Canto 4Hymns of Gritsamada

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MANDALA TWO

SUKTA 1

vmn

EBvmAf

EZvmd

yvm

mnpEr

10vn

yvmoqDF yv

15pt

jAys

1. O Fire, thou art born with thy lights, flaming out on us in

20thy effulgence; thou art born from the waters and around

the stone, thou art born from the forests and born from the

plants of the earth. Pure art thou in thy birth, O Master of

man and his race.

tvAn

25ho

pom

Evy

30n

vmEnd

tAyt

35vmvrFyEs

cAEs

40hpEt

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

45cation and the order of the sacrifice, thine the lustration;

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

annunciation is thine, thou becomest the pilgrim-rite:1 thou

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

home.

50vmn

55stAmEs

EvZ

zzgAyo

nmy

60v

rEyEvd

65Zpt

EvDt

scs

70ryA

3. O Fire, thou art Indra the Bull of all that are and thou art

wide-moving2 Vishnu, one to be worshipped with obeisance.

O Master of the Word, thou art Brahma, the finder of the

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

752 Or, wide-sung

Riches: O Fire who sustainest each and all, closely thou

companionest the Goddess of the many thoughts.3

vmn

rAjA

80vzZo

Emo

85BvEs

vmy

90mA

spEty

95j

EvdT

100v

BAjy

4. O Fire, thou art Varuna the king who holds in his hands the

law of all workings and thou art Mitra the potent and de-

sirable Godhead. Thou art Aryaman, master of beings, with

105whom is complete enjoying; O Godhead, thou art Ansha

who gives us our portion in the winning of the knowledge.

vmn

EvDt

110s

vFy

nAvo

Emmh

115sjAym

vmAf

rErq

120v

nrA

fDo

125aEs

!vs

5. O Fire, thou art Twashtri and fashionest fullness of force

for thy worshipper; thine, O friendly Light, are the goddess-

130Energies and all oneness of natural kind. Thou art the swift

galloper and lavishest good power of the Horse; thou art

the host of the gods and great is the multitude of thy riches.

vmn

135o

mho

Edvv

140fDo

mAzt

IEfq

145vAt

#rzZ

#yA

150gyv

EvDt

155pAEs

mnA

6. O Fire, thou art Rudra, the mighty one of the great Heaven

and thou art the army of the Life-Gods and hast power over

160all that fills desire. Thou journeyest with dawn-red winds

to bear thee and thine is the house of bliss; thou art Pushan

and thou guardest with thyself thy worshippers.

vmn

165EvZodA

170d

sEvtA

r&DA

aEs

175v

Bgo

180IEfq

pAy

185yt

'EvDt

7. O Fire, to one who makes ready and sufficient his works

thou art the giver of the treasure; thou art divine Savitri and

a founder of the ecstasy. O Master of man, thou art Bhaga

1903 Or, the Goddess tenant of the city.

Hymns of Gritsamada

and hast power for the riches; thou art the guardian in the

house for one who worships thee with his works.

vAmn

195dm

pEt

EvfvA

200rAjAn

Evdm

)jt

205Ev

vAEn

vnFk

pys

210sh*AEZ

ftA

8. O Fire, men turn to thee the master of the human being in

215his house; thee they crown, the king perfect in knowledge. O

strong force of Fire, thou masterest all things; thou movest

to the thousands and the hundreds and the tens.

vAmn

EptrEmEEBn

220rvA

AAy

fMyA

225$

zcm

230BvEs

'EvDt

sKA

235s

pAyAD

2409. O Fire, men worship thee with their sacrifices as a father and

thee that thou mayst be their brother by their achievement

of works when thou illuminest the body with thy light. Thou

becomest a son to the man who worships thee; thou art his

blissful friend and guardest him from the violence of the

245adversary.

vmn

-B

rAk

nmyv

250vAjy

mto

rAy

IEfq

255Ev

BAyn

dAvn

260EvEf

rEs

y.mAtEn

10. O Fire, thou art the craftsman Ribhu, near to us and to be

265worshipped with obeisance of surrender; thou hast mastery

over the store of the plenitude and the riches. All thy wide

shining of light and onward burning is for the gift of the

treasure; thou art our instructor in wisdom and our builder

of sacrifice.

270vmn

aEdEtd

dAf

275v

hoA

BArtF

280EgrA

vEm0A

ftEhmAEs

285v

srvtF

29011. O Divine Fire, thou art Aditi, the indivisible Mother to the

giver of the sacrifice; thou art Bharati, voice of the offering,

and thou growest by the word. Thou art Ila of the hundred

winters wise to discern; O Master of the Treasure, thou art

Saraswati who slays the python adversary.

295vmn

u1m

300vytv

pAh

305d

E2y

vAj

310trZo

h3Es

rEyb

315h

vtp

32012. O Fire, when thou art well borne by us thou becomest the

supreme growth and expansion of our being, all glory and

beauty are in thy desirable hue and thy perfect vision. O

Vastness, thou art the plenitude that carries us to the end of

our way; thou art a multitude of riches spread out on every

325side.

vAmn

aAEdyAs

aAy

330Ej4A

cE5r

335vA

rAEtqAco

avr

340cr

hEvrdyAh

345tm

13. O Fire, the sons of the indivisible Mother made thee their

mouth, the pure Gods made thee their tongue; O Seer, they

who are ever close to our giving are constant to thee in the

rites of the Path; the Gods eat in thee the offering cast before

350them.

355am

tAso

aAsA

360d

hEvrdyAh

vyA

365mtA

vdt

aAs

370v

gBo

vFzDA

jE.q

375Ec

14. O Fire, all the Gods, the Immortals unhurtful to man, eat

in thee and by thy mouth the offering cast before them; by

thee mortal men taste of the libation. Pure art thou born, a

child of the growths of the earth.

380v

tAs

cAEs

385m6mnA'n

jAt

390v

ErQys

395mEhnA

vdn

400AvAp

ETvF

rodsF

15. O Fire that hast come to perfect birth, thou art with the

405Gods and thou frontest them in thy might and thou ex-

ceedest them too, O God, when here the satisfying fullness

of thee becomes all-pervading in its greatness along both the

continents, Earth and Heaven.

Hymns of Gritsamada

410y

tot

goag

415vp

fsmn

rAEtm

jEt

420s

amA)c

425c

430aA

h7d

EvdT

435s

vFrA

16. When to those who chant thee, the luminous Wise Ones

set free thy gift, O Fire, the wealth in whose front the Ray-

Cow walks and its form is the Horse, thou leadest us on and

440leadest them to a world of greater riches. Strong with the

strength of the heroes, may we voice the Vast in the coming

of knowledge.

SUKTA 2

445n

jAtv

dsmEn

450yjv

hEvqA

tnA

EgrA

sEmDAn

455s

hotAr

460v

465q

1. Make the Fire that knows all things born to grow by your

sacrifice; worship him with thy offering and thy body and

thy speech. Worship in his kindling Fire with whom are his

470strong delights, the male of the sun-world, the Priest of the

Call, the inhabitant of Heaven4 who sits at the chariot yoke

in our battles.

aEB

475n8tFzqso

vvAEfr

480vsr

Edv

485iv

drEtmA

490gA

BAEs

zvAr

495s

2. The Nights and the Dawns have lowed to thee as the milch-

cows low towards a calf in their lairs of rest. O Fire of many

blessings, thou art the traveller of Heaven through the ages

500of man and thou shinest self-gathered through his nights.5

505rjs

Edvp

510ET yorrEt

Err

rTEmv

515f

5foEcqmEn

EEtq

520f

3. The Gods have sent into the foundation of the middle world

this great worker and pilgrim of earth and of heaven, whom

4 Or, who dwells in the Light,

5255 Or, self-gathered thou illuminest his nights.

we must know, like our chariot of white-flaming light, Fire

whom we must voice with our lauds like a friend in the

peoples.

530mAZ

rjEs

535cd

Emv

4Ar

540aA

ptr

545EctytmEB

pATo

pAy

jnsF

550uB

4. They have set in the crookedness, set pouring his rain like

gold in the beauty of his light,6 in the middle world and in his

own home, the guardian of the dappled mother who awak-

555ens us to knowledge with his eyes of vision, the protector of

our path along either birth.

hotA

560v

pEr

vvr

565tm

h y

570-)jt

EgrA

EhErEfo

DsAnAs

575jB

EBE

580ctyd

odsF

5. Let Fire be the priest of your call, let his presence be around

every pilgrim-rite; this is he whom men crown with the word

585and the offering. He shall play in his growing fires wearing

his tiara of golden light; like heaven with its stars he shall

give us knowledge of our steps along both the continent-

worlds.

590no

sEmDAn

vty

595s

ddvAn

rEymmAs

dFEdEh

600n

605EvtAy

rodsF

h yA

610qo

vvFty

6. O Fire, opulently kindling for our peace, let thy light arise

in us and bring its gift of riches. Make Earth and Heaven

615ways for our happy journeying and the offerings of man a

means for the coming of the Gods.

620b

hto

shE*Zo

625ro

vAj

apA

630v

AcF

AvAp

ETvF

635b

640f

qso

645t

7. O Fire, give us the vast possessions, the thousandfold riches;

open to inspiration like gates the plenitude; make Earth and

6 Or, like a thing of delight in his shining beauty,

Hymns of Gritsamada

650Heaven turned to the Beyond by the Word. The Dawns have

broken into splendour as if there shone the brilliant world

of the Sun.

iDAn

655uqso

rAMyA

dFd

660dzq

BAn

hoAEBrEnm

665n

vvro

rAjA

EvfAmEtET

670cAzrAyv

8. Kindled in the procession of the beautiful Dawns, he shall

break into roseate splendour like the world of the Sun. O

Fire, making effective the pilgrim-rite by man’s voices of

offering, thou art the King of the peoples and the Guest

675delightful to the human being.

evA

680t

685DFpFpAy

hE:v

mAn

690qA

hAnA

695v

kArv

mnA

700fEtn

z!pEmqEZ

9. O pristine Fire, even thus the Thought has nourished our

human things in the immortals, in the great Heavens. The

705Thought is our milch-cow, of herself she milks for the doer

of works in his battles and in his speed to the journey the

many forms and the hundreds of the Treasure.

vymn

710tA

vFy

715ZA

Ecty

jnA

720;

aEt

amAk

<mED

p)c

725k

QcA

730f

cFt

735/

10. O Fire, let us conquer a hero-strength by the War-Horse, or

let us awake to knowledge beyond men by the Word;7 let

our light shine out in the Five Nations high and inviolable

like the world of the Sun.

740s

boED

shy

745yo

yEms

jAtA

iqyt

750$

ymn

y.m

pyEt

755vAEjno

Eny

tok

dFEdvA

760v

11. Awake, O forceful Fire, one to be voiced by our lauds; for

thou art he in whom the luminous seers come to perfect

7 Or, wake in ourselves a strength of heroes beyond men’s scope by the power of the

765War-Horse or by the Word;

birth and speed on their way. O Fire, thou art the sacrifice

and to thee the Horses of swiftness come there where thou

shinest with light in the eternal son and in thy own home.

uByAso

770jAtv

yAm

totAro

775an

780fm

vvo

rAy

785z

790ys

jAvt

vpyy

fED

79512. O Fire, O God who knowest all things born, may we both

abide in thy peace, those who hymn thee and the luminous

seers. Be forceful for the opulence of the Treasure with the

multitude of its riches and its many delights and its issue

and the offspring of the Treasure.

800y

tot

goag

805vp

fsmn

rAEtm

jEt

810s

amA)c

815c

820aA

h7d

EvdT

825s

vFrA

13. When to those who hymn thee the luminous Wise set free,

O Fire, the gift in whose front the Ray-Cow walks and

whose form is the Horse, thou leadest us on and leadest

830them to a world of greater riches. Strong with the strength

of the Heroes, may we voice the Vast in the coming of the

knowledge.

SUKTA 3

sEm=o

835aEnEn

Eht

ET yA

840Ev

vAEn

vnAyTAt

hotA

845pAvk

Edv

850d

vAn

yjvEnrh

855n

1. The Fire that was set inward in the earth is kindled and has

arisen fronting all the worlds. He has arisen, the purifying

Flame, the priest of the call, the wise of understanding, the

Ancient of Days. Today let the Fire in the fullness of his

860powers, a god to the gods do sacrifice.

Hymns of Gritsamada

nrAf

865DAmAy)jn

Et*o

Edv

m>A

870vEc

mnsA

875h ym

880n

y.y

smn8t

vAn

8852. Fire who voices the godhead, shines revealing the planes,

each and each; high of ray he reveals, each and each, the

triple heavens by his greatness. Let him flood the oblation

with a mind that diffuses the light and manifest the gods on

the head of the sacrifice.

890IE0to

mnsA

895n

vAn

mAn

900qAt

905s

mztA

fDo

910aQy

tEmd

nro

bEh

915yjvm

3. O Fire, aspired to by our mind, putting forth today thy

power do sacrifice to the gods, O thou who wast of old

before aught that is human. Bring to us the unfallen host of

the Life-Gods; and you, O Powers, sacrifice to Indra where

920he sits on the seat of our altar.

bEh

925D

mAn

vFr

tFZ

930rAy

yAm

935G

nA8t

vsv

sFdt

940d

945aAEdyA

yE.yAs

4. O Godhead, strewn is the seat on this altar, the hero-guarded

seat that ever grows, the seat well-packed for the riches,8

anointed with the Light. O all Gods, sit on this altar-seat,

950sons of the indivisible Mother, princes of the treasure, kings

of sacrifice.

2ytAm

955yA

ymAnA

7Aro

960d

AyZA

nmoEB

965 ycvtFEv

TtAmj

970nAnA

yfs

vFrm

5. May the divine Doors swing open, wide to our call, easy of

975approach with our prostrations of surrender; may they

stretch wide opening into vastnesses, the imperishable

Doors purifying the glorious and heroic kind.

8 Or, made strong to bear for the riches,

sAvpA

980Es

sntA

uEt

uqAsAn8tA

985v?y

rE@vt

990s

vytF

smFcF

y.y

995f

pyvtF

10006. Milch-cows, good milkers, pouring out on us may Night

and Dawn, the eternal and equal sisters, come like weaving

women full of gladness, weaving out the weft that is spun,

the weft of our perfected works into a shape of sacrifice.

1005# yA

hotArA

TmA

Evd

1010-j

1015rA

vAyjtAv

1020sm)jto

nABA

ET yA

aED

1025sAn

7. The two divine Priests of the call, the first, the full in wisdom

and stature, offer by the illumining Word the straight things

1030in us; sacrificing to the Gods in season, they reveal them

in light in the navel of the Earth and on the three peaks of

Heaven.

srvtF

sADytF

1035EDy

i0A

1040BArtF

1045Et*o

vDyA

bEh

1050r

dmEQCd

pAt

frZ

Enq

10558. May Saraswati effecting our thought and goddess Ila and

Bharati who carries all to their goal, the three goddesses,

sit on our altar-seat and guard by the self-law of things our

gapless house of refuge.

EpfH!p

1060s

Bro

vyoDA

vFro

1065jAyt

vkAm

1070Ev

nAEBmm

aTA

1075vAnAmJy

pAT

9. Soon there is born a Hero of golden-red form, an aspirant

to the Godheads, a mighty bringer of riches and founder

1080of our growth to wideness. Let the Maker of forms loosen

the knot of the navel in us, let him set free the issue of our

works; then let him walk on the way of the Gods.9

9 Or, let the way of the Gods come to us.

Hymns of Gritsamada

1085vnpEtrvs

TAdEnh

1090s

dyAEt

DFEB

EDA

1095sm8t

nyt

jAnn

1100 yo

# y

fEmtop

h ym

1105/

10. The Plant is with us streaming out the Wine. Fire speeds the

oblation by our thoughts. Let the divine Achiever of works,

understanding, lead the offering triply revealed10 in his light

on its way to the Godheads.

1110G

EmEm

tmy

1115yoEnG

E2to

tMvy

1120DAm

vDmA

mAdyv

1125vAhAk

1130h ym

11. I pour on him the running light; for the light is his native

lair, he is lodged in the light, the light is his plane. According

to thy self-nature, bring the Gods and fill them with rapture.

O Male of the herd, carry to them our offering blessed with

1135sv¯ah¯a.11

SUKTA 4

1140s

omAn

E8t

1145EvfAmEnmEtET

ysm

1150yo

EdEDqA?yo

1155d

aAd

1160jAtv

1. I call to you the Fire with his strong delights and his splen-

dours of light, Fire who strips all sin from us, the guest of the

peoples. He becomes like a supporting friend, he becomes

1165the God who knows all things born in the man with whom

are the Gods.12

EvDto

apA

1170sDT

E7tAdD

gvo

EvLvAyo

1175eq

vAy yt

1180mA

vAnAmEnrrEtjF

11852. The Bhrigus worshipping in the session of the Waters set

him a twofold Light in the peoples of Man. May he master

all planes prevailing vastly, Fire the traveller of the Gods

with his rapid horses.

10 Or, triply anointed

119011 Or, made into sv¯ah¯a.

12 Or, in all from men to the Gods.

aEn

vAso

1195mAn

qFq

1200yto

Emm

dFdyd

1205ftF!MyA

dA?yo

dAvt

1210dm

3. As men who would settle in a home bring into it a beloved

friend, the Gods have set the Fire in these human peoples.

Let him illumine the desire of the billowing nights, let him

1215be one full of discerning mind in the house for the giver of

sacrifice.

r@vA

1220v

1225Ery

EhyAny

1230BErB

doqDFq

Ej4Amyo

rLyo

1235doDvFEt

vArAn

4. Delightful is his growth as if one’s own increase, rapturous

is his vision as he gallops burning on his way. He darts about

his tongue mid the growths of the forest and tosses his mane

1240like a chariot courser.

a v

vnd

1245pntoEf yo

nAEmmFt

1250Ec

EcEkt

1255BAsA

;

1260yo

1265vA

5. When my thoughts enjoying him chant his mightiness, he

1270shapes hue of kind as if to our desire. He awakes to knowl-

edge in men that have the ecstasy by the rich diversity of his

light; old and outworn he grows young again and again.

1275vnA

tAt

qAZo

BAEt

1280vAZ

pTA

rLy

vAnFt

1285k

ZAvA

r@vE

1290ck

OErv

mymAno

nBoEB

12956. Like one who thirsts he lifts his light on the forests; his roar

is like the cry of waters on their path, he neighs like a chariot

war-horse. Black is his trail, burning his heat; he is full of

rapture and awakes to knowledge: he is like Father Heaven

smiling with his starry spaces.

1300Hymns of Gritsamada

yTAdEB

1305vF

1310vy

rgopA

aEn

foEcmA

;

1315atsAy

Z yETrvdy3

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7. He starts on his journey to burn through all wide earth and

moves like a beast that wanders at will and has no keeper;

Fire with his blazing light and his black affliction assails the

1325dry trunks with his heat as if he tasted the vastness.

1330$

yAvso

aDFtO

1335tFy

EvdT

1340am

y7Fr

1345ht

vAj

vpy

rEy

1350dA

8. Now in our mind’s return on thy former safeguarding, our

thought has been spoken in the third session of the knowl-

edge. O Fire, give us the treasure with its children; give us a

vast and opulent plenitude where the heroes assemble.

1355vyA

yTA

smdAso

1360g

vvt

uprA

;

1365aEB

vFrAso

aEBmAEtqAh

1370mt

Er yo

1375Zt

vyo

9. To the luminous Wise Ones and to him who voices thee, O

1380Fire, be the founder of their growth and expansion, that

the Gritsamadas strong with the strength of the Heroes

and overcoming the hostile forces may conquer the higher

worlds by thy force and take delight of13 the secret inner

spaces.

1385SUKTA 5

hotAjEn

EptA

1390Ept

Uty

y)j

1395vs

vAEjno

ymm

14001. A conscious Priest of the call is born to us; a father is born

to his fathers for their safeguard. May we avail to achieve

by sacrifice the wealth that is for the victor,14 and to rein the

Horse of swiftness.

13 Or, win

140514 Or, the wealth that has to be conquered,

yEmsP

myttA

1410y.y

tEr

1415d

# ymm

potA

1420tEdvEt

2. The seven rays are extended in this leader of sacrifice; there

is a divine eighth that carries with it the human. The Priest

of the purification takes possession of15 That All.

dDv

1425vA

ydFmn

vocd

AEZ

1430v

pEr

1435vAEn

kA yA

c5EmvABvt

14403. When a man has firmly established this Fire, he echoes the

Words of knowledge and comes to16 That: for he embraces

all seer-wisdoms as the rim surrounds a wheel.

sAk

1445f

EcnA

fAtA

14505t

nAjEn

Ev7A

;

1455v

vyA

1460ivAn

roht

4. Pure, the Priest of the annunciation is born along with the

pure will. The man who knows the laws of his workings that

are steadfast for ever, climbs them one by one like branches.

1465tA

mAy

1470n

sct

1475Evt

Ets

1480vsAro

5. The milch-cows come to and cleave to the hue of Light17 of

1485this Priest of the lustration, the Sisters who have gone once

and again to that Supreme over the three.18

ydF

mAt

1490vsA

BryETt

tAsAmvy

1495rAgtO

yvo

modt

15006. When the sister of the Mother comes to him bringing the

yield of the Light, the Priest of the pilgrim-sacrifice rejoices

in her advent as a field of barley revels in the rain.

15 Or, travels to (reaches)

16 Or, and comes to know

150517 Or, the hue of kind

18 The fourth world, Turiyam above the three, so called in the Rigveda, tur¯ıya ˙m svid.

Hymns of Gritsamada

vAy

1510DAys

tAm

Evg

1515Evjm

tom

cAdr

1520mA

rErmA

vym

7. Himself for his own confirming let the Priest of the rite

create the priest; let us take joy of the laud and the sacrifice,

1525for then it is complete, what we have given.19

yTA

Ev7A

;

1530krd

yjt

1535 y

aymn

aEp

1540y.

vym

8. Even as one who has the knowledge let him work out the

1545rite for all the lords of the sacrifice. On thee, O Fire, is this

sacrifice that we have made.

SUKTA 6

imA

1550an

sEmDEmmAm

psd

imA

1555U

Egr

1. O Fire, mayst thou rejoice in the fuel I bring thee, rejoice in

1560my session of sacrifice. Deeply lend ear to my words.

ayA

EvD

1565mojo

npAd

vEm

enA

1570$

jAt

15752. O Fire, who art brought to perfect birth, Child of Energy,

Impeller of the Horse, we would worship thee with this obla-

tion, we would worship thee with this Word well-spoken.

1580gFEB

1585EvZy

EvZod

spy

1590spy

3. We would wait with our Words on thy joy in the Word; O

Treasure-giver, we would wait on the seeker of the Treasure.

Let us serve thee, all whose desire is thy service.

159519 Or, for then it is complete, we have moved (on the way). Or, let us take full joy of

the laud and the sacrifice; for we have given.

boED

1600$

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GvA

1605vs

dAvn

yoymd

1610Es

4. O Wealth-Lord, Wealth-giver, awake, a seer and a Master

of Treasures; put away from us the things that are hostile.

1615v

EdvpEr

1620vAjmnvA

shE*ZFErq

16255. For us, O Fire, the Rain of Heaven around us! for us, O

Fire, the wealth immovable,20 for us, O Fire, the impulsions

that bring their thousands.

I0AnAyAvyv

yEvS

1630d

EgrA

1635yEjS

hotrA

gEh

6. O Messenger, O youngest Power, come at our word for him

who aspires to thee and craves for thy safeguard; arrive, O

1640Priest of the call, strong for sacrifice.

atV

Iys

Ev7A)jmoByA

1645kv

1650v

EmWy

7. O Fire, O seer, thou movest within having knowledge of

both the Births;21 thou art like a messenger from a friendly

people.22

1655s

Ev7A

;

1660Epyo

EcEkv

aAn

1665aA

cAEmsEs

bEh

8. Come with thy knowledge, O Conscious Fire, and fill us;

1670perform the unbroken order of the sacrifice. Take thy seat

on the sacred grass of our altar.

20 Or, free from all littleness,

21 Or, as one who has knowledge between both births;

22 Or, like a friendly universal messenger.

1675Hymns of Gritsamada

SUKTA 7

yEvS

BArtA'n

1680mtmA

vso

1685h

rEym

1. O Fire, O Youngest Power! Fire of the Bringers, Prince of

the Treasure, bring to us a wealth, the best, made all of light

and packed with our many desires.

1690mA

arAEtrFft

1695my

pEq

tyA

1700ut

E7q

2. Let not the Force that wars against us master the God and

the mortal;23 carry us beyond that hostile power.

1705vA

vyA

DArA

1710udyA

aEt

gAh

mEh

1715E7q

3. And so by thee may we plunge and pass beyond all hostile

forces as through streams of rushing water.

1720pAvk

vo'n

1725rocs

EBrAh

1730t

4. O cleansing Fire, thou art pure and adorable; vast is the

beauty of thy light fed with the clarities.

1735aEs

BArtA'n

vfAEBzEB

aApdFEBrAh

17405. O Fire of the Bringers, thou art called by24 our bulls and our

heifers and by our eight-footed Kine.25

23 Or, against us, God and mortal, overmaster us;

24 Or, fed with

25 Or, by our bulls and by our barren and pregnant kine. As.t.¯apad¯ı, literally eight-footed.

1745d

sEp

rAs

1750&o

hotA

shsp

1755o

6. This is the eater of the Tree for whom is poured the running

butter of the Light; this is the Desirable, the ancient Priest

1760of the call, the Wonderful, the son of Force.

SUKTA 8

vAjyE3v

1765rTAn

yogA

;

1770t

yftmy

mF[h

17751. As if to replenish him26 chant now the chariots of Fire and

his yokings, Fire the lavish and glorious Godhead.

nFTo

1780ddAf

jry3Erm

1785cAztFk

aAh

2. He brings his perfect leading to the man who has given; he

is invulnerable and wears out with wounds the foe. Fair is

1790the front of him fed with the offerings.

E2yA

1795vA

doqoqEs

fyt

1800t

mFyt

3. He is voiced in his glory and beauty at dusk and dawn in

our homes. Never impaired is the law of his working.

1805aA

BAn

1810Eco

EvBAyEc

a)jAno

ajr

1815#rEB

4. He shines rich with diverse lustres like the heavens of the

Sun27 in his illumining splendour, shines wide with his ray,

putting forth on us a revealing light with his ageless fires.

26 Or, as one seeking for plenitude

182027 Or, like the Sun

Hymns of Gritsamada

aEmn

vrA6ymEnm

8TAEn

1825vAv

aED

1830E2yo

5. Our words have made the Fire to grow, made the Traveller

to grow in the way of self-empire; he holds in himself all

glory and beauty.

1835an

Erd

somy

1840vAnAm

EtEBv

aEryt

1845sc

mVEB

yAm

tyt

18506. May we cleave to the safeguardings of the Fire and Soma

and Indra and of the Gods, meeting with no hurt overcome

those that are embattled against us.

SUKTA 9

1855hotA

hot

qdn

EvdAnv

1860dFEdvA

;

asdt

1865adNDv

tmEtv

EsS

sh*

1870f

EcEj4o

aEn

1. The Priest of the call has taken his seat in the house of his

priesthood; he is ablaze with light and vivid in radiance, he

1875is full of knowledge and perfect in judgment. He has a mind

of wisdom whose workings are invincible and is most rich

in treasures: Fire with his tongue of purity is a bringer of

the thousand.

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tvm

prpAv

1885vy

1890tA

toky

ntn

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QCn

dFd

boED

1900gopA

2. Thou art the Messenger, thou art our protector who takest

us to the other side; O Bull of the herds, thou art our leader

on the way to a world of greater riches. For the shaping of

the Son and the building of the bodies28 awake in thy light,

1905a guardian, and turn not from thy work, O Fire.

28 Or, in the offspring of the son of our bodies

EvD

1910prm

jm3n

EvD

tom

1915#rvr

sDT

ymAd

yon

zdAErTA

1920yj

hvF

1925j

sEm=

3. May we worship thee in thy supreme Birth, O Fire; may

1930we worship thee with our chants in the world of thy lower

session: I adore with sacrifice thy native lair from which

thou hast arisen. The offerings have been cast into thee

when thou wert kindled and ablaze.

1935yjv

hEvqA

yjFyA)C

1940ZmEB

ZFEh

rAD

1945VEs

rEyptF

ryFZA

19505y

vcso

mnotA

4. O Fire, be strong for sacrifice, do worship with my oblation;

swiftly voice my thought towards the gift of the Treasure.

1955For thou art the wealth-master who hast power over the

riches, thou art the thinker of the brilliant Word.

uBy

1960Fyt

vs y

Edv

jAymAny

1965dm

jErtArmn

1970k

pEt

vpyy

rAy

19755. Both kinds of wealth are thine, O potent Godhead and be-

cause thou art born from day to day, neither can waste

and perish. O Fire, make thy adorer one full of possessions;

make him a master of the Treasure and of wealth rich in

progeny.

1980s

#nAnFk

Evdo

1985am

;

1990aAyEjS

vEt

adNDo

gopA

1995n

prpA

2000r

EddFEh

6. O Fire, shine forth with this force29 of thine in us, one perfect

in knowledge, one who worships the Gods and is strong for

2005sacrifice. Be our indomitable guardian and our protector to

take us to the other side; flame in us with thy light, flame in

us with thy opulence.

29 Or, form

Hymns of Gritsamada

2010SUKTA 10

joh

aEn

2015Tm

Ept

0pd

2020qA

sEm=

E2y

vsAno

2025am

Evc

2030j

2vy

vAjF

20351. Fire is to us as our first father and to him must rise our call

when he is kindled by man in the seat of his aspiration. He

puts on glory and beauty like a robe; he is our Horse of

swiftness full of inspiration to be groomed by us, he is the

immortal wide in knowledge.

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aEnE

cBAn

2045v

vAEBgF

2050rm

Evc

yAvA

2055rT

vhto

roEhtA

votAzqAh

2060EvB

2. May Fire in the rich diversity of his lights, the immortal

wide in knowledge, hearken to my cry in all its words. Two

tawny horses bear him or two that are red or ruddy in glow.

Oh, one widely borne has been created.

2065u1AnAyAmjnys

2070vdEn

fAs

2075EfErZAyA

Ecd8t

mhoEBrprFv

2080vsEt

3. They have given him birth in one laid supine who with

happy delivery bore him; the Fire became a child in mothers

2085of many forms. This thinker and knower by the greatness of

his lights dwells30 even in the destroying Night unenveloped

by the darkness.

EjGMy

2090hEvqA

EtEyt

2095B

vnAEn

2100T

Etr

vysA

2105ht

yEcSm3

rBs

2110fAnm

4. I anoint the Fire with my oblation of light, where he dwells

fronting all the worlds; wide in his horizontal expansion

and vast, he is most open and manifest by all he has fed on,

seen in the impetuosity of his force.31

211530 Or, shines

31 Or, in the violence of his rapture.

2120y)c

EjGMy

rsA

mnsA

t6j

2125q

2130hy7Zo

aEnnA

EBm

tvA

2135jB

rAZ

5. I anoint him where he moves fronting all things on every

side; let him rejoice in That with a mind that withholds not

the riches.32 None can touch the body of the Fire where he

2140plays in his desire of the hues of light,33 in his strong and

glorious beauty.

BAg

2145shsAno

vAd

2150tAso

2155an

nmEn

2160vcyA

DnsA

2165johvFEm

6. Mayst thou take knowledge of thy portion putting forth

thy force with thy supreme flame; may we speak as the

thinking human being with thee for Messenger. I am one

who would conquer the Treasure and I call to the Fire with

2170my power of speech and my flame of offering, Fire in whom

is no insufficiency and he brings to us the touch of the

sweetness.34

32 Or, with a mind without the will to injure.

33 Or, with his desire-waking hue,

217534 Or, he fills us with the wine of sweetness.