Canto 14Mandala Ten

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TRITA APTYA

SUKTA 1

5h3

qsAm

aTAE3j

10gvAn

tmso

6yoEtqAgAt

aEnBA

15nA

zftA

jAto

20Ev

swAyA

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

25body of brilliant lustre, filled out at his very birth all the

worlds.

jAto

gBo

30aEs

rodyorn

cAzEv

35aoqDFq

Eff

pEr

tmA

40y8t

mAt

45aED

kEn5dA

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

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

hued, thou goest forth crying aloud from the mothers

50around the nights and the darknesses.

EvZ

ErTA

prmmy

Ev7A)jAto

55b

h3EB

pAEt

tFym

60aAsA

ydy

pyo

a5t

65sc

tso

a yc

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

70in 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.

75vA

Ept

jEnFr3Av

80D

cry3

85_

nry!pA

90aEs

mAn

qFq

95hotA

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

Mandala Ten

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

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

100again, then art thou priest of the call in human beings.

hotAr

EcrTmvry

y.yy.y

105t

zftm

yED

vyd

110vy

m>A

E2yA

vEnmEtET

jnAnAm

1155. 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

of each god in might and glory.

120t

vA@yD

fnAEn

vsAno

125aEnnA

ET yA

azqo

130jAt

i0AyA

roEhto

135rAjn

yFh

vAn

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

140of the earth is born a ruddy flame, in the seat of Revelation.

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

AvAp

145ETvF

sdA

150o

mAtrA

ttT

yAVQCofto

155yEvSA'TA

shy

160vAn

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

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

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

them to us, O forceful Flame!

165SUKTA 2

EpFEh

;

170ufto

yEvS

Ev7A

;

-t

175$

180h

# yA

-Evjt

185EBrn

hot

ZAmyAyEjS

1901. 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

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

Other Hymns to Agni

195of the order of the work thou, O Fire, art the strongest for

sacrifice.

hom

200t

jnAnA

mDAtAEs

205EvZodA

-tAvA

vAhA

210ZvAmA

hvF

215d

vAn

yjvEnrh

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

220rification, 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.

225vAnAmEp

pTAmgm

yQC

vAm

tdn

230vo[h

aEnEv

7As

yjAs

235d

hotA

avrAs

-t

240$

kSpyAEt

3. 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

245knower, let him do sacrifice; he verily is the priest of the

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

of our works.

250vy

EmnAm

tAEn

Evd

255qA

aEvd

rAs

260aEnd

vmA

ZAEt

265Ev7An

EBd

;

270-t

kSpyAEt

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

O gods, we in our ignorance maiming your workings who

275know, all that may the Fire who is a knower make full by

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

pAkA

mnsA

280dFndA

y.y

mvt

myA

285s

aEn=otA

Evd

EvjAnn

290yEjSo

;

-t

295fo

yjAEt

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

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

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

300of sacrificants and does the sacrifice to the gods in the order

and times of the truth.

Mandala Ten

305qA

VvrAZAmnFk

310jEntA

jjAn

315yjv

vtFrn

pAhA

320iq

mtFEv

vjyA

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

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

325us by sacrifice in the line of the planes with their godheads,

their desirable and opulent universal forces.

AvAp

330ETvF

vApvA

335s

jEnmA

jjAn

pTAmn

Ev7An

340Ept

yAZ

mdn

sEmDAno

345BAEh

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

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

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

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

350blaze.

SUKTA 3

ino

rAj3rEt

sEm=o

355rOd

dAy

360mA

;

adEf

EcEkE7

BAEt

365BAsA

htA'Es

370zftFmpAjn

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

the terrible, he who creates perfectly right understanding,

awake to knowledge he shines wide with a vast lustre;

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

375k

nFmEB

380sA

6jnyn

yoqA

385b

Ept

390Uv

BAn

395y

tBAyn

Edvo

EBrrEtEv

400BAEt

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

the dappled dawn bringing to birth the young maiden born

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

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

4052 Or, the shining ones

Other Hymns to Agni

410yA

scmAn

aAgAt

vsAr

jAro

415a y

cAt

420k

EBrEnEv

EtSn

425zfEYv

rEB

rAmmTAt

4303. 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

beauty with his ruddy shining hues.

435yAmAso

hto

440$

EnDAnA

sHy

Efvy

445IX

450ht

vAso

BAmAso

yAm38tvE

cEk

4554. 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

have waked to knowledge.

vnA

460n

BAmAs

pvt

rocmAny

465b

Edv

470S

EBy

EjS

4755F0

mEYv

EBBA

480n

EBn

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

485in its vastness; with his greatest, most splendid and opulent

lights at play he travels to heaven.

mAso

490dd

fAnpv

hmAny

vnyn

495Eny

EByo

zfEYd

500vtmo

BEYrrEtBA

505Ev vA

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

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

shines wide-pervading with his ancient ruddy chanting fires.

510aA

mEh

515c

sEs

Edvp

ET yorrEty

vyo

520aEn

525t

EBr

530rBvYF

rBvA

;

gMyA

5357. 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

here.

Mandala Ten

540SUKTA 4

iyEm

545mm

yTA

550no

DvE3v

555aEs

vmn

iyv

560rv

rAjn

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

thou mayst manifest thyself adorable at our call; thou art

565like a fountain in the desert to longing men, O ancient king,

O Fire.

jnAso

570aEB

crEt

gAv

uZEmv

575v

yEvS

580to

vAnAmEs

myA

nAmtm

585hA

;

crEs

rocn

5902. 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

luminous world.

Eff

595n

600ytF

mAtA

EbBEt

scnymAnA

DnorED

605vtA

yAEs

E)jgFqs

610ErvAvs

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

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

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

like an animal let loose.

615m

620r

EcEkvo

mEhvmn

625vmH

Evs

vEv

crEt

630Ej4yAdn

ErVt

vEt

635Ev

pEt

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

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

640Covert he lies, he ranges devouring with his tongue of flame,

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

Ec6jAyt

645snyAs

n yo

tTO

pElto

650D

aAtApo

655v

qBo

660sc

tso

Zyt

mtA

6655. 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

he journeys to the waters and mortals who are conscious

lead him on his way.

670tn

tkrA

675vng

rfnAEBd

fEBr yDFtAm

680t

n ysF

mnFqA

685LvA

cyEYrH

690#

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

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

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

like a chariot.

695b

jAtv

700nm

705sdEmd

710t

tnyAEn

715tokA

rot

ntvo

QCn

7207. 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

of our begetting, guard undeviatingly our bodies.

SUKTA 5

725ek

DzZo

730ryFZAmm=

ErjmA

735Ev

Esq8y

DEn

740@yozpT

usy

EnEht

745v

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

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

the hidden seat of the being.

750smAn

nF0

qZo

vsAnA

755s

jEmr

mEhqA

tFEB

760-ty

kvyo

pAEt

765g

nAmAEn

dEDr

prAEZ

7702. 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.

Mandala Ten

-tAEynF

775mAEynF

dDAt

EmvA

Eff

780j.t

ytF

785vy

nAEB

crto

790kv

mnsA

795Evyt

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

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

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

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

800moving and stable and they weave by the mind the weft of

the seer.

-ty

805ny

jAtEmqo

vAjAy

Edv

810sct

aDFvAs

rodsF

vAvsAn

815t

#r3

#vA

DAt

820mD

nAm

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

sions close companion for the plenitude. Heaven and earth

825give lodging to him whose dwelling is above them,3 they

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

830rzqFvA

vfAno

Ev7An

u6jBArA

835d

aty

840atEr

rAjA

iQCn

vEv

845mEvdt

qZy

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

850their 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.

myA

855dA

kvytt

tAsAm

kAEmd y

860ro

gAt

aAyoh

kMB

upmy

865nF0

pTA

Evsg

DzZ

870tTO

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

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

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

the ways, in the upholding laws.

8753 Or, as their inhabitant,

4 Or, the seven frontiers,

Other Hymns to Agni

asQc

sQc

880prm

yomn

jm3Edt

zpT

885aEnh

TmjA

-ty

890$

aAy

895qB

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

900the 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.

SUKTA 6

905s

3voEBrn

910Dt

jErtAEBO

EByo

915BAn

EB-

920py

pErvFto

EvBAvA

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

925by his guardings the worshipper of the Fire, who encom-

passes all and is spread everywhere luminous with the largest

lights of the wise.6

BAn

930EBEv

BAvA

EvBAyEnd

EB-

935tAvAj*

EvvAy

sHyA

940sEK yo'pEr4

ayo

sEP

9452. 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

goal.

950yo

vyA

vvFt

955rFf

vAy

zqso

960O

yEmn

mnA

hvF

965ynAvErrT

k|AEt

970#

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,

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

goes unhurt and he supports all by his strengths.

9755 Or, house of refuge,

6 Or, with his largest lights for the wise.

Mandala Ten

980q

EBv

qAZo

985ak

;

990aQCA

pvA

EjgAEt

995o

hotA

1000yEjS

aEnrA

1005EjGEt

vAn

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

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

1010priest of the call strong to sacrifice with his tongue of flame;

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

*AEmd

1015r

jmAnmEn

gFEB

moEBrA

1020k

1025EvAso

mEtEBg

ZEt

jAtv

1030j

shAnAm

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

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

sages voice with their thoughts, the knower of all things

1035born, the overpowering Flame.

yEmn

1040vs

1045j

sPFvt

1050#

UtFErd

vAttmA

avA

1055cFnA

1060v

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

like horses by their gallopings in their speed towards the

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

O Fire.

1065aDA

m>A

EnqA

1070j.Ano

h yo

1075t

vAso

1080k

tmAy3DAvD

TmAs

UmA

10857. 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

and were the first and supreme helpers.

SUKTA 7

1090vEt

Edvo

1095ET yA

vAy

1100yjTAy

mEh

1105tv

#zzyA

1110Z

uzEBd

1115#

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

Other Hymns to Agni

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

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

1120guard us, O god, with thy wide utterances.

imA

mtyt

1125jAtA

goEBr

#rEB

1130ZEt

rAD

ydA

mto

1135an

BogmAnX

vso

dDAno

mEtEB

1140s

jAt

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

voice our achievement of riches with its horses of power

and herds of light when the mortal upheld by his thoughts

1145following thee attains to thy enjoyment, O Fire, perfectly

born, O shining One.

aEn

EptrmEnmAEpmEn

1150B

Atr

sdEmt

sKAym

1155rnFk

spy

EdEv

1160f

yjt

1165y

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

worshipped force of the Sun in heaven.

EsD

1170A

EDyo

1175Fy

Ays

EnyhotA

1180-tAvA

roEhd

1185z

EBrmA

ahEBvA

mmt

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

1190our 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,

may happiness be his through the shining days.

EBEh

1195t

EmEmv

yog

Evjmvry

1200jArm

bAh

yAmEnmAyvo'jnt

hotAr

1205ysAdyt

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

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

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

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

12107 Or, with his lights

Mandala Ten

yjv

EdEv

1215d

vAn

1220t

pAk

Zvdc

1225yTAyj

-t

EBd

1230vAn

yjv

1235jAt

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

immature in thought and unconscious of the knowledge do

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

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

1240so sacrifice to thy body.

BvA

'Evtot

1245gopA

BvA

vyk

1250no

vyoDA

rAvA

1255s

mho

h ydAEt

Avot

ntvo

1260ay

QCn

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

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

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

1265gods, and unfailing our bodies deliver.

TRISHIRAS TWASHTRA

SUKTA 8

1270nA

htA

yAyEnrA

rodsF

1275v

qBo

rorvFEt

EdvE

cdtA

1280;

upmA

;

udAn0pAm

1285mEhqo

vvD

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

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

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

1290of the waters.

mod

gBo

1295qB

wAn*

1300EfmFvA

;

arAvFt

1305vtAy

tAEn

@vv

1310y

Tmo

EjgAEt

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

1315child worker rejoiced and shouted aloud; in the formation

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

his own abodes.

8 Or, the humped-Bull,

Other Hymns to Agni

1320aA

1325n

EporrND

yvr

dEDr

1330$

pm3zqFr

1335vb

-ty

yonO

tvo

1340j

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

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

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

1345Horse of Power and they accept embodiment in the native

seat of the Truth.

uquqo

vso

1350ag

ymyorBvo

1355EvBAvA

-tAy

dEDq

pdAEn

1360jnyn

vAy

13654. 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

own body.

1370v

-ty

1375gopA

vzZo

1380tAy

1385apA

npA6jAtv

1390d

h y

1395j

joq

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

neyest to the Truth thou becomest Varuna, its guardian;

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

1400things born, thou becomest the messenger of the man in

whose offering thou hast taken pleasure.

y.y

1405rjs

1410Eny

scs

EfvAEB

EdEv

1415m

dEDq

1420vqA

Ej4Amn

h yvAhm

14256. 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-

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

carrier of our offerings.

1430Mandala Ten

1435vv

atErQCn

DFEt

Ept

1440v

pry

scymAn

EpozpT

1445jAEm

vAZ

aAy

DAEn

1450v

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

the thinking of the supreme Father, cherished in the lap

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

1455seeks his weapons.

EpWyA@yAy

DAEn

Ev7AEnd

1460Eqt

aAyo

a yy

EfFqA

1465Z

sPrE

jGvAn

1470y

EcE3

Eto

1475gA

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

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

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

son of Twashtri the form-maker.

1480B

rFEdd

uEdntmojo'vAEBnt

spEtm

1485ymAnm

EcE7

v!py

1490gonAmAc5AZFEZ

fFqA

prA

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

1495itating 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.

HAVIRDHANA ANGI

SUKTA 11

1500v

1505d

dohsA

Edv

pyA

1510Es

y4o

aEdt

rdA y

1515v

vzZo

1520yTA

EDyA

yE.yo

yjt

1525yE.yA

;

-t

15301. 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

perform the order of the rites of the sacrifice.

Other Hymns to Agni

1535rpd

gDvF

rJyA

yoqZA

1540ndy

nAd

pEr

pAt

1545mn

aEdEtEn

DAt

1550no

AtA

1555S

Tmo

vocEt

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

1560the 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

declares it to me.

1565Ec3

mtF

yfvy

1570qA

uvAs

mnv

1575ydFm

ftm

ftAmn

mEn

1580hotAr

EvdTAy

jFjnn

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

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

1585birth to this Fire, an aspirant doing the will of the aspirants

for the discovery of knowledge.

1590Js

Ev v

EvcZ

EvrABrEdEqt

1595no

avr

ydF

Evfo

1600Zt

dmmAyA

aEn

hotArmD

DFrjAyt

16054. 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

of the call, then the thought was born.

sdAEs

1610r@vo

yvs

1615hoAEBrn

vvr

Evy

1620vA

yQCfmAn

u8Ly

vAj

ssvA

1625;

upyAEs

ErEB

16305. 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

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

conquered, thou comest with thy multitude.

16359 Or, the eldest

Mandala Ten

udFry

EptrA

jAr

1640aA

BgEmyEt

1645iyEt

EvvE8t

vE>

vpyt

mKtEvyt

1650as

mtF

16556. 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

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

illumined by the Thought.

1660yt

mEt

mto

1665at

shs

1670aEt

1675dDAno

vhmAno

#rA

1680s

;

amvAn

1685$

qEt

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

1690thinking 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.

ydn

eqA

1695sEmEtB

vAEt

1700v

yjtA

r&A

1705c

EvBjAEs

vDAvo

BAg

1710no

vFtAt

17158. 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

portion bring to us.

1720no

sdn

sDT

1725LvA

rTmm

Ev&

1730m

rodsF

1735d

mAEkd

vAnAmp

1740$

Erh

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

1745and earth, parents of the gods; let none of the gods be away

from us and mayst thou be here.

Other Hymns to Agni

SUKTA 12

AvA

1750h

AmA

-t

nA'EB2Av

1755Bvt

syvAcA

ymtA

1760n

yjTAy

@vsFd=otA

1765vms

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

come possessed of the true speech when the god fashioning

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

1770the call and turned towards its own force moves towards it.

vAn

1775pErB

1780vhA

h y

TmE

cEkvAn

1785D

sEmDA

1790BA-jFko

hotA

Enyo

1795vAcA

yjFyAn

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

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

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

1800the rapturous eternal priest of the call strong by speech for

the sacrifice.

vAv

vyAm

1805t

ydF

gorto

jAtAso

DAryt

1810uvF

1815an

1820d

Ed y

1825G

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

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

1830wide 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.

acA

1835vA

vDA

yApo

1840$

AvAB

1845Z

rodsF

ahA

1850yd

Avo's

nFEtmyn

mvA

1855a

EptrA

EffFtAm

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

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

1860ments 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.

10 Or, sacrificial word

Mandala Ten

1865Ek

Ev3o

rAjA

1870kdyA'Et

1875ko

EmE

1880cE=

rAZo

1885d

vA)C

loko

yAtAmEp

1890vAjo

aEt

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

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

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

1895to us as we go, there is upon us a plenitude.

vAm

1900nAm

slLmA

Evq

!pA

1905BvAEt

ymy

mnvt

1910mvn

pAVy

QCn

19156. 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

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

One, undeviatingly protect.

1920yEmn

EvdT

mAdyt

1925Evvvt

sdn

DAryt

1930y

6yoEtrdD

y8t

1935n

pEr

otEn

crto

aj*A

19407. 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

unceasingly around its illumination.

yEmn

1945d

mmEn

crypFQy

1950n

vymy

Evw

Emo

1955aAEdEtrnAgAsEvtA

vzZAy

voct

19608. 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

to Varuna.

Other Hymns to Agni

1965DF

sdn

sDT

1970y

LvA

rTmm

1975Ev&

1980rodsF

mAEkd

vAnAmp

1985B

Erh

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

1990yoke 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.

VIMADA AINDRA OR PRAJAPATYA

OR VASUKRIT VASUKRA

1995SUKTA 20

aEp

vAty

2000mn

1. Bring to us a happy mind.

aEnmF0

2005yEvS

fAsA

2010rFt

2015nF

spy

mAt

20202. 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.

ymAsA

2025pnF0

BAsAk

yEt

2030B

Ajt

EZdn

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

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

2035his row of flaming tusks.

ayo

EvfA

gAt

2040Et

ydAnX

Edvo

atAn

kEvrB

2045dFAn

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

11 Or, the cloud.

Mandala Ten

2050j

q= yA

mAn

qyov

tTAv

2055 vA

Emvsw

2060eEt

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

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

our home.

2065Eh

hEvy

Fdy

2070gAt

aEn

2075vA

vAfFmtm

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

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

with its adze.

2080y.AsAh

'En

2085p

2090vy

2095mAy

mAh

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

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

the stone.13

2100nro

cAmdA

2105v

vAm

2110y

aEn

hEvqA

21158. Whatever men are with us may they in all ways abide in

happiness making the Fire to grow by the offerings.

2120to'zqo

yAmo

2125ut

foZo

yfvAn

Ehr@y!p

jEntA

2130jjAn

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

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

father brought into being.

12 Or, the work that brings the supreme bliss;

213513 Or, of the Rock, or the Peak.

Other Hymns to Agni

evA

2140Evmdo

mnFqAm

npAdm

2145t

sjoqA

Egr

2150vt

mtFEryAn

iqm

2155j

EEt

vmABA

2160/

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

of energy, companioning the immortals, coming to us thou

bearest thy words and thy right thinkings, thou bringest

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

2165SUKTA 21

aAEn

E8tEBho

2170tAr

ZFmh

y.Ay

2175tFZ

bEh

2180md

fFr

pAvkfoEcq

Evvs

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

2185of 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.

vAm

2190vAB

MBy

vrADs

2195v

vAm

cnF

2200Ev

-jFEtrn

aAh

2205EtEv

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

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

intoxication of your rapture — direct, carrying the oblation,

2210O Fire — and thou growest to greatness.

DmA

aAst

2215j

Es)ctFErv

2220k

!pA@yj

2225vo

aED

2230E2yo

EDq

Evvs

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

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

2235tion 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

thee his words and his right thinkings, brings etc.

Mandala Ten

2240ymn

mys

rEy

shsAv3my

tmA

2245no

vAjsAty

2250y.

EcmA

BrA

Evvs

22554. 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

lights in the sacrifices — and thou growest to greatness.

aEnjA

2260to

aTv

Evdd

2265vAEn

kA yA

2270$

Evvvto

2275md

Eyo

ymy

kAMyo

Evvs

22805. 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

the law — and thou growest to greatness.

2285y.

vF0t

yyvr

2290vs

kAMyA

2295vo

dDAEs

2300dAf

Evvs

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

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

2305intoxication of your rapture — thou foundest for the giver

— and thou growest to greatness.

2310Evj

cAzmn

Edr

2315G

ttFk

2320vo

EtSmEBEv

2325vs

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

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

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

knowledge — and thou growest to greatness.

2330an

foEcqoz

Tys

2335b

aEB5dn

qAys

2340Ev

dDAEs

2345jAEmq

Evvs

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

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

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

2350Other Hymns to Agni

the sisters — and thou growest to greatness.

VATSAPRI BHALANDANA

SUKTA 45

EdvpEr

2355Tm

aEnrmd

E7tFy

pEr

2360jAtv

tFymJs

2365mZA

aj*EmDAn

jrt

vADF

23701. 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

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

EvwA

2375t

yAEZ

EvwA

2380t

DAm

EvB

2385zA

EvwA

nAm

prm

2390g

EvwA

2395s

aAjgT

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

borne widely in many planes, we know thy supreme Name

2400which is in the secrecy, we know that fount of things whence

thou camest.

2405n

mZA

aJvtn

2410Edvo

UDn

tFy

2415vA

rjEs

tETvA

smpAm

2420mEhqA

avD

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

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

2425teat of heaven; the mighty ones made thee to grow where

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

a5ddEn

tnyE3v

2430AmA

Erhd

vFzD

sm)jn

2435so

j.Ano

hFEm=o

aHydA

2440rodsF

BAn

BAyt

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

2445revealing its growths: when kindled and born, at once he

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

earth and heaven.

Mandala Ten

2FZAm

2450dAro

DzZo

ryFZA

mnFqAZA

2455Z

somgopA

2460n

shso

aJs

rAjA

2465BAyg

uqsAEmDAn

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

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

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

2470luminous as he burns up in the front of the dawns.

2475B

vny

rodsF

2480ap

ZA6jAymAn

vF0

EcdEd

mEBnt

2485prAy)jnA

ydEnmyjt

p)c

6. 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;

2490going beyond them he rent even the strong mountain when

the peoples of the five births sacrificed to the Fire.

uEfk

pAvko

arEt

2495s

vEnrm

2500to

DAEy

iyEt

2505$

mmzq

BErB

2510Z

foEcqA

AEmnn

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

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

2515he sends forth and carries a ruddy smoke striving with his

bright flame of light to reach heaven.

fAno

2520uEv

yOd

2525q

mAy

E2y

zcAn

aEnrm

2530to

aBvd

vyoEBy

2535Oj

nyt

25408. 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

brought him to birth.

2545a

Zvd

foc

2550'p

2555G

tvtmn

2560vyo

aQCA'EB

2565vB8t

yEvS

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

thee the luminous honeycomb15 him lead forward towards

15 Or, the cake of light

2570Other Hymns to Agni

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

enjoyed by the gods.

2575Bj

sO2vs

u8Tu8T

2580Bj

fymAn

2585y

Eyo

anA

BvAy

6jAt

2590n

EBndd

6jEnv

259510. 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

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

vAmn

2600yjmAnA

2605vA

dEDr

vAyA

2610vyA

EvZEmQCmAnA

2615j

gomtm

Efjo

262011. 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

of the Ray-Cows.

atA yEnn

2625rA

2630#

vAnr

-EqEB

somgopA

2635q

AvAp

ETvF

2640m

rEymm

2645s

vFrm

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

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

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

2650from hostile powers; found in us, O gods, a wealth full of

hero-mights.

SUKTA 46

hotA

jAto

2655mhAn

nBoEv3

q7A

sFddpAm

2660dEDyo

DAEy

vyA

2665Es

ytA

2670EvDt

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

2675heavens, 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

riches and is the protector of thy body.

Mandala Ten

2680im

EvDto

apA

sDT

2685n

#rn

2690g

cttm

Efjo

nmoEBErQCto

2695DFrA

gvo'Evdn

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

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

2700where he hid in the secret cavern, aspiring with obeisance

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

Eto

2705$

EvdEdQCn

2710$

vso

2715yyAyA

2720jAt

hMy

nAEBy

2725vA

BvEt

rocny

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

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

2730the youth who increases the felicity in our mansions and

becomes the navel-centre of the luminous world.

hotArm

Efjo

2735nmoEB

A)c

tArmvrAZAm

2740EvfAmk

@v3rEt

pAvk

h yvAh

dDto

2745mAn

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

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

2750cer ever-moving forward, the leader of the pilgrim-sacrifices,

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

2755yt

mhA

EvpoDA

2760rA

2765rA

dmA

nyto

2770vnA

EDy

2775m2

nAvA

Dnc

27805. 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

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

the illumined word17 — they established the thought.

278516 Trita the triple born from the All-pervading Substance.

17 Or, the illumination

Other Hymns to Agni

pyAs

2790Et

pErvFto

2795yonO

sFddt

2800 yA

EvfA

2805EvDm

ZAy

#rFyt

2810n

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

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

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

law of his action, by unrestrained movements he journeys

2815to the gods.

ayAjrAso

dmAmErA

2820D

mAso

any

pAvkA

2825E

vtFcy

vAAso

r@yvo

2830vnq

vAyvo

somA

28357. 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

and like winds and like wine.

Ej4yA

2840Brt

aEn

2845nAEn

tsA

ET yA

2850tmAyv

cyt

pAvk

2855hotAr

dEDr

yEjSm

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

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

2860edge; him men hold the illuminating and purifying rapturous

priest of the call most strong for sacrifice.

AvA

ymEn

2865ETvF

jEnAmApvA

gvo

2870shoEB

mAtEr

2875vA

vAtt

2880yjm

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

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

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

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

2885sacrifice.

18 Or, setting himself firmly

Mandala Ten

2890d

dEDr

h yvAh

2895zp

mAn

qAso

yjm

2900s

yAm3n

vyo

2905DA

vyn

yfs

2910Eh

291510. 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

expansion for him who lauds thee and making him divine

gather in him many glorious things.

2920DEVAS AND AGNI SAUCHIKA

SUKTA 51

mht

2925TEvr

tdAsF

nAEvEt

Evv

EfTAp

2930Ev

2935DA

jAtv

dtvo

2940d

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

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

2945god who saw thee but many and manifold were thy bodies

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

ddf

2950ktm

2955m

tvo

2960p

8vAh

EmAvzZA

Eyyn

2965Ev

sEmDo

vyAnF

29702. 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?

QCAm

2975vA

jAtv

2980Evmn

aJvoqDFq

ymo

2985aEck

EQcBAno

dfAtzyAdEtrocmAnm

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

thou hast entered manifoldly into the growths of the earth

2990and 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.

Other Hymns to Agni

hoAdh

2995vzZ

Eb ydAy

3000mA

nj3

3005ty

tvo

3010EnEvA

etmT

Eck

tAhmEn

30154. 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

the movement.

eEh

3020mn

.kAmo'r

3025k

tmEs

3030gAn

3035d

vyAnAn

h yAEn

3040mnymAn

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

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

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

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

3045an

3050Atro

rTFvAvAnmvAvrFv

3055tmAd

EByA

vzZ

3060rmAy

gOro

JnorEvj

6yAyA

30656. 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

of the archer.

3070m

aAy

rjr

ydn

3075yTA

8to

jAtv

3080n

EryA

aTA

vhAEs

3085mnymAno

BAg

3090hEvq

jAt

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

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

3095to harm, then with thy mind at ease thou canst carry their

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

yAjAn

3100yAjA

;

vlAn

3105$

hEvqo

3110BAgm

cApA

3115zq

cOqDFnAmn

dFG

mAy

3120rt

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

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

3125the light from the waters and the soul from the plants and

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

Mandala Ten

yAjA

3130an

yAjA

3135Uj

vto

hEvq

BAgA

3140tvAn

y.o'ymt

3145nmtA

Edf

ct*

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

sacrifice, the portions packed with energy of the oblation;

3150thine, O Fire, be all this sacrifice; may the four regions bow

down to thee.

SUMITRA VADHRYASHWA

SUKTA 69

3155A

3160s

vAmF

ZFEt

3165s

rZA

ydF

3170s

EmA

Evfo

iDt

3175G

nAh

jrt

3180dEv

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

surable his guidance, delightful his approaches; when the

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

3185oblations of the Light he flames up for his worshipper.

tmn

3190vy

tm3

3195G

tMvy

dnm

3200t

nAh

uEv

3205Ev

3210iv

roct

sEp

rAs

32152. 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

is poured on him its running stream.

3220t

dnFk

3225Em

smFD

tEdd

nvFy

3230s

vQCoc

Egro

3235j

vAj

dEq

3240s

2vo

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

3245one, 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.

Other Hymns to Agni

3250vA

mFE0to

3255vy

smFD

3260id

3265EtpA

BvA

3270pA

yEdd

3275am

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

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

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

erections and the protector of our bodies, guard this giving

3280of thine which is here in us.

BvA

vAy

vot

3285gopA

tArFdEBmAEtj

nAnAm

3290f

3295Z

Qyvn

3300voc

vAy

nAm

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

3305tector, 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.

sm{

3310pv

3315dAsA

A@yAyA

Ejg

3320f

3325Z

Qyvno

jnAnA

vmn

3330tnAy

;rEB

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

3335of 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.

dFG

3340b

AymEn

sh*trF

ftnFT

3345- vA

mAn

EBm

33506ymAn

dFdyo

3355d

vys

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

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

luminous in men luminous, made bright by the hands of

3360men, 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

symbolic meaning in the names.

Mandala Ten

3365v

3370GA

jAtv

do's

3375smnA

sbD

3380EBd

EZAvEYrn

EBErys

3385d

vyEY

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

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

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

3390judgment, strivers after godhead, the friendly people.

vAE

3395am

jAtv

mEhmAn

3400vAy

vocn

3405p

mAn

qFEv

3410aAyn

EBrjyvAv

3415EB

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

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

sought by questioning, coming to the human peoples, thou

hast conquered by men who grow by thee.20

3420Ept

mEbBzpT

vAmn

3425vy

spy

3430qAZo

sEmD

yEvSot

3435$

nvnov

DtE

3440ct

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

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

accepting his fuel thou didst conquer even the supreme and

3445mighty.

vdEnv

3450f

EBEj

3455gAy

tsomvEY

smn

EcddhE

3460cBAno'v

ADtmEBnd

3465ct

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

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

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

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

3470him increase.

aymEnv

3475hA

snkAt

nmsopvA

3480no

ajAmF

;zt

EvjAmFnEB

3485EtS

vAy

349012. 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

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

assail those who attack him, both the uncompanioned and

3495the one with many companions, O Fire of the gelded Horse.

SUKTA 70

imA

3500sEmD

0pd

3505hyA

tAcFm

3510p

ET yA

Ednv

a>Am

3515$

5to

3520d

vy6yA

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

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

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

3525worship of sacrifice to the gods, O strong of will!

vAnAmg

yAv

3530h

yAt

nrAf

3535v!p

EBr

-ty

3540pTA

nmsA

Emy

3545v

vtm

3550q

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

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

3555and most divine, may he hasten with our obeisance on the

path of the Truth to the gods.

v1mmF0t

3560$

yAy

hEvmto

yAso

3565aEnm

vEhS

3570s

nA''

3575d

vAn

3580h

hotA

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

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

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

3585thy seat as the priest of the call.

TtA

3590Etr

dFG

AmA

3595s

rEB

3600ah

0tA

mnsA

3605bEh

Erd

;

3610ufto

vAn

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

3615all 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.

Mandala Ten

Edvo

3620vA

sAn

ftA

vrFy

3625p

ET yA

mAyA

36302yvm

uftF7A

mEhnA

mhEYd

3635v

rTy

ryvm

36405. 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

the great the divine car.

3645vF

Edvo

EhtrA

3650EfSp

uqAsAn8tA

sdtA

yonO

3655aA

vAs

uftF

3660uft

urO

sFdt

3665upT

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

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

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

lap, O blissful ones.

3670Uvo

AvA

hdEn

3675sEm=

EyA

DAmAyEdt

zpT

3680roEhtAv

EvjA

aEmn

Evd

3685rA

EvZmA

TAm

36907. 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

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

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

3695Treasure.

Et*o

vFb

3700Erd

vrFy

sFdt

3705mA

yonm

3710y.

EDtA

hvF

qF0A

3715d

tpdF

3720qt

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

made delightful for you; may the mother of Revelation and

the two goddesses with the luminous feet accept our firmly

placed offerings and our human worship of sacrifice.

3725d

cAzvmAnX

3730ydEHrsAmBv

scAB

3735vAnA

pAT

Ev7An

3740yE

EvZod

37459. 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

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

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

3750in ecstasy, sacrifice to the gods, O giver of the treasure.

vnpt

rfnyA

Eny

3755yA

vAnA

pAT

3760vE

Ev7An

vdAEt

3765k

Zv=vF

yvtA

AvAp

ETvF

3770hv

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

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

3775fashion the offerings in which he takes pleasure: may heaven

and earth protect our call.

aAn

vzZEmy

3780n

Edvo

mzto

atErAt

3785sFdt

bEh

3790yjA

vAhA

3795tA

mAdytAm

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

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

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

3800the sv¯ah¯a.

AGNI SAUCHIKA OR VAISHWANARA

OR SAPTI VAJAMBHARA

SUKTA 79

3805ymy

mhto

mEhvmmy

myA

3810s

nAnA

3815EvB

3820aEsvtF

bJstF

38251. 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,

insatiable.

Mandala Ten

3830g

Efro

EnEhtm

DgF

3835aEsv3E1

Ej4yA

vnAEn

aA@ym

3840pEX

Bry

1AnhtA

3845nmsAED

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

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

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

3850their hands of obeisance are outstretched in the peoples.

mAt

VEmQCn

3855k

mAro

vFzD

3860d

p8vmEvdQC

3865ct

ErEr4A

Erp

upT

3870at

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

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

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

her lap.

3875t7Am

rodsF

vFEm

3880jAymAno

mAtrA

gBo

aE1

nAh

3885d

3890tA'EnrH

Evc

3895tA

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

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

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

the all-conscious knower and he is the thinker.

3900yo

amA

vAdDAyA6y

3905#G

hoEt

3910yEt

sh*mEBEv

3915'n

yEs

39205. 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.

3925v

ckTA

3930'n

QCAEm

vAmEv7An

3935a5F0n

5F0n

hErr1v

'dn

3940pv

ckt

gAEmvAEs

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

3945thee, 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.

Other Hymns to Agni

Evq

3950$

vAn

3955y

-jFEtBF

3960rfnAEBg

BFtAn

Emo

3965EB

jAt

smAn

3970pv

EBvA

DAn

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

3975all 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.

SUKTA 80

aEn

3980sEP

vAj

ddAyEnvF

3985y

EnSAm

anF

rodsF

3990Ev

crt

sm)j3EnnA

vFrk

3995E

EDm

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

4000gives 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

from whose womb is born the hero.

4005rJns

sEmdt

A'Enm

4010rodsF

Evv

aEnr

4015k

codyt

smvEnv

AEZ

dyt

4020p

!EZ

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

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

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

4025the enemy.

aEnh

jrt

4030mAvA'Enrd

Enrdh6j!Tm

aEnrE

4035uzydtrEnn

jyAs

4040sm

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

out the Waster24 from the waters; Fire delivered Atri within

21 Or, the many-thoughted,

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

404523 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”.

Mandala Ten

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

4050aEndA

EvZ

vFrp

4055fA

aEn-

sh*A

4060snoEt

aEnEd

h ymA

ttAnA'n

4065DA

mAEn

EvB

4070zA

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

the offering in heaven, his are the planes upheld separately

in many spaces.

4075aEnm

qyo

40804yt

'En

nro

yAmEn

bAEDtAs

4085aEn

vyo

atEr

ptto'En

sh*A

4090pEr

yAEt

gonAm

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

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

4095Birds flying in mid-air; Fire encircles the thousands of the

Ray-Cows.

aEn

Evf

I0t

4100mAn

qFyA

aEn

4105nh

jAtA

aEngA

4110DvF

pLyAm

tyA'n

4115$

EtG

Enq1A

41206. 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

settled in the Light.

any

4125b

-Bvtt

rEn

mhAmvocAmA

4130v

E8tm

jErtAr

4135yEvSA'n

mEh

EvZmA

yjv

41407. 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

him by sacrifice the great Treasure.

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

414526 Sayana renders “gave progeny to the Rishi Nrimedha”.

Other Hymns to Agni

PAYU BHARADWAJA

SUKTA 87

rohZ

4150vAEjnmA

EjGEm

ETSm

4155yAEm

EffAno

aEn

4160EB

sEm=

EdvA

4165s

Erq

pAt

n8tm

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

4170I 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

day and by the night.

ayod

4175o

aEc

yAt

DAnAn

4180p

jAtv

4185sEm=

Ej4yA

4190rd

vAn

rBv

5 yAdo

41958 yEp

DvAsn

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

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

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

4200flesh, putting them off from us shut them into thy mouth.

uBoByAEv3

4205d

EffAno'vr

4210pr

utAtEr

pEr

yAEh

4215rAj)jMB

VEB

4220yAt

DAnAn

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

higher 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

4225the demon-sorcerers.

#Erq

4230nmmAno

vAcA

fSyA

;

4235afEnEBEd

hAn

tAEBEv

}dy

4240yAt

DAnAn

tFco

bAh

4245n

qAm

42504. Turning on them by our sacrifices thy arrows, O Fire, by our

27 Or, a widest peace;

28 Or, the gods of ignorance,

29 Or, O thou who hast both,

Mandala Ten

4255speech thy javelins, plastering them with thy thunderbolts

pierce with these in their hearts the demon-sorcerers who

confront us, break their arms.

4260yAt

DAny

EBED

*AfEnh

4265rsA

pvA

4270jAtv

ZFEh

5 yAt

42755EvZ

Ecnot

8Zm

42805. 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

pick asunder his mangled body.

4285dAnF

yEs

jAtv

dEtStmn

4290ut

crtm

vAtEr

4295pETEB

ptt

tmtA

Evy

fvA

4300EffAn

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

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

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

thy arrow.

4305utAlND

jAtv

4310d

aAl

BAnAd

EEByA

4315DAnAt

4320En

jEh

fof

cAn

aAmAd

4325ELvAtmdv

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

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

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

4330flesh; let the brilliant birds of prey eat him up.

4335ytm

yAt

4340DAno

ZoEt

4345tmA

rBv

sEmDA

yEvS

4350cs

rDy

#nm

43558. 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

vision.

Other Hymns to Agni

4360tFLZ

nAn

4365y.

A)c

4370c

4375yEB

fof

cAn

4380dBn

yAt

DAnA

43859. 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

Rakshasas let not the demon-sorcerers overcome thee.

4390cA

pEr

4395Ev

FEZ

4400ZFVg

tyAn

4405rsA

ZFEh

4410$

yAt

DAny

4415c

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

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

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

4420sorcerer.

EyA

DAn

EsEt

4425t

4430an

hEt

tmEc

4435qA

y)jAtv

4440d

smm

4445En

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

4450slays the Truth by falsehood; him overspreading with thy

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

who hymns thee.

tdn

4455Et

4460fPAzj

yEs

4465yAt

DAnm

aTv

v66yoEtqA

4470# y

4475v

tmEct

yoq

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

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

4480Atharvan, burn with the divine Light this being without

knowledge who does hurt to the Truth.

ydn

EmT

4485nA

fpAto

vAct

jnyt

4490r

myom

fr yA

4495jAyt

tyA

Evy

}dy

4500yAt

DAnAn

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

curses which are born in the imprecations of the singers,

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

4505pierce through the heart the demon-sorcerers.

Mandala Ten

prA

ZFEh

4510tpsA

yAt

DAnAn

prAn

4515hrsA

ZFEh

prAEc

4520m

vA)C

ZFEh

4525prAs

aEB

fof

4530cAn

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

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

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

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

4535themselves with men’s lives.

prA

4540Ejn

4545fpTA

vAcAt

4550n

frv

-QCt

4555Ev

EsEt

yAt

4560DAn

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

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

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

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

4565y

pOzq

5EvqA

4570smR

4575n

yAt

DAn

4580yo

ayAyA

BrEt

Frmn

4585qA

fFqA

hrsAEp

4590c

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

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

milk of the Cow unslayable, cut asunder their necks with

the flame of thy anger, O Fire.

4595s

vsrFZ

uE*yAyAty

mAfFd

4600yAt

DAno

pFy

4605$

qmn

ytmEtt

JsAt

4610y)cmEc

Evy

461517. 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

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

Evq

4620gvA

yAt

DAnA

EpbvA

4625QytAmEdty

4630#nAn

sEvtA

ddAt

4635prA

BAgmoqDFnA

jytAm

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

30 Or, the gods of ignorance,

4640Other 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,

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

snAdn

4645m

ZEs

yAt

DAnAn

4650vA

tnAs

4655Ejy

shm

4660rAn

5 yAdo

4665yA

# yAyA

467019. 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

no release from thy divine missile.

4675no

aDrAd

d8tAt

4680p

cAd

4685rtAt

ajrAstEpSA

4690aGf

fof

cto

dht

4695/

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

from behind and from the front; may those most burning

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

evil.

4700p

cAt

rtAdDrAd

d8tAt

4705kEv

kA y

pEr

pAEh

4710rAjn

sKAymjro

jErMZ

4715mtA

nmy

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

4720a 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.

pEr

vAn

4725p

shy

4730DFmEh

q7Z

Edv

4735htAr

rAvtAm

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

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

4740day of the crooked ones.

Mandala Ten

Evq

4745rAvt

rso

4750an

Etm

foEcqA

4755rg

AEB-

EEB

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

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

4760yn

EmT

yAt

4765DAnA

EkmFEdnA

EffAEm

4770jAg

VdND

mmEB

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

4775ness, inviolate, with my thoughts, O illumined sage; awake.

hrsA

4780ZFEh

yAt

4785DAny

rso

4790vFy

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

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

Rakshasa, of the demon-sorcerer.

4795ARUNA VAITAHAVYA

SUKTA 91

jAg

vEYj

4800rmAZ

iyt

4805nA

iqyE30pd

hotA

4810hEvqo

@yo

EvB

4815BAvA

qKA

sKFyt

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

4820is 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

friendship.

31 Or, one desirable,

4825Other Hymns to Agni

t2FrEtETg

4830g

EfE2y

4835t8vvFErv

jyo

nAEt

4840myt

Evf

4845yo

Evf

Evfm

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

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

4850universal he dwells in being and being, common to all he

dwells in man and man.

4855#

nAEs

4860rn

kEv

kA y

nAEs

4865vEvt

4870nA

yEs

4875AvA

yAEn

ETvF

4880c

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

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

4885wisdoms; a possessor of riches thou rulest sole over all the

riches nourished by earth and by heaven.

jAn3n

yoEnm

4890EvyEm0AyApd

tvtmAsd

4895EcEk

uqsAEmv

tyo'r

4900$

4905my

4. Thou hast known and reached thy luminous native seat

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

from stain of evil have come thy perceptions of knowledge

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

4910tv

E2yo

4915Ev

cAE

cEk

uqsA

4920n

ydoqDFrEBs

4925vnAEn

pEr

Ecn

4930q

a3mAy

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

light of knowledge brilliant like the rays of intuition of the

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

4935pleasance thou seekest out thyself the food for thy mouth.33

tmoqDFd

EDr

4940Evy

tmApo

aEn

jnyt

mAtr

4945tEmt

smAn

vEnn

vFzDo'tv

4950tF

4955Ev

vhA

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

32 Or, like the advents of the dawns,

33 Or, heapest food in thy mouth.

4960Mandala Ten

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

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

child with whom the pleasance-woods and the plants of

earth are pregnant and they are delivered of him always.

4965vAtopD

iEqto

vfA

4970;

yd3A

4975v

Evqd

EvEtSs

4980ytt

rLyo

yTA

4985fDA

ajrAEZ

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

4990thy food thou spreadest wide after thy desire, thy ageless

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

DAkAr

EvdTy

4995sADnmEn

hotAr

pErB

5000mEtm

tEmdB

hEvyA

smAnEmt

tEmmh

5005v

nAy

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

5010covery 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.

vAEmd

5015Zt

vAyvo

hotArmn

EvdT

5020v

vyto

5025dDEt

hEvmto

5030mnvo

8tbEh

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

5035thee 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

seat and have brought their offerings.

tvAn

5040ho

pom

Evy

5045n

vmEnd

tAyt

5050vmvrFyEs

cAEs

5055hpEt

506010. 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

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

Other Hymns to Agni

5065annunciation is thine, thou becomest the pilgrim-rite:35 thou

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

home.

ymn

5070am

tAy

sEmDA

dAfd

5075t

hEvk

5080hotA

BvEs

yAEs

5085ym

5090yjyvrFyEs

11. [Not translated.]

imA

5095mtyo

vAco

amdA

;

-co

5100Egr

smmt

5105$

yvo

vsv

jAtv

5110v

=As

Ecd

5115yAs

cAknt

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

these words high and hymns of illumination and these high

lauds and meet together seeking the riches for the master of

5120riches, for the knower of all things born, and his desire is

towards them.

imA

&Ay

5125Et

nvFysF

voc

ymmA

uft

5130f

Zot

5135yA

atrA

Enp

5140jAy

uftF

5145vAsA

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

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

yEm3

5150vAs

-qBAs

uZo

vfA

5155qA

avs

aAh

5160kFlAlp

somp

SAy

5165}dA

mEt

jny

cAzmny

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

5170and 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.

ahA yn

hEvrAy

5175t

cFv

5180cMvFv

som

vAjsEn

rEymm

5185vFr

yfs

5190b

htm

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

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

Mandala Ten

5195clarified 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

and vast.

JAMADAGNI BHARGAVA

5200OR RAMA JAMADAGNYA

SUKTA 110

sEm=o

5205qo

roZ

5210d

vAn

yjEs

jAtv

5215aA

EmmhE

cEkvAn

5220v

kEvrEs

5225c

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

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

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

5230friendly Light; for thou art the messenger, the seer, the

thinker.

npAt

5235pT

-ty

yAnAn

mvA

sm)jvdyA

5240s

Ej4

mmAEn

DFEBzt

y.m

5245Dn

5250Z

Vvr

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

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

5255with thy high tongue of flame; enriching with our thoughts

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

gods.

aAj

4An

5260IX

cA''

yAVn

5265vs

sjoqA

5270vAnAmEs

hotA

enAn

5275yFEqto

yjFyAn

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

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

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

5280do them sacrifice.

36 Or, high-proclaimed

Other Hymns to Agni

AcFn

bEh

5285EdfA

ET yA

vtoryA

52906yt

a>Am

5295Evtr

vrFyo

5300aEdty

yonm

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

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

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

5305mother infinite.

ycvtFzEv

2ytA

5310pEt yo

jny

MBmAnA

5315d

vF7A

htFEv

5320vEmvA

Bvt

5325s

AyZA

5. Widely expanding may they spring apart making themselves

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

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

5330aA

vytF

yjt

upAk

5335uqAsAn8tA

sdtA

yonO

Ed y

5340yoqZ

htF

5345aED

E2y

5Epf

dDAn

53506. 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

of brilliant form, —

5355# yA

hotArA

TmA

vAcA

5360EmmAnA

yjy

5365#

codytA

EvdT

kA!

5370AcFn

6yoEt

EdfA

EdftA

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

5375speech 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.

5380y.

BArtF

5385Ev0A

vEdh

tytF

5390Et*o

vFb

5395d

yon

srvtF

vps

sdt

54008. 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

this sacred seat of happy ease.

Mandala Ten

5405y

AvAp

ETvF

jEnF

5410!p

#rEp

vnAEn

5415Ev

hotErEqto

yjFyAn

5420d

vArEmh

Ev7An

54259. 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

sacrifice, having the knowledge, even the divine maker of

forms.

5430upAvs

myA

sm)jn

5435vAnA

pAT

-t

hvF

5440Eq

vnpEt

fEmtA

5445aEn

vdt

h y

5450G

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

5455towards 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

light.

5460jAto

yEmmFt

y.mEnd

vAnAmBvt

5465rogA

hot

5470ty

vAEc

vAhAk

hEvrdt

5475d

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

sacrifice and became the leader who goes in front of the

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

5480out by its direction the Truth, may the gods partake of the

oblation made sv¯ah¯a.

UPASTUTA VARSHTIHAVYA

SUKTA 115

5485iEQCfotzZy

vTo

mAtrAvJy

5490Et

DAtv

5495yEd

jFjndDA

5500so

mEh

5505crn

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,

even though one without teats of plenty brought him to birth

Other Hymns to Agni

5510then as now, from the first he did his carrying, performing

his mighty embassy.

aEnh

nAm

DAEy

5515d3ptm

vnA

5520vt

BmnA

dtA

aEBm

5525j

vvr

ino

5530oTmAno

yvs

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

5535he 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.

5540Ev

5545vmDs

oTt

vptmZ

5550aAsA

vE>

foEcqA

EvrEJfn

5555mEhv

srjtmvn

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

5560flow 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

paths.

5565yy

{ysAnyAjr

Don

vAtA

5570pEr

syQy

r@vAso

5575y

Dyo

svn

5580Et

nft

Efqt

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

5585burn, 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

idEn

5590k@vtm

k@vsKA'y

pryAtry

tzq

aEn

5595pAt

Zto

aEn

5600$

rFnEnd

dAt

qAmvo

5605n

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

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

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

his protection to them and to us.

561037 Or, Trita the warrior.

Mandala Ten

vAEjtmAy

sVs

5615EpWy

QyvAno

5620jAtv

Ecd

5625yo

qtA

5630mEhtmAy

Dvn

dEvyt

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

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

5635full 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.

evAEnm

5640#

ErEBv

5645s

shs

5650nro

EmAso

5655y

EDtA

-tAyvo

Avo

5660n

#rEB

sEt

mAn

5665qAn

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

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

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

friends, like the heavens with their lights have power on

5670human beings.

Ujo

npAt

shsAvE3Et

vopt

5675ty

vdt

vAk

5680vA

toqAm

vyA

vFrA

5685d

AGFy

aAy

dDAnA

56908. “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

ever longer life.

iEt

5695vAn

Eh yy

5700upt

tAs

-qyo'vocn

;

5705c

pAEh

5710s

rFn

vqX

vqE0y

5715$

ann

nmo

5720nm

5725ann

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

the Upastuta Rishis;39 protect them and the illuminates who

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

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

573038 Or, the master of riches,

39 Or, sages, extolled;

Other Hymns to Agni

CHITRAMAHAS VASISHTHA

SUKTA 122

5735vs

Ecmhs

ZFq

5740vAm

vmEtETmE7q

@ym

5745rAst

zDo

vDAyso'Enho

5750tA

hpEt

vFy

5755m

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

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

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

5760j

qAZo

5765m

vco

vAEn

Ev7An

5770vy

nAEn

5to

5775tEnEZ

gAt

5780m

5785ajny3n

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

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

5790will! Robed in light, put out a path for the Word, the gods

have begotten all according to thy law of works.

DAmAEn

pEry3myo

5795dAfd

dAf

5800t

mAmhv

vFr

5805rEyZAn

vAB

aAnV

5810sEmDA

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

5815giver, 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.

y.y

5820t

roEht

hEvmt

5825I0t

vAEjnm

@vtmEn

5830G

5835Zt

5840s

vFy

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

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

5845the Bull with the luminous back who hears our words, the

god who on him who satisfies him with gifts bestows fullness

of heroic might.

40 Or, greatnesses,

41 Or, exalt him;

5850Mandala Ten

5855Tmo

5860$

ymAno

tAy

5865vA

mzto

dAf

5870qo

tom

5875EBB

gvo

zzc

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

5880art 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.

5885hs

vDAys

5890y.Ey

yjmAnAy

5to

5895G

E-

tAEn

dFd

5900vEt

pErys

5905$

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

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

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

5910mining the Truths, circling round our house and our sacrifice

thou puttest forth thy strength of will.

vAEmdyA

uqso

5915Eq

5920@vAnA

ayjt

mAn

5925d

mhyA?yAy

vAv

5930rA6ymn

Enm

jto

avr

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

5935sacrifice 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.

5940vEsSA

a4t

vAEjn

Zto

5945an

EvdT

5950rAypoq

yjmAn

DAry

5955$

pAt

vEtEB

sdA

5960n

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

voicing the Fire, ordainers of works in the discoverings of

knowledge; uphold the increasing of the riches in the doers

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

5965Other Hymns to Agni

AGNI PAVAKA

SUKTA 140

59702vo

vyo

mEh

Ajt

5975ac

EvBAvso

hYAno

5980fvsA

vAjm

8Ly

dDAEs

dAf

5985q

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

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

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

5990for the giver a plenitude of utterance.

pAvkvcA

5vcA

5995$

nvcA

uEdyEq

BAn

6000p

mAtrA

Evcr3

pAvEs

6005p

rodsF

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

6010deficient is thy energy as thou ascendest with thy light — a

son thou rangest and protectest the Parents and thou joinest

together earth and heaven.

Ujo

npA6jAtv

6015d

fEtEBm

DFEtEBEh

6020t

6025B

Ervp

cotyo

6030vAmjAtA

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

rejoice in our perfect utterances and our thinkings; in thee

they have joined together impelling forces of many forms,

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

6035ir6y3n

Tyv

EBrm

rAyo

6040amy

6045qo

rAjEs

6050sAnEs

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

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

6055satest thy conquering will.

42 Or, thou shinest out from

Mandala Ten

iktA

rmvry

6060c

rADso

6065rAEt

vAmy

BgA

mhFEmq

6070dDAEs

sAnEs

rEym

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

ment thou foundest a bounty of delight and a great and

6075fortunate impulsion and conquering Riches.

-tAvAn

mEhq

vdf

6080tmEn

<Ay

dEDr

6085ro

jnA

sTtm

6090EgrA

# y

mAn

6095y

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

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

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

6100human generations.

MRIDIKA VASISHTHA

SUKTA 150

sEm=E

6105sEmys

h yvAhn

6110aAEdy

6115EBn

gEh

0FkAy

6120n

gEh

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

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

6125with the Rudras and with the Shining Ones, come to us for

grace.

y.Emd

vco

6130j

qAZ

upAgEh

mtA

6135svA

sEmDAn

hvAmh

0FkAy

6140hvAmh

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

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

vAm

jAtv

6145ds

vvAr

6150EDyA

;

6155aA

Eyv

tAn

6160m

0FkAy

Eyv

tAn

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

6165Other 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

grace.

aEnd

6170vo

vAnAmBvt

roEhto'En

6175mn

-qy

smFEDr

aEn

6180mho

DnsAtAvh

61850Fk

DnsAty

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

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

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

6190aEnrE

Br7Aj

gEvESr

Av3

k@v

6195sdy

mAhv

aEn

vEsSo

hvt

6200p

roEhto

0FkAy

6205roEht

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

tected for us Kanwa and Trasadasyu in the battle, Fire

Vasishtha the vicar priest calls, the vicar priest calls him

for grace.

6210KETU AGNEYA

SUKTA 156

aEn

Ehvt

6215EDy

sEPmAf

EmvAEjq

6220j

Dnm

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

6225galloper in the battles, by him may we conquer every kind

of wealth.

yyA

aAkrAmh

6230s

nyAn

tvoyA

6235Ehv

mG1y

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

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

43 Or, speed for us

6240Mandala Ten

aAn

6245rEy

gomtmE

6250vnm

aER

6255yA

pEZm

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

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

evil Trafficker.

6260an

nmjrmA

6265rohyo

EdEv

dD66yoEtj

62704. O Fire, make to ascend the ageless traveller-star, the sun in

heaven upholding the Light for men.

6275Ev

fAmEs

upTst

6280boDA

vyo

dDt

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

6285most glorious, seated in the centre.44 Awake, founding his

expansion who lauds thee.

VATSA AGNEYA

SUKTA 187

Any

6290vAcmFry

qBAy

EtFnAm

6295n

dEt

E7q

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

6300may he carry us through beyond the hostile forces.

pryA

prAvtEtro

DvAEtroct

6305s

dEt

E7q

63102. 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.

45 Or, of the peoples,

Other Hymns to Agni

6315yo

Enj

6320v

6325Z

foEcqA

6330dEt

E7q

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

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

6335Ev

vAEB

Evp

yEt

6340vnA

yEt

6345s

dEt

E7q

63504. He who looks upon all the worlds and sees them wholly,

may he carry us through beyond the hostile forces.

pAr

6355rjs

aEnrjAyt

6360n

dEt

E7q

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

6365may he carry us through beyond the hostile forces.

SAMVANANA ANGIRASA

SUKTA 191

sEmd

6370y

q3n

6375vAyy

i0pd

sEmys

6380no

63851. 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.

gQCv

6390s

vdv

mnA

6395Es

jAntAm

BAg

6400yTA

6405jAnAnA

upAst

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

one knowledge even as the ancient gods arriving at one

knowledge partake each of his own portion.

6410Mandala Ten

smAno

sEmEt

smAnF

6415smAn

Ec1m

qAm

6420smAn

mmEB

smAn

6425n

hEvqA

hoEm

64303. 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

sacrifice for you with a common offering.

smAnF

6435v

aAk

smAnA

6440}dyAEn

smAnmt

mno

6445yTA

shAsEt

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

6450common to you be your mind, — so that close companion-

ship may be yours.