating only to devour, he has cut all asunder limb by

limb, as a knife cuts the cow.

3945Other Hymns to Agni

Evq

3950vAn

3955jA

-jFEtBF

rfnAEBg

BFtAn

3960Emo

jAt

3965smAn

EBvA

3970DAn

7. He who is born in the forests has yoked his horses tending

all ways but caught back by straight-held reins. Mitra, well-

born, has distributed to him the treasures and he has grown

to completeness increasing in every member.

3975SUKTA 80

aEn

sEP

vAj

3980ddAyEnvF

EnSAm

3985anF

rodsF

crt

sm)j3EnnA

3990rF

vFrk

3995EDm

1. Fire gives to us the Horse that carries the plenitude, Fire

gives the Hero who has the inspired hearing and stands firm

in the work; Fire ranges through earth and heaven revealing

all things, Fire gives the Woman, the tenant of the city,21

4000from whose womb is born the hero.

rJns

sEmdt

4005A'Enm

rodsF

Evv

4010f

aEnr

codyt

smvEnv

4015AEZ

dyt

!EZ

2. May there be a happy fuel for Fire at his labour, Fire enters

4020into the great earth and heaven: Fire urges on one who is

all alone in his battles, Fire cleaves asunder the multitude of

the enemy.

aEnh

4025jrt

mAvA'Enrd

Enrdh6j!Tm

4030aEnrE

uzydtrEnn

4035jyAs

3. Fire has protected the ear22 of the worshipper,23 Fire burnt

out the Waster24 from the waters; Fire delivered Atri within

404021 Or, the many-thoughted,

22 Tyam, “that other” ear, the inner ear which listens to inspired knowledge.

23 Sayana takes the two words jaratah. karn.a as if they were one indicating the name of

the Rishi “Jaratkarna”.

24 Sayana renders jar¯utha “a demon”.

4045Mandala Ten

the blaze,25 Fire united man’s sacrifice with its progeny.26

aEndA

4050EvZ

vFrp

aEn-

4055y

sh*A

snoEt

aEnEd

4060h ymA

ttAnA'n

mAEn

EvB

4065tA

4. May Fire in the hero’s shape give us the Treasure, may Fire

give us the sage who wins the thousands; Fire has extended

4070the offering in heaven, his are the planes upheld separately

in many spaces.

aEnm

4075qyo

4yt

'En

nro

4080yAmEn

bAEDtAs

aEn

vyo

atEr

4085ptto'En

sh*A

pEr

yAEt

gonAm

40905. Fire the sages with their utterances call to every side, to

Fire men call who are opposed in their march, to Fire the

Birds flying in mid-air; Fire encircles the thousands of the

Ray-Cows.

aEn

4095Evf

I0t

mAn

qFyA

aEn

4100mn

4105jAtA

aEngA

DvF

pLyAm

tyA'n

4110g

EtG

4115aA

Enq1A

6. Fire the peoples pray who are human, Fire men of different

birth who dwell as neighbours, Fire brings the Gandharvi

to the path of the Truth, the Fire’s path of the Ray-Cows is

4120settled in the Light.

any

-Bvtt

rEn

4125mhAmvocAmA

E8tm

4130Av

jErtAr

yEvSA'n

mEh

4135EvZmA

yjv

7. The divine craftsmen have fashioned the Wisdom-Word for

the Fire, the Fire we have declared as a vast purification. O

ever-youthful Fire, protect thy worshipper; O Fire, win for

4140him by sacrifice the great Treasure.

25 Sayana renders “in the hot cauldron in the earth”.

26 Sayana renders “gave progeny to the Rishi Nrimedha”.

Other Hymns to Agni

PAYU BHARADWAJA

4145SUKTA 87

rohZ

vAEjnmA

EjGEm

4150ETSm

yAEm

EffAno

4155aEn

sEm=

4160no

EdvA

Erq

pAt

4165n8tm

1. I set ablaze Fire of the plenitude, the slayer of the Rakshasas,

I approach him as a friend and the widest house of refuge;27

the Fire has been kindled and grows intense by the workings

of the will, may he protect us from the doer of hurt, by the

4170day and by the night.

ayod

aEc

4175yAt

DAnAn

4180jAtv

sEm=

Ej4yA

4185m

vAn

rBv

41905 yAdo

8 yEp

DvAsn

2. O knower of all things born, high-kindled, iron-tusked,

4195touch with thy ray the demon-sorcerers; do violence to them

with thy tongue of flame, the gods who kill,28 the eaters of

flesh, putting them off from us shut them into thy mouth.

uBoByAEv3

4200D

4205*

EffAno'vr

utAtEr

4210pEr

yAEh

rAj)jMB

4215D

VEB

yAt

DAnAn

3. Destruction, whetting set upon them both thy tusks, the

4220higher and the lower, O thou who art of both worlds,29

thou circle in the mid-air, O king, and snap up in thy jaws

the demon-sorcerers.

#Erq

4225$

nmmAno

vAcA

4230fSyA

;

afEnEBEd

hAn

tAEBEv

4235y

}dy

yAt

DAnAn

tFco

4240bAh

4245y

qAm

4. Turning on them by our sacrifices thy arrows, O Fire, by our

27 Or, a widest peace;

28 Or, the gods of ignorance,

425029 Or, O thou who hast both,

Mandala Ten

speech thy javelins, plastering them with thy thunderbolts

pierce with these in their hearts the demon-sorcerers who

confront us, break their arms.

4255an

yAt

DAny

EBED

4260Eh

*AfEnh

rsA

4265pvA

jAtv

4270ZFEh

5 yAt

5EvZ

Ecnot

4275v

8Zm

5. O Fire, tear the skin of the demon-sorcerer; let the cruel

thunderbolt slay him in its wrath; rend his limbs, O knower

of all things born; hungry for its flesh let the carrion-eater

4280pick asunder his mangled body.

dAnF

yEs

4285jAtv

dEtStmn

crtm

4290yd

vAtEr

pETEB

ptt

tmtA

4295Evy

fvA

EffAn

6. Wherever now thou seest him, O knower of all things born,

whether standing or walking, or flying on the paths in the

4300mid-air, a shooter sharpening his weapon, pierce him with

thy arrow.

utAlND

4305Eh

jAtv

aAl

BAnAd

4310EEByA

DAnAt

4315$

jEh

fof

4320cAn

aAmAd

ELvAtmdv

7. Rescue from the assault of the demon-sorcerer with his

4325spears the man touched by his grasp, O knower of all things

born, O Fire, blazing supreme slay these devourers of the

flesh; let the brilliant birds of prey eat him up.

4330$

ytm

4335yo

yAt

DAno

4340k

ZoEt

tmA

rBv

sEmDA

4345yEvS

4350rDy

#nm

8. Here proclaim which is he, O Fire, what demon-sorcerer,

who is the doer of this deed? To him do violence with thy

blaze, O youthful god, subject him to the eye of thy divine

4355vision.

Other Hymns to Agni

tFLZ

nAn

4360qA

A)c

4365 y

4370*

yEB

fof

cAn

4375mA

dBn

yAt

DAnA

4380n

9. O Fire, guard with thy keen eye the sacrifice, lead it moving

forward to the Shining Ones, O conscious thinker; O thou

of the divine vision, when thou blazest fierce against the

4385Rakshasas let not the demon-sorcerers overcome thee.

pEr

4390p

FEZ

4395Et

ZFVg

tyAn

4400p

rsA

ZFEh

4405DA

yAt

4410DAny

10. Divine of vision, see everywhere the Rakshasa in the peo-

4415ples, cleave the three peaks of him; his flanks, O Fire, cleave

with thy wrath, rend asunder the triple root of the demon-

sorcerer.

EyA

4420DAn

EsEt

4425yo

4430hEt

tmEc

4435j

y)jAtv

smm

4440g

4445D

11. Triply may the demon-sorcerer undergo thy onrush, he who

slays the Truth by falsehood; him overspreading with thy

ray, O knower of all things born, fell down in front of him

who hymns thee.

4450tdn

4455r

fPAzj

4460p

yEs

yAt

DAnm

aTv

4465v66yoEtqA

# y

4470D

tmEct

yoq

447512. Set in thy singer, O Fire, the eye with which thou seest the

trampler with his hooves, the demon-sorcerer; even as did

Atharvan, burn with the divine Light this being without

knowledge who does hurt to the Truth.

ydn

4480a

EmT

fpAto

4485vAct

jnyt

myom

4490ns

fr yA

jAyt

tyA

4495Evy

}dy

yAt

DAnAn

13. The cursing with which today couples revile each other, the

4500curses which are born in the imprecations of the singers,

the arrow which is born from the mind of wrath, with that

pierce through the heart the demon-sorcerers.

Mandala Ten

prA

4505f

ZFEh

tpsA

yAt

DAnAn

4510prAn

hrsA

ZFEh

4515prAEc

4520vA)C

ZFEh

prAs

4525aEB

fof

cAn

14. Away from us cleave by thy burning energy the demon-

sorcerers, away from us cleave by the heat of thy wrath

4530the Rakshasa, O Fire, away from us cleave by thy ray these

slayer gods,30 blazing away from us cleave these who glut

themselves with men’s lives.

prA

4535vA

Ejn

4540yg

fpTA

4545A

vAcAt

frv

-QCt

4550mm

4555EsEt

yAt

DAn

15. May the gods cleave away today the crooked one, may harsh

curses come to confront him, may the shafts enter into the

4560vital part of one who thieves by speech, may he undergo the

onset of each and every one, the demon-sorcerer.

pOzq

4565Z

5EvqA

smR

4570a

4575yAt

DAn

ayAyA

BrEt

4580Frmn

fFqA

4585hrsAEp

16. The demon who feeds on the flesh of human beings, who

feeds on horses and on cattle, the one who carries away the

4590milk of the Cow unslayable, cut asunder their necks with

the flame of thy anger, O Fire.

vsrFZ

4595uE*yAyAty

mAfFd

yAt

DAno

4600c

pFy

qmn

ytmEtt

4605JsAt

y)cmEc

Evy

4610mm

17. O thou who hast the divine vision, let not the demon-

sorcerer partake of the yearly milk of the shining cow; O

Fire, whichever of them would glut himself on the nectar

4615him pierce in front in his vital part with thy ray of light.

Evq

gvA

yAt

DAnA

4620EpbvA

QytAmEdty

4625vA

#nAn

4630sEvtA

ddAt

prA

BAgmoqDFnA

jytAm

463518. May the demon-sorcerers drink poison from the Ray-Cows,

30 Or, the gods of ignorance,

Other Hymns to Agni

may they be cloven asunder who are of evil impulse before

the infinite mother, may the divine sun betray them to thee,

4640may they be deprived of their share of the growths of earth.

snAdn

ZEs

yAt

4645DAnAn

4650p

tnAs

Ejy

4655shm

rAn

5 yAdo

4660t

4665d

# yAyA

19. Ever dost thou crush the demon-sorcerer, O Fire, never have

the Rakshasas conquered thee in the battles; burn one by

one from their roots the eaters of raw flesh, may they find

4670no release from thy divine missile.

aDrAd

4675d8tAt

cAd

4680rA

rtAt

4685t

ajrAstEpSA

aGf

fof

4690cto

dht

20. O Fire, do thou guard us from above and from below, thou

from behind and from the front; may those most burning

4695ageless flames of thine blazing burn one who is a voice of

evil.

cAt

4700rtAdDrAd

d8tAt

kEv

kA y

4705pEr

pAEh

rAjn

sKAymjro

4710jErMZ

mtA

nmy

4715n

21. From behind and from in front, from below and from above,

a seer by thy seer-wisdom protect us, O king; a friend protect

thy friend, ageless protect from old age, immortal protect

us who are mortals, O Fire.

4720pEr

vAn

4725Ev

shy

DFmEh

q7Z

4730Edv

Edv

htAr

rAvtAm

473522. O forceful Fire, let us think of thee, the illumined sage as a

fortress around us, one violent of aspect, slayer from day to

day of the crooked ones.

Mandala Ten

Evq

4740Z

rAvt

4745rso

Etm

4750foEcqA

AEB-

EEB

475523. Consume with poison the crooked Rakshasas; O Fire, burn

them with thy keen flame, with thy fiery-pointed spears.

EmT

4760dh

yAt

DAnA

EkmFEdnA

4765vA

EffAEm

jAg

VdND

4770mmEB

24. Burn the bewildered demon couples; I whet thee to sharp-

ness, inviolate, with my thoughts, O illumined sage; awake.

hrsA

4775hr

ZFEh

4780Et

yAt

DAny

rso

4785Ev

vFy

25. O Fire, cleave asunder their wrath with thy flame of wrath

4790to every side; break utterly the strength, the energy of the

Rakshasa, of the demon-sorcerer.

ARUNA VAITAHAVYA

SUKTA 91

4795jAg

vEYj

rmAZ

iyt

4800dm

iqyE30pd

4805vy

hotA

hEvqo

@yo

4810EvB

BAvA

qKA

4815sKFyt

1. Adored by those who are wakeful, the dweller in the house

is kindled in the house aspiring in the seat of revelation, the

sacrificant of every offering, one Supreme,31 wide of being,

wide in light, a perfect friend to the man who seeks his

4820friendship.

31 Or, one desirable,

Other Hymns to Agni

4825t2FrEtETg

4830vn

EfE2y

t8vvFErv

4835jyo

nAEt

myt

Evf

4840Et

Evf

Evfm

48452. In his visioned glory he lodges as the guest in every house,

as a bird in forest and forest; he disdains not the peoples,

universal he dwells in being and being, common to all he

dwells in man and man.

4850do

nAEs

4855s

kEv

kA y

4860nAEs

vEvt

4865s

yEs

4870k

AvA

yAEn

4875p

ETvF

48803. Thou art discerning in thy judgments, strong of will in thy

workings of will, O Fire, an omniscient seer in thy seer-

wisdoms; a possessor of riches thou rulest sole over all the

riches nourished by earth and by heaven.

jAn3n

4885tv

yoEnm

EvyEm0AyApd

tvtmAsd

4890aA

EcEk

uqsAEmv

tyo'r

4895ps

4900v

4. Thou hast known and reached thy luminous native seat

where is the order of the Truth in the plane of revelation; free

4905from stain of evil have come thy perceptions of knowledge

like the white brilliances of the dawns,32 like rays of the sun.

E2yo

4910y

cAE

4915cEk

uqsA

4920ydoqDFrEBs

vnAEn

pEr

4925vy

Ecn

a3mAy

5. Thy glories like lightnings from a storm cloud break into

4930light of knowledge brilliant like the rays of intuition of the

dawns; when loosed on the growths of earth and woods of

pleasance thou seekest out thyself the food for thy mouth.33

tmoqDFd

EDr

4935gB

Evy

tmApo

aEn

4940jnyt

mAtr

tEmt

smAn

vEnn

4945c

vFzDo'tv

4950vt

vhA

6. Him the growths of earth held as a child in the womb in

495532 Or, like the advents of the dawns,

33 Or, heapest food in thy mouth.

Mandala Ten

whom was the order of the Truth, the Waters become the

mothers of that Fire who gave him birth; he is the common

4960child with whom the pleasance-woods and the plants of

earth are pregnant and they are delivered of him always.

vAtopD

4965iEqto

vfA

;

4970q

yd3A

Evqd

EvEtSs

4975aA

ytt

rLyo

yTA

4980p

fDA

ajrAEZ

4985Dt

7. Missioned, fanned by the wind when swiftly entering into

thy food thou spreadest wide after thy desire, thy ageless

hosts, as thou burnest, toil like chariot-warriors far apart.

4990DAkAr

EvdTy

sADnmEn

hotAr

pErB

4995$

mEtm

tEmdB

hEvyA

5000smAnEmt

tEmmh

nAy

5005vt

8. Fire the creator of wisdom, the accomplisher of the dis-

covery of knowledge, Fire the priest of the call, the all-

embracing thinker, him they choose universal in the little

offering, him in the great, — not another, O Fire, than thou.

5010vAEmd

vAyvo

hotArmn

5015EvdT

5020d

vyto

dDEt

5025t

hEvmto

mnvo

8tbEh

5030q

9. The ordainers of the work, they who desire thee, choose

thee as priest of the call in their discoveries of knowledge

when the seekers of the godhead hold thy delight,34 human

beings who have plucked for thee the sacred grass of thy

5035seat and have brought their offerings.

tvAn

pom

5040Evy

vmEnd

tAyt

5045tv

vmvrFyEs

5050cAEs

hpEt

5055dm

10. O Fire, thine are the call and the offering, thine the purifi-

cation and the order of the sacrifice, thine the lustration;

thou art the fire-bringer for the seeker of the Truth. The

506034 Or, set before thee the things of thy delight,

Other Hymns to Agni

annunciation is thine, thou becomest the pilgrim-rite:35 thou

art the priest of the Word and the master of the house in our

home.

5065yt

ymn

tAy

5070sEmDA

dAfd

hEvk

5075Et

hotA

BvEs

yAEs

5080d

5085$

yjyvrFyEs

11. [Not translated.]

imA

5090am

mtyo

vAco

amdA

5095;

-co

Egr

5100smmt

yvo

vsv

5105jAtv

=As

Ecd

5110vD

yAs

cAknt

12. For him these thoughts and utterances go forth from us,

5115these words high and hymns of illumination and these high

lauds and meet together seeking the riches for the master of

riches, for the knower of all things born, and his desire is

towards them.

imA

5120&Ay

nvFysF

voc

5125ymmA

uft

Zot

5130B

atrA

5135Enp

jAy

5140uftF

vAsA

13. I would speak to the ancient One a laud new to his desire,

may he hear us; may it avail to touch his heart deep within

5145like a wife beautifully robed for her lord’s desire.

yEm3

vAs

-qBAs

uZo

5150vfA

avs

5155aAh

kFlAlp

somp

SAy

5160v

}dA

mEt

jny

5165cAzmny

14. Fire to whom are loosed and offered our horses, our bulls

and oxen and heifers and our rams, to Fire the nectar-drinker

who bears on his back the Soma wine, to the ordainer of

things, I beget a thinking full of beauty from my heart.

5170ahA yn

hEvrAy

cFv

5175G

cMvFv

som

vAjsEn

5180rEymm

vFr

5185Eh

yfs

htm

15. An oblation has been offered into thy mouth, O Fire, as if

519035 Or, thou art the priest of the pilgrim-rite:

Mandala Ten

clarified butter in a ladle, as if Soma wine in a bowl. Found

in us the treasure in which are the heroes and which wins

for us the plenitudes, — the treasure excellent36 and glorious

5195and vast.

JAMADAGNI BHARGAVA

OR RAMA JAMADAGNYA

SUKTA 110

sEm=o

5200a

roZ

5205d

vAn

yjEs

5210jAtv

5215EmmhE

cEkvAn

5220t

kEvrEs

1. High-kindled today in the house of the human being, thou

5225doest sacrifice a god to the gods, O knower of all things

born; bring them to us as one who has knowledge, O

friendly Light; for thou art the messenger, the seer, the

thinker.

5230$

npAt

-ty

yAnAn

5235mvA

sm)jvdyA

Ej4

mmAEn

5240DFEBzt

y.m

5245c

Vvr

52502. O son of the body, revealing the paths of our journeyings to

the Truth make them sweet with the Wine of Delight, O thou

with thy high tongue of flame; enriching with our thoughts

the mantras and the sacrifice set our pilgrim-sacrifice in the

gods.

5255aAj

4An

5260cA''

yAVn

sjoqA

5265v

vAnAmEs

hotA

5270s

enAn

yFEqto

yjFyAn

3. One prayed and adored, O Fire, calling them to us arrive,

5275companioned by the Shining Ones, O mighty One, thou art

the summoner of the gods, so, missioned, strong to sacrifice,

do them sacrifice.

36 Or, high-proclaimed

Other Hymns to Agni

5280AcFn

bEh

EdfA

ET yA

5285vtoryA

6yt

a>Am

5290 y

Evtr

vrFyo

5295v

aEdty

yonm

4. An ancient seat of sacred grass is plucked this morn, in the

5300direction of this earth, in front of the days, wide it spreads

beyond a supernal seat of happy ease for the gods and the

mother infinite.

ycvtFzEv

5305Ev

2ytA

pEt yo

jny

5310f

MBmAnA

vF7A

5315b

htFEv

vEmvA

5320 yo

Bvt

AyZA

5. Widely expanding may they spring apart making themselves

5325beautiful for us as wives for their lords; O divine doors, vast

and all-pervading, be easy of approach to the gods.

vytF

5330yjt

upAk

uqAsAn8tA

sdtA

5335yonO

Ed y

yoqZ

htF

5340s

aED

E2y

53455Epf

dDAn

6. Let night and day come gliding to us and queens of sac-

rifice, sit close together in their place of session, the two

divine women, great and golden, holding a supreme glory

5350of brilliant form, —

# yA

hotArA

TmA

5355s

vAcA

EmmAnA

5360qo

yjy

codytA

EvdT

5365q

kA!

AcFn

6yoEt

EdfA

5370EdftA

7. The two divine priests of the call, also, the first and perfect in

speech building the sacrifice of man that he may do worship,

doers of the work impelling to the discoveries of knowledge,

pointing by their direction to the ancient Light.

5375aA

BArtF

5380$

Ev0A

vEdh

5385c

tytF

Et*o

vFb

5390Eh

yon

srvtF

5395vps

sdt

8. May Bharati come swiftly to our sacrifice, Ila awakening

to knowledge here like a human thinker, and Saraswati, the

three goddesses, — may they sit, perfect in their works, on

5400this sacred seat of happy ease.

Mandala Ten

AvAp

5405ETvF

jEnF

#rEp

5410B

vnAEn

5415hotErEqto

yjFyAn

vArEmh

5420yE

Ev7An

9. He who fashioned in their forms this earth and heaven, the

Parents, and fashioned all the worlds, him today and here,

O missioned priest of the call, do thou worship, strong for

5425sacrifice, having the knowledge, even the divine maker of

forms.

upAvs

myA

5430sm)jn

vAnA

pAT

-t

5435TA

hvF

vnpEt

fEmtA

5440d

aEn

vdt

h y

5445mD

5450/

10. Revealing by thy self-power the goal of the gods, release

towards it in the order of the Truth our offerings. Let the

tree and the divine accomplisher of the work and the Fire

take the taste of the offering with the sweetness and the

5455light.

jAto

yEmmFt

y.mEnd

5460vAnAmBvt

rogA

hot

5465Ed

vAEc

vAhAk

5470t

hEvrdt

11. As soon as he was born Fire measured out the shape of the

5475sacrifice and became the leader who goes in front of the

gods. In the speech of this priest of the call which points

out by its direction the Truth, may the gods partake of the

oblation made sv¯ah¯a.

UPASTUTA VARSHTIHAVYA

5480SUKTA 115

iEQCfotzZy

vTo

5485yo

mAtrAvJy

DAtv

5490$

yEd

jFjndDA

5495n

mEh

5500$

crn

1. Marvellous is the power to upbear of this young, this infant

god, for he goes not to his two mothers to drink their milk,

5505even though one without teats of plenty brought him to birth

Other Hymns to Agni

then as now, from the first he did his carrying, performing

his mighty embassy.

aEnh

5510nAm

DAEy

d3ptm

5515vnA

BmnA

dtA

5520aEBm

vvr

5525ino

oTmAno

yvs

5530qA

2. Fire, verily, is established, a giver and mighty doer of works,

he clings to the trees with his blazing tusks achieving the

pilgrim-sacrifice with his besieging tongue of flame, he is

like a snorting bull, master in his pasturage.

5535t

5540qd

vmDs

oTt

5545vptmZ

aAsA

vE>

5550foEcqA

EvrEJfn

mEhv

5555srjtmvn

3. He is to you like a bird settled on a tree, like the divine moon-

flow of the Soma plant, like a clamorous spreading ocean;

he is as one who carries in his mouth of flame, exuberant

in strength, mighty in the way of his works, rushing on his

5560paths.

{ysAnyAjr

5565Don

vAtA

pEr

syQy

5570aA

r@vAso

Dyo

5575n

svn

nft

Efqt

5580iy

4. O ageless Fire, when thou rangest the spaces in thy will to

burn, there are all around thee as if unsinking winds like

joyful fighters, having the command for the seeking they

march towards the warrior of the triple world.37

5585s

idEn

k@vtm

k@vsKA'y

pryAtry

5590tzq

aEn

pAt

Zto

5595aEn

rFnEnd

dAt

5600t

qAmvo

5. This is the Fire, friend of the seer, himself the greatest of

seers, who delivers from the inner foe; may Fire guard the

5605speakers of the word, Fire the illumined seers, may he give

his protection to them and to us.

37 Or, Trita the warrior.

Mandala Ten

vAEjtmAy

5610sVs

EpWy

5615QyvAno

jAtv

5620d

Ecd

qtA

5625vr

mEhtmAy

Dvn

dEvyt

56306. O high-born, thou art he who moves swiftly in the wake

of the knower of all things born, the Fire forceful and most

full of the plenitude and even in the waterless desert for him

who is there and desires it and is full of greatness, winnest

by the violence of thy bow that which is supreme.

5635evAEnm

5640$

ErEBv

shs

5645s

nro

5650EmAso

EDtA

5655-tAyvo

Avo

#rEB

5660sEt

mAn

qAn

7. This is the Fire who is lauded accompanied by mortal il-

lumined seers, the Shining One,38 strong and glad by men,

5665they who are seekers of the Truth, and like well-established

friends, like the heavens with their lights have power on

human beings.

Ujo

npAt

5670shsAvE3Et

vopt

vdt

5675qA

vAk

toqAm

vyA

5680s

vFrA

AGFy

aAy

5685tr

dDAnA

8. “O son of energy, O forceful One,” so adores thee the

mighty speech of Upastuta, thee let us laud, by thee may

we be armed with the heroes, holding more and more an

5690ever longer life.

iEt

vAn

Eh yy

5695p

upt

tAs

-qyo'vocn

5700tA

;

pAEh

5705Zt

rFn

5710vqX

vqE0y

5715ann

nmo

5720vA

ann

9. Thus have extolled thee, O Fire, the sons of Vrishtihavya,

the Upastuta Rishis;39 protect them and the illuminates who

5725speak the word, rising on high they have attained with the

cry of “Vashat”, “Vashat”, with the cry of obeisance.

38 Or, the master of riches,

39 Or, sages, extolled;

Other Hymns to Agni

5730CHITRAMAHAS VASISHTHA

SUKTA 122

Ecmhs

5735g

ZFq

vAm

vmEtETmE7q

5740@ym

rAst

zDo

5745Ev

vDAyso'Enho

hpEt

5750s

vFy

1. I voice the Shining One with its richly varied lights,40 the fair

and happy, the guest in whom is nothing hostile; Fire, the

5755priest of the call, the master of the house gives the healing

forces that sustain the world, he gives us the hero-energy.

qAZo

5760Et

vco

5765vAEn

Ev7An

nAEn

57705to

tEnEZ

5775Z

gAt

5780d

ajny3n

57852. O Fire, take pleasure in my word, let thy joy respond to

it, for thou knowest all discoveries of knowledge, O strong

will! Robed in light, put out a path for the Word, the gods

have begotten all according to thy law of works.

5790DAmAEn

pEry3myo

dAfd

dAf

5795s

mAmhv

5800vFr

rEyZAn

vAB

5805yt

aAnV

sEmDA

5810qv

3. Encompassing the seven planes, O immortal, giving to the

giver, to the doer of good deeds, grow great;41 O Fire, with

riches full of hero-strength crowding on him, accept the man

who has come to thee with the fuel.

5815y.y

5820roEht

hEvmt

I0t

vAEjnm

5825f

@vtmEn

5830Z

5835p

vFy

58404. The seven givers of the offering pray the lord of plenitudes,

the supreme Ray of intuition, the vicar of the sacrifice, Fire,

the Bull with the luminous back who hears our words, the

god who on him who satisfies him with gifts bestows fullness

of heroic might.

584540 Or, greatnesses,

41 Or, exalt him;

Mandala Ten

5850$

Tmo

5855s

ymAno

5860tAy

5865mzto

dAf

5870vA

tom

EBB

gvo

5875zzc

5. Thou art the first and supreme messenger, as such when thou

art called be rapturous for immortality: thee the life-powers

make resplendent in the house of the giver, thee with their

lauds the flame-seers made to shine out wide.

5880iq

5885Ev

vDAys

y.Ey

yjmAnAy

58905to

E-

5895tAEn

dFd

vEt

5900pErys

6. In one to whom sacrifice is dear, for the giver of sacrifice,

5905milking the force that is a good milch-cow, the force that

founds all, O strong will, O Fire, thrice pouring light, illu-

mining the Truths, circling round our house and our sacrifice

thou puttest forth thy strength of will.

vAEmdyA

5910uqso

5915t

@vAnA

ayjt

mAn

5920qA

mhyA?yAy

5925vAv

rA6ymn

Enm

jto

5930avr

7. Thee, O Fire, making their messenger men have offered

sacrifice in the outshining of this dawn; thee the gods have

increased for their growing to greatness making bright the

oblation of light in the pilgrim-sacrifice.

5935En

vEsSA

a4t

vAEjn

5940g

Zto

EvdT

5945v

rAypoq

yjmAn

5950DAry

pAt

5955vEtEB

sdA

8. The Vasishthas called thee within them, full of plenitude,

voicing the Fire, ordainers of works in the discoverings of

5960knowledge; uphold the increasing of the riches in the doers

of the sacrifice, do you ever guard us with all kinds of weal.

Other Hymns to Agni

AGNI PAVAKA

SUKTA 140

5965an

2vo

vyo

mEh

5970B

Ajt

EvBAvso

5975b

hYAno

fvsA

vAjm

8Ly

5980dDAEs

dAf

1. O Fire, thy inspiration and thy growth and thy lights blaze

5985in their greatness, O thou who shinest out with thy lustres;

O great luminousness, O seer, thou foundest by thy strength

for the giver a plenitude of utterance.

pAvkvcA

59905vcA

nvcA

uEdyEq

5995BAn

mAtrA

6000Evcr3

pAvEs

rodsF

6005uB

2. Purifying is thy flaming energy, bright is thy energy, in-

deficient is thy energy as thou ascendest with thy light — a

son thou rangest and protectest the Parents and thou joinest

together earth and heaven.

6010Ujo

npA6jAtv

fEtEBm

6015dv

DFEtEBEh

6020s

Ervp

6025sE

cotyo

vAmjAtA

3. O son of energy, O knower of all things born, well-founded

rejoice in our perfect utterances and our thinkings; in thee

6030they have joined together impelling forces of many forms,

richly varied in their prospering, born to charm and beauty.

ir6y3n

Tyv

6035EBrm

rAyo

amy

6040ty

rAjEs

6045p

sAnEs

60504. O immortal Fire, ruling over creatures born, spread in us

thy Riches; thou art master of 42 thy body of vision and thou

satest thy conquering will.

42 Or, thou shinest out from

Mandala Ten

6055iktA

rmvry

6060rADso

rAEt

vAmy

6065BgA

mhFEmq

dDAEs

sAnEs

rEym

60705. A thinker, an arranger of sacrifice, a master of great achieve-

ment thou foundest a bounty of delight and a great and

fortunate impulsion and conquering Riches.

-tAvAn

mEhq

6075Ev

vdf

tmEn

<Ay

6080dEDr

jnA

6085sTtm

EgrA

# y

6090mAn

6. Men have set in front this great Truth-possessing and all-

6095seeing Fire for the bliss; thee who hast the ear that hears

our words voice, wide-extended, one divine throughout the

human generations.

MRIDIKA VASISHTHA

SUKTA 150

6100sEm=E

sEmys

6105 yo

h yvAhn

aAEdy

6110#v

EBn

gEh

6115m

0FkAy

gEh

61201. Already kindled thou art kindled again for the gods, O car-

rier of the offering, come along with the sons of Aditi and

with the Rudras and with the Shining Ones, come to us for

grace.

6125y.Emd

vco

qAZ

6130upAgEh

mtA

svA

sEmDAn

hvAmh

6135m

0FkAy

hvAmh

2. Accepting this sacrifice, this word come to us, we who are

mortals call thee, O high-kindled Fire, we call thee for grace.

6140vAm

jAtv

vvAr

6145g

EDyA

6150vA

;

6155Eyv

tAn

0FkAy

Eyv

6160tAn

3. Thee I voice with my thought, the knower of all things born,

Other Hymns to Agni

in whom are all desirable things, O Fire, bring to us the

gods whose law of working is dear to us, dear to us for their

6165grace.

aEnd

vAnAmBvt

6170p

roEhto'En

-qy

6175smFEDr

aEn

mho

DnsAtAvh

6180v

0Fk

DnsAty

4. Fire, the god, became the vicar priest of the gods, Fire the

6185human Rishis have kindled, Fire I call in the conquest of the

riches of the vast, gracious for the conquest of the riches.

aEnrE

Br7Aj

gEvESr

6190Av3

k@v

sdy

mAhv

aEn

6195vEsSo

hvt

roEhto

62000FkAy

roEht

5. Fire protected Atri and Bharadwaja and Gavishthira, pro-

tected for us Kanwa and Trasadasyu in the battle, Fire

6205Vasishtha the vicar priest calls, the vicar priest calls him

for grace.

KETU AGNEYA

SUKTA 156

aEn

6210Ehvt

EDy

sEPmAf

EmvAEjq

6215t

6220Dnm

1. May our thoughts speed the Fire on his way like a swift

galloper in the battles, by him may we conquer every kind

of wealth.

yyA

6225gA

aAkrAmh

nyAn

tvoyA

6230tA

Ehv

mG1y

2. The army by which we may make ours the Ray-Cows under

6235thy guard, that army send to us43 for the getting of plenty.

43 Or, speed for us

Mandala Ten

aAn

6240$

rEy

6245T

gomtmE

vnm

aER

6250K

pEZm

3. Bring to us, O Fire, a stable wealth of the Ray-Cows and

6255the horses of power, reveal heaven, turn away from us the

evil Trafficker.

nmjrmA

6260$

rohyo

EdEv

dD66yoEtj

6265n

4. O Fire, make to ascend the ageless traveller-star, the sun in

heaven upholding the Light for men.

6270k

fAmEs

6275S

upTst

boDA

vyo

6280dDt

5. O Fire, thou art the ray of intuition in creatures, most dear,

most glorious, seated in the centre.44 Awake, founding his

expansion who lauds thee.

VATSA AGNEYA

6285SUKTA 187

Any

vAcmFry

qBAy

6290EtFnAm

dEt

6295E7q

1. Send forth the word to the Fire, the bull of the worlds,45

may he carry us through beyond the hostile forces.

pryA

6300prAvtEtro

DvAEtroct

6305dEt

E7q

2. He who shines beyond the desert across the supreme Be-

yond, may he carry us through beyond the hostile forces.

44 Or, in the lap of the mother.

631045 Or, of the peoples,

Other Hymns to Agni

6315Enj

6320qA

foEcqA

6325n

dEt

E7q

3. He who destroys the Rakshasas, the bull with the brilliant

6330light, may he carry us through beyond the hostile forces.

vAEB

Evp

6335yEt

vnA

6340p

yEt

6345dEt

E7q

4. He who looks upon all the worlds and sees them wholly,

may he carry us through beyond the hostile forces.

6350ay

pAr

rjs

6355aEnrjAyt

dEt

6360E7q

5. Fire who is born brilliant on the further shore of this world,

may he carry us through beyond the hostile forces.

SAMVANANA ANGIRASA

SUKTA 191

6365s

sEmd

6370q3n

vAyy

i0pd

6375sEmys

6380yA

1. O Fire, O strong one, as master thou unitest us with all

things and art kindled high in the seat of revelation; do

thou bring to us the Riches.

6385s

gQCv

vdv

6390vo

mnA

jAntAm

6395vA

BAg

yTA

6400v

jAnAnA

upAst

2. Join together, speak one word, let your minds arrive at

6405one knowledge even as the ancient gods arriving at one

knowledge partake each of his own portion.

Mandala Ten

smAno

6410sEmEt

smAnF

smAn

6415Ec1m

qAm

smAn

mmEB

6420v

smAn

hEvqA

6425j

hoEm

3. Common Mantra have all these, a common gathering to

union, one mind common to all, they are together in one

knowledge; I pronounce for you a common Mantra, I do

6430sacrifice for you with a common offering.

smAnF

aAk

6435Et

smAnA

}dyAEn

smAnmt

6440vo

mno

yTA

6445shAsEt

4. One and common be your aspiration, united your hearts,

common to you be your mind, — so that close companion-

ship may be yours.