Canto 4Hymns of Gritsamada

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SUKTA 1

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EBvmAf

5EZvmd

yvm mnpEr

yvmoqDF yv

10n

jAys

15f

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

thy effulgence; thou art born from the waters and around

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

20plants of the earth. Pure art thou in thy birth, O Master of

man and his race.

tvAn

25pom

Evy

vmEnd

30tAyt

vmvrFyEs

35A

cAEs

hpEt c

40dm

2. 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

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

45art the priest of the Word and the master of the house in our

home.

vmn

50v

stAmEs

EvZ

55zzgAyo

nmy

60rEyEvd

Zpt

EvDt

65scs

ryA

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

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

70O Master of the Word, thou art Brahma, the finder of the

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

2 Or, wide-sung

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

companionest the Goddess of the many thoughts.3

75vmn

rAjA

vzZo

80tv

Emo

BvEs

85y

vmy

spEty

90s

95EvdT

BAjy

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

100law of all workings and thou art Mitra the potent and de-

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

whom is complete enjoying; O Godhead, thou art Ansha

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

vmn

105vA

EvDt

vFy

110nAvo

Emmh

sjAym

vmAf

115mA

rErq

120nrA

fDo

aEs

!vs

1255. O Fire, thou art Twashtri and fashionest fullness of force

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

Energies 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.

130vmn

135mho

Edvv

fDo

mAzt

140IEfq

vAt

#rzZ

#yA

145Es

gyv

150qA

EvDt

pAEs

mnA

1556. 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

all 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.

160vmn

EvZodA

165t

sEvtA

170r&DA

aEs

Bgo

175pt

IEfq

pAy

180d

'EvDt

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

185thou art the giver of the treasure; thou art divine Savitri and

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

3 Or, the Goddess tenant of the city.

Hymns of Gritsamada

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

190house for one who worships thee with his works.

vAmn

195pEt

EvfvA

rAjAn

Evdm

200)jt

vAEn

vnFk

205pys

sh*AEZ

ftA

210Et

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

his 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.

215vAmn

EptrEmEEBn

rvA

AAy

220fMyA

zcm

225p

BvEs

'EvDt

230v

sKA

235pAyAD

9. 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

240becomest a son to the man who worships thee; thou art his

blissful friend and guardest him from the violence of the

adversary.

vmn

-B

245rAk

nmyv

vAjy

mto

rAy

250IEfq

BAyn

255dAvn

EvEf

rEs

y.mAtEn

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

worshipped 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

265treasure; thou art our instructor in wisdom and our builder

of sacrifice.

vmn

aEdEtd

270dAf

hoA

BArtF

275vD

EgrA

vEm0A

ftEhmAEs

280ds

285pt

srvtF

11. 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

290winters wise to discern; O Master of the Treasure, thou art

Saraswati who slays the python adversary.

vmn

295t

u1m

vytv

pAh

300aA

E2y

305v

vAj

trZo

h3Es

310v

rEyb

315vtp

12. 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

320Vastness, thou art the plenitude that carries us to the end of

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

side.

vAmn

aAEdyAs

325aAy

Ej4A

330cE5r

rAEtqAco

avr

335q

340vA

hEvrdyAh

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

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

345who 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

them.

350Ev

tAso

355h

aAsA

hEvrdyAh

360tm

vyA

mtA

vdt

365aAs

gBo

vFzDA

370jE.q

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

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

375thee mortal men taste of the libation. Pure art thou born, a

child of the growths of the earth.

tAs

380Et

cAEs

m6mnA'n

jAt

385c

ErQys

390o

mEhnA

395B

vdn

AvAp

ETvF

rodsF

400uB

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

Gods 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

405continents, Earth and Heaven.

Hymns of Gritsamada

tot

410goag

fsmn

rAEtm

415ps

jEt

420amA)c

425Eq

h7d

430m

EvdT

vFrA

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

435set 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

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

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

of knowledge.

440SUKTA 2

445jAtv

dsmEn

yjv

hEvqA

tnA

450EgrA

sEmDAn

455r

hotAr

460D

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

465sacrifice; worship him with thy offering and thy body and

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

strong 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.

470aEB

n8tFzqso

vvAEfr

475vs

vsr

480nv

Edv

drEtmA

485qA

BAEs

490p

zvAr

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

495cows low towards a calf in their lairs of rest. O Fire of many

blessings, thou art the traveller of Heaven through the ages

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

500vA

rjs

505ss

Edvp

ET yorrEt

Err

510rTEmv

5foEcqmEn

515n

EEtq

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

520this great worker and pilgrim of earth and of heaven, whom

4 Or, who dwells in the Light,

5 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

525peoples.

mAZ

rjEs

530aA

Emv

535zc

4Ar

540yA

ptr

EctytmEB

pATo

545pAy

jnsF

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

550gold in the beauty of his light,6 in the middle world and in his

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

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

our path along either birth.

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pEr

560$

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h y

565n

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EgrA

EhErEfo

570v

DsAnAs

575t

EBE

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odsF

5805. 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

and 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-

585worlds.

590sEmDAn

vty

ddvAn

rEymmAs

595dFEdEh

600v

EvtAy

rodsF

605h yA

vvFty

6106. O Fire, opulently kindling for our peace, let thy light arise

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

ways for our happy journeying and the offerings of man a

means for the coming of the Gods.

615no

hto

620shE*Zo

vAj

625yA

apA

AcF

630AvAp

ETvF

635ED

qso

640Ev

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

open to inspiration like gates the plenitude; make Earth and

6456 Or, like a thing of delight in his shining beauty,

Hymns of Gritsamada

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

broken into splendour as if there shone the brilliant world

of the Sun.

650s

iDAn

uqso

rAMyA

655vZ

dFd

dzq

BAn

660nA

hoAEBrEnm

vvro

665rAjA

EvfAmEtET

cAzrAyv

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

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

670Fire, making effective the pilgrim-rite by man’s voices of

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

delightful to the human being.

evA

675an

680$

DFpFpAy

hE:v

685q

mAn

hAnA

690D

695kArv

mnA

fEtn

z!pEmqEZ

7009. O pristine Fire, even thus the Thought has nourished our

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

Thought 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.

705vymn

710vFy

Ecty

715mA

jnA

;

aEt

amAk

720<mED

p)c

725QcA

cFt

730d

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

735our light shine out in the Five Nations high and inviolable

like the world of the Sun.

boED

740shy

yEms

jAtA

745iqyt

ymn

750y.m

pyEt

vAEjno

Eny

tok

755dFEdvA

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

760thou 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

War-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

765shinest with light in the eternal son and in thy own home.

uByAso

jAtv

yAm

770t

totAro

775ry

vvo

780rAy

785B

jAvt

vpyy

790fED

12. 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

795multitude of its riches and its many delights and its issue

and the offspring of the Treasure.

tot

800goag

fsmn

rAEtm

805ps

jEt

810amA)c

815Eq

h7d

820m

EvdT

vFrA

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

825O Fire, the gift in whose front the Ray-Cow walks and

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

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

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

knowledge.

830SUKTA 3

sEm=o

aEnEn

Eht

835ET yA

vAEn

840vnAyTAt

hotA

pAvk

Edv

845m

850vAn

yjvEnrh

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

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

855Flame, the priest of the call, the wise of understanding, the

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

powers, a god to the gods do sacrifice.

Hymns of Gritsamada

nrAf

860s

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Et*o

Edv

865Et

m>A

vEc

870qA

mnsA

h ym

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y.y

smn8t

880d

vAn

2. 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

885with a mind that diffuses the light and manifest the gods on

the head of the sacrifice.

IE0to

mnsA

890no

vAn

895yE

mAn

qAt

900vo

905mztA

fDo

aQy

tEmd

nro

910bEh

yjvm

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

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

915before aught that is human. Bring to us the unfallen host of

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

he sits on the seat of our altar.

920bEh

mAn

925vFr

tFZ

rAy

930v

yAm

nA8t

935vsv

sFdt

940d

aAEdyA

yE.yAs

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

945seat that ever grows, the seat well-packed for the riches,8

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

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

of sacrifice.

9502ytAm

955ymAnA

7Aro

960AyZA

nmoEB

ycvtFEv

TtAmj

965vZ

nAnA

yfs

970vFrm

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

approach with our prostrations of surrender; may they

stretch wide opening into vastnesses, the imperishable

Doors purifying the glorious and heroic kind.

9758 Or, made strong to bear for the riches,

sAvpA

sntA

980uEt

uqAsAn8tA

v?y

rE@vt

985tt

vytF

smFcF

990y.y

995G

pyvtF

6. 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,

1000the weft of our perfected works into a shape of sacrifice.

# yA

hotArA

TmA

1005Evd

-j

1010cA

vAyjtAv

1015t

sm)jto

nABA

1020ET yA

aED

sAn

10257. The two divine Priests of the call, the first, the full in wisdom

and stature, offer by the illumining Word the straight things

in 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.

1030srvtF

sADytF

EDy

i0A

1035d

BArtF

1040$

Et*o

1045vDyA

bEh

dmEQCd

pAt

1050frZ

Enq

8. 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

1055gapless house of refuge.

EpfH!p

Bro

vyoDA

1060F

vFro

jAyt

vkAm

1065jA

nAEBmm

1070aTA

vAnAmJy

pAT

10759. Soon there is born a Hero of golden-red form, an aspirant

to the Godheads, a mighty bringer of riches and founder

of 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

10809 Or, let the way of the Gods come to us.

Hymns of Gritsamada

vnpEtrvs

1085TAdEnh

dyAEt

1090DFEB

EDA

sm8t

nyt

jAnn

1095d

# y

1100fEmtop

h ym

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

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

1105understanding, lead the offering triply revealed10 in his light

on its way to the Godheads.

EmEm

1110G

tmy

yoEnG

E2to

1115G

tMvy

DAm

vDmA

1120vh

mAdyv

vAhAk

1125qB

h 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

1130to thy self-nature, bring the Gods and fill them with rapture.

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

sv¯ah¯a.11

SUKTA 4

1135v

omAn

1140v

E8t

EvfAmEnmEtET

ysm

1145Em

EdEDqA?yo

1150$

aAd

1155v

jAtv

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

1160dours of light, Fire who strips all sin from us, the guest of the

peoples. He becomes like a supporting friend, he becomes

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

are the Gods.12

1165EvDto

apA

sDT

E7tAdD

1170gvo

EvLvAyo

vAy yt

1175B

vAnAmEnrrEtjF

1180rA

2. 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

1185with his rapid horses.

10 Or, triply anointed

11 Or, made into sv¯ah¯a.

12 Or, in all from men to the Gods.

aEn

1190d

vAso

mAn

qFq

1195Ey

yto

Emm

1200s

dFdyd

ftF!MyA

dA?yo

1205yo

dAvt

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

1210friend, the Gods have set the Fire in these human peoples.

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

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

sacrifice.

1215r@vA

1220s

Ery

EhyAny

1225Ev

BErB

doqDFq

Ej4Amyo

1230n

rLyo

doDvFEt

vArAn

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

1235is his vision as he gallops burning on his way. He darts about

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

like a chariot courser.

1240a v

vnd

pntoEf yo

nAEmmFt

1245m

EcEkt

1250r

BAsA

1255vA

;

1260rA

1265t

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

shapes 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.

1270aA

vnA

tAt

qAZo

1275n

BAEt

vAZ

pTA

rLy

1280v

vAnFt

ZAvA

1285$

r@vE

OErv

1290mymAno

nBoEB

6. 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

1295rapture and awakes to knowledge: he is like Father Heaven

smiling with his starry spaces.

Hymns of Gritsamada

1300 yTAdEB

1305#

rgopA

aEn

1310foEcmA

;

atsAy

1315Z yETrvdy3

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

1320moves like a beast that wanders at will and has no keeper;

Fire with his blazing light and his black affliction assails the

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

1325t

yAvso

1330aDFtO

tFy

EvdT

1335f

1340y7Fr

vAj

1345vpy

rEy

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

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

1350edge. O Fire, give us the treasure with its children; give us a

vast and opulent plenitude where the heroes assemble.

vyA

yTA

1355smdAso

vvt

1360uprA

;

aEB

1365vFrAso

aEBmAEtqAh

1370Er yo

vyo

1375DA

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

Fire, 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

1380worlds by thy force and take delight of13 the secret inner

spaces.

SUKTA 5

hotAjEn

1385tn

EptA

Ept

Uty

1390y)j

1395vAEjno

ymm

1. 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

1400Horse of swiftness.

13 Or, win

14 Or, the wealth that has to be conquered,

yEmsP

1405r

myttA

y.y

tEr

1410mn

# ymm

potA

1415Ev

tEdvEt

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

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

1420of the purification takes possession of15 That All.

dDv

ydFmn

vocd

1425b

AEZ

1430pEr

vAEn

kA yA

1435Em

c5EmvABvt

3. 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.

1440sAk

EcnA

1445Ec

fAtA

nAjEn

Ev7A

1450;

1455vA

vyA

ivAn

roht

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

1460pure will. The man who knows the laws of his workings that

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

1465mAy

sct

1470nv

Evt

Ets

1475aA

vsAro

1480yy

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

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

and again to that Supreme over the three.18

ydF

1485mAt

vsA

1490BryETt

tAsAmvy

rAgtO

yvo

1495Fv

modt

6. 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.

150015 Or, travels to (reaches)

16 Or, and comes to know

17 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

1505v

vAy

DAys

1510tAm

Evg

Evjm

tom

1515cAdr

rErmA

vym

15207. Himself for his own confirming let the Priest of the rite

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

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

yTA

Ev7A

1525;

krd

1530 yo

yjt

aymn

1535aEp

1540vym

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

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

sacrifice that we have made.

SUKTA 6

1545imA

sEmDEmmAm

psd

1550vn

imA

1555Egr

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

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

ayA

1560an

EvD

mojo

npAd

vEm

1565enA

1570s

jAt

2. 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.

1575t

gFEB

1580Zs

EvZy

EvZod

1585spy

spy

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

1590Treasure-giver, we would wait on the seeker of the Treasure.

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

19 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.

1595boED

Erm

GvA

1600vs

dAvn

1605yoymd

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

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

1610s

EdvpEr

1615s

vAjmnvA

1620n

shE*ZFErq

5. 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.

1625I0AnAyAvyv

yEvS

1630no

EgrA

yEjS

hotrA

gEh

16356. O Messenger, O youngest Power, come at our word for him

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

Priest of the call, strong for sacrifice.

atV

1640Iys

Ev7A)jmoByA

1645to

EmWy

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

1650both the Births;21 thou art like a messenger from a friendly

people.22

Ev7A

;

1655aA

Epyo

EcEkv

1660aAn

cAEmsEs

bEh

1665Eq

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

perform the unbroken order of the sacrifice. Take thy seat

on the sacred grass of our altar.

20 Or, free from all littleness,

167021 Or, as one who has knowledge between both births;

22 Or, like a friendly universal messenger.

Hymns of Gritsamada

SUKTA 7

1675yEvS

BArtA'n

mtmA

vso

1680p

rEym

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

1685the Treasure, bring to us a wealth, the best, made all of light

and packed with our many desires.

arAEtrFft

1690d

1695pEq

tyA

E7q

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

1700the mortal;23 carry us beyond that hostile power.

vyA

1705vy

DArA

udyA

aEt

1710gAh

mEh

E7q

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

forces as through streams of rushing water.

1715f

pAvk

vo'n

1720hd

rocs

1725t

EBrAh

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

beauty of thy light fed with the clarities.

1730v

aEs

BArtA'n

vfAEBzEB

1735aApdFEBrAh

5. 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;

174024 Or, fed with

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

sEp

1745rAs

hotA

1750@y

shsp

17556. This is the eater of the Tree for whom is poured the running

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

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

SUKTA 8

vAjyE3v

1760n

rTAn

yogA

;

1765an

yftmy

1770mF[h

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

his yokings, Fire the lavish and glorious Godhead.

1775s

nFTo

ddAf

1780yo

jry3Erm

cAztFk

aAh

17852. He brings his perfect leading to the man who has given; he

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

the front of him fed with the offerings.

1790E2yA

doqoqEs

fyt

1795yy

mFyt

18003. He is voiced in his glory and beauty at dusk and dawn in

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

1805BAn

Eco

EvBAyEc

1810a)jAno

ajr

#rEB

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

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

1815putting forth on us a revealing light with his ageless fires.

26 Or, as one seeking for plenitude

27 Or, like the Sun

Hymns of Gritsamada

aEmn

1820vrA6ymEnm

8TAEn

vAv

1825vA

aED

E2yo

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

1830to grow in the way of self-empire; he holds in himself all

glory and beauty.

Erd

1835somy

vAnAm

EtEBv

1840ym

aEryt

mVEB

yAm

1845p

tyt

6. 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.

1850SUKTA 9

hotA

hot

qdn

1855EvdAnv

dFEdvA

;

asdt

1860s

adNDv

tmEtv

EsS

1865sh*

EcEj4o

aEn

18701. 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

is 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

1875the thousand.

tvm

1880n

prpAv

1885qB

toky

1890ntn

nAmy

QCn

1895dFd

boED

gopA

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

1900on the way to a world of greater riches. For the shaping of

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

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

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

EvD

1905m

prm

jm3n

EvD

1910m

tom

#rvr

sDT

ymAd

1915yon

zdAErTA

1920hvF

1925sEm=

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

we 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

1930when thou wert kindled and ablaze.

yjv

hEvqA

yjFyA)C

1935F

ZmEB

ZFEh

1940rAD

VEs

rEyptF

ryFZA

1945v

vcso

mnotA

19504. O Fire, be strong for sacrifice, do worship with my oblation;

swiftly voice my thought towards the gift of the Treasure.

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

riches, thou art the thinker of the brilliant Word.

uBy

1955t

Fyt

vs y

Edv

1960Edv

jAymAny

1965mt

jErtArmn

pEt

1970vpyy

rAy

5. 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;

1975make him a master of the Treasure and of wealth rich in

progeny.

#nAnFk

1980s

Evdo

1985vA

;

aAyEjS

vEt

adNDo

1990gopA

prpA

1995md

EddFEh

20006. O Fire, shine forth with this force29 of thine in us, one perfect

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

sacrifice. 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.

200529 Or, form

Hymns of Gritsamada

SUKTA 10

joh

2010o

aEn

Ept

20150pd

sEm=

2020E2y

vsAno

Evc

2025tA

2vy

2030s

vAjF

1. 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

2035swiftness full of inspiration to be groomed by us, he is the

immortal wide in knowledge.

aEnE

2040cBAn

2045vAEBgF

Evc

2050tA

yAvA

vhto

roEhtA

2055votAzqAh

EvB

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

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

2060tawny horses bear him or two that are red or ruddy in glow.

Oh, one widely borne has been created.

u1AnAyAmjnys

2065t

vdEn

2070fAs

EfErZAyA

Ecd8t

2075mhoEBrprFv

vsEt

20803. They have given him birth in one laid supine who with

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

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

his lights dwells30 even in the destroying Night unenveloped

by the darkness.

2085EjGMy

hEvqA

2090n

EtEyt

vnAEn

2095vA

Etr

2100vysA

yEcSm3

2105rBs

fAnm

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

fronting all the worlds; wide in his horizontal expansion

2110and vast, he is most open and manifest by all he has fed on,

seen in the impetuosity of his force.31

30 Or, shines

31 Or, in the violence of his rapture.

2115Ev

y)c

EjGMy

rsA

2120mnsA

t6j

21252F

hy7Zo

aEnnA

EBm

2130f

tvA

rAZ

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

2135side; let him rejoice in That with a mind that withholds not

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

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

glorious beauty.

2140yA

BAg

shsAno

2145vAd

tAso

2150vd

nmEn

2155j

vcyA

2160c

DnsA

johvFEm

6. Mayst thou take knowledge of thy portion putting forth

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

2165thinking human being with thee for Messenger. I am one

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

my 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

217032 Or, with a mind without the will to injure.

33 Or, with his desire-waking hue,

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