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The Collected Works of Sri Aurobindo & The Mother

Canto 5Hymns of Bharadwaja

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SUKTA 1
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1. O potent Fire, thou wert the first thinker of this thought and
the priest of the call. O Male, thou hast created everywhere
around thee a force invulnerable to overpower every force.
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hotA
ysFdo
yjFyAEn0pd
iqy3FX
sn
t
vA
nr
35Tm
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vyto
mho
rAy
40Ectyto
an
mn
2. And now strong for sacrifice, thou hast taken thy session in
the seat of aspiration, one aspired to, a flamen of the call, an
45imparter of the impulse. Men, building the godheads, have
grown conscious of thee, the chief and first, and followed
to a mighty treasure.
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t
yt
bh
EBv
s y
55#v
rEy
jAg
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so
60an
mn
zftmEn
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vpAvt
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dFEdvA
70sm
3. In thee awake, they followed after the Treasure as in the
wake of one who walks on a path with many possessions,
in the wake of the vast glowing visioned embodied Fire that
casts its light always and for ever.
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vy
nmsA
yt
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2v
aAp3m
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nAmAEn
85Ecd
dEDr
yE.yAEn
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AyA
rZyt
s
d
O
954. Travellers with surrender to the plane of the godhead, seek-
ers of inspired knowledge, they won an inviolate inspiration,
they held the sacrificial Names and had delight in thy happy
vision.
vA
100vD
Et
Ety
p
ET yA
105vA
rAy
uByAso
jnAnAm
v
110AtA
trZ
c
yo
B
EptA
mAtA
sdEmmAn
qAZAm
1205. The peoples increase thee on the earth; both kinds of riches
of men increase thee. O Fire, our pilot through the battle,
thou art the deliverer whom we must know, ever a father
and mother to human beings.
spy
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s
Eyo
EvLvEnho
tA
130md
o
En
qsAdA
yjFyAn
vA
vy
dm
aA
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sm
p
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bADo
145nmsA
sd
m
6. Dear and servable is this Fire in men; a rapturous priest of
the call has taken up his session, strong for sacrifice. Pressing
150the knee may we come to thee with obeisance of surrender
when thou flamest alight in the house.
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vA
vy
yo
n ymn
s
<Ayv
160Imh
d
vyt
v
Evfo
165anyo
dFAno
Edvo
an
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170htA
rocn
n
7. O Fire, we desire thee, the god to whom must rise our cry,
we the right thinkers, the seekers of bliss, the builders of
175the godheads. O Fire, shining with light thou leadest men
through the vast luminous world of heaven.
EvfA
kEv
Ev
180pEt
f
vtFnA
Entofn
v
185qB
cq
ZFnAm
tFqEZEmqyt
pAvk
190rAjtmEn
yjt
ryFZAm
8. To the seer, the Master of creatures who rules over the eter-
nal generations of peoples, the Smiter, the Bull of those that
195see, the mover to the journey beyond who drives us, the
purifying Flame, the Power in the sacrifice, Fire the Regent
of the Treasures!
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so
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Ij
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c
mto
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sEmDA
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s
vAmA
220dDt
vot
9. O Fire, the mortal has done his sacrifice and achieved his
labour who has worked out the gift of the oblation with the
fuel of thy flame and wholly learned the way of the offering
225by his prostrations of surrender; he lives in thy guard and
holds in himself all desirable things.
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25510. O Fire, O Son of Force, may we offer to thy greatness that
which is great, worshipping thee with the obeisance and
the fuel and the offering, the altar and the word and the
utterance. For we would work and strive in thy happy right
thinking, O Fire.
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BAsA
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11. O thou who art filled with inspiration and a passer of
280barriers, O thou who hast extended earth and heaven by
the wideness of thy light and thy inspired discoveries of
knowledge, shine wider yet in us with thy large and solid
and opulent amassings, O Fire.
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12. O Prince of Riches, fix always in us that in which are the
310Gods, settle here many herds for the begotten son. In us
may there be the happy things of true inspiration and the
multitude of the large impulsions from which evil is far.
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rAjEn
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13. O King, O Fire, let me enjoy by thee and thy princehood of
the riches many riches in many ways; for, O Fire of many
340blessings, there are many treasures for thy worshipper in
thee, the King.
SUKTA 2
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Eh
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Emo
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pys
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3601. O Fire, thou travellest like a friend to the glory where is our
home. O wide-seeing Prince of the Treasure, thou nurturest
our inspiration and our growth.
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2. Men who see aspire to thee with the word and the sac-
rifice. To thee comes the all-seeing Horse that crosses the
mid-world, the Horse that no wolf tears.
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385Edvo
nro
y.y
k
t
390EmDt
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mAn
qo
395jn
s
<Ay
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avr
4003. The Men of Heaven with a single joy set thee alight to be
the eye of intuition of the sacrifice when this human being,
this seeker of bliss, casts his offering in the pilgrim Rite.
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yt
dAnv
EDyA
mt
ffmt
410UtF
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b
hto
Edvo
415E7qo
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ho
n
trEt
4204. The mortal should grow in riches who achieves the work by
the Thought for thee, the great giver; he is in the keeping of
the Vast Heaven and crosses beyond the hostile powers and
their evil.
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yt
aAh
Et
EnEfEt
430myo
nft
vyAvt
s
p
435yEt
ymn
ftAy
qm
5. O Fire, when mortal man arrives by the fuel of thy flame to
440the way of the oblation and the sharpening of thy intensities,
he increases his branching house, his house of the hundred
of life.
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6. The smoke from thy blaze journeys and in heaven is out-
stretched brilliant-white. O purifying Fire, thou shinest with
465a flame like the light of the sun.
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Eh
EvLvFX
yo'Es
470Eyo
no
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7. Now art thou here in men, one to be aspired to and a beloved
485guest; for thou art like one delightful and adorable in the
city and as if our son and a traveller of the triple world.
5vA
Eh
d
490oZ
a6ys
'n
vAjF
n
y
pEr6m
v
vDA
500gyo'yo
n
4Ay
Eff
8. O Fire, thou art driven by the will in our gated house like
505a horse apt for our work; thou art by thy nature like a far-
spreading mansion and like a galloper of winding ways and
a little child.
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yA
510EcdQy
tA'n
pf
n
yvs
515DAmA
h
yt
t
ajr
520vnA
v
cEt
Ef8vs
9. O Fire, thou art like a beast in thy pasture and devourest
525even the unfallen things; the lustres of thy blaze tear to pieces
the woodlands, O ageless Flame.
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Eq
VvrFytAmn
530hotA
dm
EvfAm
sm
Do
535Ev
pt
k
Z
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540qv
h ymEHr
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10. O Fire, thou comest a priest of the call into the house of
men that do the Rite of the Path. Make us complete in the
545treasure, O Master of men! O Angiras flame-seer, rejoice in
our oblation.
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no
Emmho
v
d
vAnn
voc
mEt
rodyo
vFEh
vEt
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Edvo
n
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hA
Es
ErtA
tr
m
tA
575tr
m
tvAvsA
tr
m
58011. O Fire, O friendly Light, O Godhead, turn to the Godheads,
mayst thou speak for us the true thought of Earth and
Heaven; move to the peace and the happy abode and the
men of Heaven. Let us pass beyond the foe and the sin and
the stumbling; let us pass beyond these things, pass in thy
585keeping through them safe.
SUKTA 3
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s
qd
590tpA
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jA
uz
6yoEtn
595ft
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vy
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v
600Em
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vzZ
sjoqA
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pAEs
yjsA
mt
m
1. The mortal who longs for the Godhead shall take up his
home with thee, O Fire, he is born into the Truth and a
guardian of the Truth and comes to thy wide Light, — he
in whom thou being Varuna takest with Mitra a common
615delight and thou guardest that mortal, O God, by thy casting
away from him of evil.
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y.
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fmFEB-
D7ArAyAny
ddAf
evA
625cn
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yfsAmj
EnA
ho
630mt
nft
n
d
EP
6352. He has sacrificed with sacrifices, he has achieved his labour
by his works, he has given to the Fire whose boons grow
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ever in opulence. And so there befalls him not the turning
away of the Glorious Ones; evil comes not to him nor the
640insolence of the adversary.
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3. Faultless is thy seeing like the sun’s; terrible marches thy
thought when blazing with light thou neighest aloud like a
670force of battle. This Fire was born in the pleasant woodland
and is a rapturous dweller somewhere in the night.
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Ecd
m
675mEh
vpo
ay
Bsd
vo
ymsAn
aAsA
Evj
hmAn
685prf
n
Ej4A
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Evn
AvyEt
dAz
Dt
4. Fiery-sharp is his march and great his body, — he is like a
695horse that eats and champs with his mouth: he casts his
tongue like an axe to every side, like a smelter he melts the
log that he burns.
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idt
Et
DAdEsyE)CfFt
t
jo'yso
DArAm
EcD
jEtrrEtyo
a8tov
d
q7A
rG
pmj
715hA
5. He sets like an archer his shaft for the shooting, he sharpens
his power of light like an edge of steel. He is the traveller of
the night with rich rapid movements; he has thighs of swift
motion and is like a bird that settles on a tree.
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Bo
n
725Et
vt
u*A
foEcqA
rArpFEt
730EmmhA
n8t
y
Imzqo
yo
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n
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azqo
740yo
EdvA
n
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n
7456. This friendly Light is like a singer of the word and clothes
himself with the Rays, he rhapsodises with his flame. This
is the shining One who journeys by night and by day to the
Gods, the shining Immortal who journeys through the day
to the Gods.
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n
yy
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nvFnod
qA
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aoqDFq
n
not
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n
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pmnA
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7. The cry of him is like the voice of ordaining Heaven;1 he
is the shining Bull that bellows aloud in the growths of the
forest. He goes with his light and his race and his running
and fills Earth and Heaven with his riches; they are like
780wives happy in their spouse.
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yo
y
6y
785EBrk
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Ev
dEvot
v
790EB
f
m
#
fDo
795vA
yo
mztA
tt
-B
v
qo
rBsAno
aOt
8058. He flashes like the lightning with his own proper strengths,
his own founding and helpful illuminations. As if heaven’s
craftsman he has fashioned the army of the Life-Gods and
lightens ablaze in his exultant speed.
SUKTA 4
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shso
yjAEs
evA
no
smnA
smAnAn
f3n
ufto
830yE
d
vAn
1. O Son of Force, O priest of the call, even as always in man’s
forming of the godhead thou sacrificest with his sacrifices,
835sacrifice so for us to the gods today, O Fire, an equal power
to equal powers, one who desires to the gods who desire.
s
no
EvBAvA
840cEZn
vtorEnv
dAz
v
cno
845DAt
Ev
vAy
yo
am
850to
my
q
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dEtETjA
tv
860dA
2. He is wide in his light like a seer of the Day; he is the one we
must know and founds an adorable joy. In him is universal
life, he is the Immortal in mortals; he is the Waker in the
Dawn, our Guest, the Godhead who knows all births that
865are.
1 Or, the cry of him in his worship of sacrifice is like the voice of Heaven;
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n
870yy
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BAsA
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3. The heavens seem to praise his giant might; he is robed in
890lustres and brilliant like the Sun. Ageless the purifying Fire
moves abroad and cuts down even the ancient things of the
Devourer.2
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Eh
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c5
900aEnj
n
qA6mA3m
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sn
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rv
k
915yt
4. O Son, thou art the speaker, thy food is thy seat; Fire from
his very birth has made his food the field of his race. O
Strength-getter, found strength in us! Thou conquerest like
a king and thy dwelling is within, there where there comes
920not any render.
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yo
vArZm3mE1
vAy
rA
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y8t
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5. He eats his food and sharpens his sword of defence; he is
like the Life-God a master of kingdoms and passes beyond
the nights. O Fire, may we pierce through the foe, O thou
945who breakest like a galloping steed all that battle against
thy appointings, hurting around thee our hurters as they
fall upon us.
aA
s
yo
n
BAn
mEYrk
rn
ttT
rodsF
Ev
960BAsA
Eco
nyt
pEr
tmA
965y8t
foEcqA
pm3OEfjo
n
dFyn
9706. O Fire, thou art like the Sun with thy splendid illuminations
and hast wide extended Earth and Heaven with thy light.
Smeared with lustre,3 rich in brilliance he shepherds away
the darknesses and like a son of the desire of the Gods rushes
onward in his march.
9752 Or, the Enjoyer.
3 Or, anointed with light,
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Eh
md
980tmmk
fok
#v
v
mh
985mEh
n
2oyn
id
n
990vA
fvsA
d
vtA
vAy
ZEt
rADsA
n
tmA
10007. We have chosen thee most rapturous with the flaming lights
of thy illuminations; O Fire, hear for us that which is great.
O Godhead of Fire, the most strong Gods fill thee like Indra
with might and like the Life-God with riches.
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no
an
'v
k
vEt
v
Eq
rAy
1015pETEB
py
h
tA
s
Er yo
g
Zt
rAEs
<
md
m
ftEhmA
vFrA
8. O Fire, thou journeyest happily to the treasures by paths
where the wolf rends not, and carriest us beyond all evils.
These high things thou givest to the luminous wise; thou
1035lavishest the bliss on him who voices thee with the word.
May we revel in the rapture, strong with the strength of the
Heroes, living a hundred winters.
SUKTA 5
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1045shso
y
vAnmd
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mEtEBy
1050EvSm
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vvArAEZ
p
1060zvAro
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k
1. I call to you by my thoughts Fire, the youngest of the gods
in whose words is no bale, the Youth, the Son of Force. He
1065is a mind of the knowledge free from all that hurts; his gifts
are many and he journeys to the riches where all boons are.
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vs
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hotdo
vtor
Err
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vA
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dEDr
pAvk
2. O Priest of the call, priest with thy many flame-forces,4 in
1090the night and in the light the Lords of sacrifice cast on thee
their treasures. As in earth are founded all the worlds, they
founded all happinesses in the purifying Fire.
4 Or, forms of flame,
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Edv
sFd
aAs
11005vA
rTFrBvo
vAyA
ZAm
at
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vs
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3. Thou art the Ancient of Days and hast taken thy seat in these
1115peoples and becomest by the will their charioteer of desir-
able things. O Conscient, O thou who knowest all births
that are, thou walkest wide for thy worshipper in unbroken
order to the Treasures.
yo
sn
yo
aEBdAsdn
yo
1125atro
Emmho
vn
yAt
tmjr
1130EBv
qEBtv
v
#tpA
tEpS
1135tpsA
tpvAn
4. O Fire, O friendly Light, O most burning Power, the enemy
who is hidden and would destroy us, the enemy who is
within us and would conquer, leap fiery-forceful with thy
1140affliction of flame and consume him with thy male and
ageless fires.
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BAEt
5. When man gives to thee with the sacrifice and the fuel and
with his spoken words and his chants of illumination, he
becomes, O Immortal, O Son of Force, a mind of knowledge
1170among mortals and shines with the riches and inspiration
and light.
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shvAn
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6. Missioned create that swiftly, O Fire. Force is thine, re-
sist with thy force our confronters. When revealed by thy
lights, thou art formulated by our words, rejoice in the
far-sounding thought of thy adorer.
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t
kAmmn
tvotF
yAm
rEy
rEyv
s
1205vFrm
a
yAm
vAjmEB
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7. O Fire, may we possess in thy guard that high desire, — pos-
sess, O Lord of the treasures, that Treasure and its heroes,
1215possess replenishing thee thy plenitude, possess, O ageless
Fire, thy ageless light.
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1. Man turns with a new sacrifice to the Son of Force when he
desires the Way and the guard. He arrives in his journeyings
1240to the heavenly priest of the call, the priest shining with
light, but black is his march through the forests he tears.
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rocnTA
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2. He grows white and thunderous, he stands in a luminous
1265world; he is most young with his imperishable clamouring
fires. This is he that makes pure and is full of his multitudes
and, even as he devours, goes after the things that are many,
the things that are wide.
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3. O Fire, thy lights range wind-impelled on every side, pure as
thou art pure. Many things they violate and break in their
rashness and enjoy the forests of their pleasure, heavenly
lights, seers of the ninefold ray.
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4. O Fire of the burning purities, pure and flaming-bright are
these thy horses that loosed to the gallop raze the earth.
Then wide is thy wandering and its light shines far as it
drives them up to the dappled Mother’s heights.
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5. Then the tongue of the Bull leaps constantly like the
1350thunderbolt loosed of the God who fights for the herds
of the Light. The destruction of Fire is like the charge of
a hero; he is terrible and irresistible, he hews the forests
asunder.
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nA
pAET
vAEn
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6. Thou hast spread out the earthly speed-ranges by thy light
1380and the violence of thy mighty scourge. Repel by thy forceful
powers all dangerous things; turn to conquer those who
would conquer us, shatter our confronters.
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vyoDAm
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7. O rich in thy brilliances, Fire with thy manifold luminous
mights, rivet to us the rich and various treasure, most richly
diverse, that awakens us to knowledge and founds our ex-
1405panding growth. O delightful God, to him who voices thee
with delightful words the vast delightful wealth and its many
hero keepers!
SUKTA 7
m
DA
n
Edvo
arEt
ET yA
v
#
vAnrm
aA
jAtmEnm
kEv
sm
1425AjmEtET
jnAnAmAs3A
pA
jnyt
d
1. Head of heaven and traveller of the earth a universal Power
was born to us in the Truth, a Guest of men, a seer and
absolute King; the Gods brought to birth universal Fire and
made him in the mouth a vessel of the oblation.
1435nAEB
y.AnA
sdn
ryFZA
mhAmAhAvmEB
nvt
v
#
vAnr
1445rLymvrAZA
y.y
k
t
jnyt
vA
2. All they together came to him, a navel knot of sacrifice, a
house of riches, a mighty point of call in the battle. Chario-
teer of the Works of the way, eye of intuition of the sacrifice,
1455the Gods brought to birth the universal Godhead.
vd
Evo
jAyt
vA6yn
vFrAso
aEBmAEtqAh
v
#
1465vAnr
vmmAs
D
Eh
vs
En
rAjp
hyA?yAEZ
3. O Fire, from thee is born the Seer, the Horse and of thee are
1475the Heroes whose might overcomes the adversary. O King,
O universal Power, found in us the desirable treasures.
vA
Ev
v
t
jAymAn
Eff
n
vA
aEB
s
nvt
5t
EBrm
tvmAyn
v
vAnr
yt
EpordFd
4. O Immortal, all the Gods come together to thee in thy birth
1500as to a new-born child. O universal Power, they travelled
to immortality by the works of thy will when thou leapedst
alight from the Father and Mother.
Hymns of Bharadwaja
v
vAnr
tv
tAEn
v
1510tAEn
mhAyn
nEkrA
dDq
y6jAymAn
1515EpozpT
'Evd
k
t
vy
v>Am
5. O Fire, universal Godhead, none could do violence to the
laws of thy mighty workings because even in thy birth in
the lap of the Father and the Mother thou hast discovered
1525the light of intuition of the Days in manifested things.5
v
#
vAnry
EvEmtAEn
1530csA
sAn
$
En
Edvo
ty
k
t
nA
d
Ev
vA
B
1545vnAED
m
$
D
En
1550vyA
iv
zzh
sP
Ev*
6. The heights of heaven were measured into form by the eye
of this universal Force, they were shaped by the intuition of
the Immortal. All the worlds are upon his head; the seven
far-flowing rivers climbed from him like branches.
yo
rjA
yEmmFt
s
v
#
vAnro
Ev
1570Edvo
rocnA
kEv
pEr
yo
vA
B
vnAEn
pT
1580'dNDo
gopA
am
ty
rEtA
15857. The Universal mighty of will measured into form the king-
doms of middle space; a Seer, he shaped the luminous planes
of Heaven. He has spread around us all these worlds; he is
the guardian of immortality and its indomitable defender.
SUKTA 8
y
v
Zo
azqy
$
sh
n
voc
1600EvdTA
jAtv
ds
v
#
1605vAnrAy
mEtn
ysF
f
Ec
1610som
iv
pvt
cAzrny
1. Now have I spoken aloud the force of the brilliant Male
1615who fills the world, the discoveries of knowledge of the
god who knows all things that are. A new and pure and
beautiful thought is streaming like sacramental wine to Fire,
the universal Godhead.
5 Or, in all sorts of knowledge.
jAymAn
prm
yomEn
v
1625tAyEnv
tpA
art
ytErmEmmFt
s
v
#
vAnro
mEhnA
1635nAkmp
ft
2. Fire is the guardian of the laws of all workings and he kept
safe the laws of his action and motion even in the moment of
his birth in the supreme ether. The Universal mighty of will
1640measured into shape the middle world and touched heaven
with his greatness.
yt|Ad
rodsF
Emo
to'tvA
vdk
Zo66yoEtqA
tm
cm
ZFv
EDqZ
avt
v
#
vAnro
Ev
1660vmD1
v
@ym
3. The Wonderful, the Friend propped up earth and heaven
and made the darkness a disappearing thing by the Light. He
1665rolled out the two minds like skins; the Universal assumed
every masculine might.
apAm
pT
mEhqA
Zt
Evfo
rAjAnm
p
-
Emym
aA
d
to
aEnmBrd
Evvvto
v
vAnr
mAtEr
vA
prAvt
16904. The Great Ones seized him in the lap of the waters and
the Peoples came to the King with whom is the illumining
Word. Messenger of the luminous Sun, Life that expands in
the Mother brought Fire the universal Godhead from the
supreme Beyond.
g
y
g
EvdLy
Zd
yo'n
rEy
yfs
Eh
n ysFm
p y
v
1710rAj3Gf
smjr
nFcA
En
v
vEnn
n
t
jsA
17205. Found for those who from age to age speak the word that
is new, the word that is a discovery of knowledge, O Fire,
their glorious treasure; but cut him in twain who is a voice
of evil, cast him low by thy force of light like a tree with the
thunderbolt, imperishable6 king.
17256 Or, ageless
Hymns of Bharadwaja
amAkmn
mGvs
DAryA'nAEm
1730mjr
s
vFy
m
vy
m
fEtn
shE*Z
v
vAnr
vAjmn
tvoEtEB
6. O Fire, uphold in our masters of the treasure their indestruc-
1745tible7 hero force and unbending might of battle. O universal
Fire, may we by thy safe-keepings conquer the plenitude of
the hundreds and the plenitude of the thousands.
adND
EBtv
1750gopAEBEr
'mAk
pAEh
EqDT
s
rFn
rA
c
no
qA
fDo
an
v
vAnr
c
tArF
tvAn
17707. O our impeller,8 holder of the triple session, shield our lumi-
nous seers with thy indomitable guardian fires. Keep safe,
O Fire, the army of those who have given, O Universal,
hearing our hymn to thee deliver to its forward march.
SUKTA 9
c
k
Zmhrj
n
Ev
vt
t
rjsF
AEB
v
#
vAnro
1790jAymAno
n
rAjA'vAEtr66yoEtqAEntmA
Es
1. A day that is black and a day that is argent bright, two
1795worlds revolve in their different paths by forces that we must
know. Fire, the universal Godhead, like a king that comes
to birth has thrust the Darknesses down by the Light.
nAh
tt
Ev
jAnAMyot
n
y
1805vyEt
smr
'tmAnA
ky
Evt
ih
v8vAEn
pro
vdAyvr
EpA
2. I know not the woof, I know not the warp, nor what is this
web that they weave moving to and fro in the field of their
motion and labour. There are secrets that must be told and
1820of someone the son speaks them here, one highest beyond
through his father lower than he.
7 Or, unaging
8 Or, O doer of sacrifice,
s
tt
s
Ev
jAnAyot
v8vAy
t
TA
vdAEt
_
Eck
tdm
ty
1840gopA
av
crn
pro
ay
p
yn
3. He knows the warp, he knows the woof, he tells in their
time the things that must be spoken. This is the guardian of
1850immortality who wakes to the knowledge of these things;
walking here below he is one highest beyond who sees
through another.
ay
hotA
p
yt
mEmd
6yoEtrm
my
q
ay
s
D
v
aA
Enq1o'my
1870tvA
vD
mAn
4. This is the pristine priest of the call, behold him! this is the
immortal Light in mortals. This is he that is born and grows
1875with a body and is the Immortal seated and steadfast for
ever.
D
v
6yoEtEn
1880Eht
d
fy
k
mno
1885jEvS
ptyvt
Ev
v
d
smns
sk
tA
ek
mEB
Ev
yEt
sAD
19005. An immortal Light set inward for seeing, a swiftest mind
within in men that walk on the way. All the Gods with
a single mind, a common intuition, move aright in their
divergent paths towards the one Will.
Ev
kZA
ptyto
Ev
c
d
6yoEt}
dy
aAEht
Ev
m
mn
crEt
$
raADF
Ek
Ev7LyAEm
1925Ekm
n
$
mEny
6. My ears range wide to hear and wide my eyes to see, wide
1930this Light that is set in the heart; wide walks my mind and
I set my thought afar; something there is that I shall speak;
something that now I shall think.
Hymns of Bharadwaja
Ev
d
vA
anmyn
EByAnAvAmn
1940tmEs
tETvA
sm
v
#
1945vAnro'vt
$
ty
no'myo
'vt
ty
n
7. All the gods were in awe of thee when thou stoodest in the
darkness and bowed down before thee, O Fire. May the
1955Universal Godhead keep us that we may be safe, may the
Immortal keep us that we may be safe.
SUKTA 10
p
ro
md
Ed y
s
v
1965E8t
yEt
y.
aEnmvr
dEDvm
r
u8T
EB
s
no
EvBAvA
vvrA
krEt
1980jAtv
dA
1. When the pilgrim-rite moves on its way, set in your front the
divine, ecstatic Fire, place him in front by your words, the
Flame of the good riddance;9 he is the Knower of all things
1985born; his light shines wide, and he shall make easy for us
the progressions of the sacrifice.
tm
m
p
ZFk
hotrn
aEnEBm
n
iDAn
tom
ymm
#
2000mmt
v
f
$
q
t
n
f
Ec
2010mty
pvt
2. O Fire, kindled by man’s fires, priest of the call who comest
with thy light, priest of the many flame-armies, hearken to
the anthem our thoughts strain out pure to the godhead like
2015pure clarified butter,10 even as Mamata chanted to him her
paean.
9 The word Suvrikti corresponds to the Katharsis of the Greek mystics — the clearance,
riddance or rejection of all perilous and impure stuff from the consciousness. It is Agni
Pavaka, the purifying Fire who brings to us this riddance or purification, “Suvrikti”.
202010 Here we have the clue to the symbol of the “clarified butter” in the sacrifice; like
the others it is used in its double meaning, “clarified butter” or, as we may say, “the
light-offering”.
pFpAy
s
20252vsA
my
q
yo
any
2030ddAf
Ev
u8T
#
EcAEBtm
EtEBE
cfoEcv
jy
sAtA
2040gomto
dDAEt
3. He among mortals is fed on inspiration, the illumined who
gives with his word to the Fire, the seer whom the Fire of the
brilliant illuminations settles by his luminous safeguardings
2045in the conquest of the Pen where are the herds of the Light.
aA
y
pO
jAymAn
2050uvF
d
$
r
d
BAsA
k
ZAvA
aD
Ect
tm
UMyA
yAEtr
2065foEcqA
dd
f
pAvk
4. Fire of the blackened trail in his very birth has filled wide
2070earth and heaven with his far-seeing light. Now has Fire
that makes pure been seen by his bright flame even through
much darkness of the billowing Night.
n
$
c
p
zvAjAEB!tF
an
2080rEy
mGvd
y
c
D
y
rADsA
2vsA
cAyyAs
2090vFy
EB
cAEB
sEt
jnAn
20955. Found, O Fire, for us and the masters of plenty by thy safe-
guardings packed with the plenitudes a treasure of richly
brilliant kinds; for these are they who surpass all others in
their opulence and inspiration and hero-mights.
im
cno
DA
an
ufn
t
aAsAno
j
h
hEvmAn
Br7Aj
q
dEDq
v
E8tmvFvA
jy
gyy
2120sAtO
6. O Fire, yearn to the sacrifice that the bringer of the offering
casts to thee; found the rapture. Hold firm in the Bharad-
wajas the perfect purification; guard them in their seizing of
the riches of the quest.
qA
sFn
Eh
vD
0A
md
m
ftEhmA
vFrA
7. Scatter all hostile things, increase the revealing Word. May
we revel in the rapture, strong with the strength of the
Heroes, living a hundred winters.
2140Hymns of Bharadwaja
SUKTA 11
yjv
hotErEqto
yjFyAnn
2145bADo
mztA
n
y
E8t
no
EmAvzZA
nAsyA
AvA
2155hoAy
p
ETvF
vv
yA
21601. Missioned and strong to sacrifice, offer the sacrifice, Priest
of the call; O Fire, put away from us as if by the applied
force of the Life-gods all that opposes. Turn in their paths
towards our offering Mitra and Varuna and the twin Lords
of the journey and Earth and Heaven.
hotA
md
tmo
no
gtd
vo
EvdTA
my
pAvkyA
j
4A
vE>rAsA'n
2180yjv
tv
tv
vAm
2. To us thou art our priest of the invocation, harmless and per-
2185fect in ecstasy; thou art the god within in mortals that makes
the discoveries of knowledge; thou art the carrier with the
burning mouth, with the purifying flame of oblation. O Fire,
worship with sacrifice thy own body.
DyA
2190EcE=
v
EDqZA
vE
d
2195vA)jm
g
Zt
yjy
#
EpSo
aEHrsA
y=
Evo
QCdo
BnEt
r
B
3. In thee the understanding is full of riches and it desires the
gods, the divine births, that the word may be spoken and
the sacrifice done, when the singer, the sage, wisest of the
Angirases chants his honey-rhythm in the rite.
2215aEd
tt
vpAko
EvBAvA'n
yjv
2220rodsF
u!cF
aAy
n
y
2225nmsA
rAth yA
a)jEt
s
ys
2230p)c
jnA
4. He has leaped into radiance and is wise of heart and wide of
light; O Fire, sacrifice to the largeness of Earth and Heaven.
All the five peoples lavish the oblation with obeisance of
2235surrender and anoint as the living being Fire the bringer of
their satisfactions.
v
)j
h
2240y3msA
bEh
rnAvyAEm
*
G
2245tvtF
s
v
E8t
aMyE
sdn
p
ET yA
a2AEy
s
$
y
n
5. When the sacred grass has been plucked with prostration
of surrender to the Fire, when the ladle of the purification
full of the light-offering has been set to its labour, when
the home has been reached in the house of Earth and the
2265sacrifice lodged like an eye in the sun, —
dfyA
n
p
v
2270ZFk
hotd
v
EBrn
aEnEBErDAn
2275rAy
s
$
no
shso
2280vAvsAnA
aEt
*s
m
v
nA
h
6. O Son of Force, O Fire, kindling with the gods thy fires,
Priest of the call, priest with thy many flame-armies, dis-
2290pense to us the Treasures; shining with light let us charge
beyond the sin and the struggle.
SUKTA 12
my
hotA
roZ
bEh
qo
rA0Entody
2300rodsF
yjy
#
ay
s
$
n
shs
-tAvA
$
rAt
s
$
n
foEcqA
ttAn
1. In the midmost of the gated house Fire, the Priest of the
2320call, the King of the sacred seat and the whip of swiftness,
to sacrifice to Earth and Heaven! This is the Son of Force in
whom is the Truth; he stretches out from afar with his light
like the sun.
aA
2325yEmn
v
vpAk
yj
yd
2330rAjsv
tAt
v
n
O
2335EqDTttzqo
n
j
ho
h yA
2340mGAEn
mAn
qA
yjy
#
23452. When a man sacrifices in thee, O King, O Lord of sacrifice,
when he does well his works in the wise and understanding
Fire like Heaven in its all-forming labour, triple thy session;
thy speed is as if of a deliverer, when thou comest to give
the sacrifice whose offerings are man’s human fullnesses.
2350Hymns of Bharadwaja
t
EjSA
yyArEtv
n
2355rAV
todo
avn
n
v
2360DsAno
aOt
ad
oGo
n
EvtA
c
tEt
m3myo
aoqDFq
3. A splendour in the forest, most brilliant-forceful is the speed
of his journeying; he is like a whip on the path and ever he
grows and blazes. He is like a smelter who does hurt to none;
2375he is the Immortal who wakes of himself to knowledge: he
cannot be turned from his way mid the growths of the earth.
sAmAk
EBr
trF
f
$
q
#rEn
dm
aA
jAtv
dA
v3o
vvn
5vA
nAvo
Ept
v
jAryAEy
y.
4. Fire, the knower of all things born, is hymned by our paeans
in the house as if in one that walks on the way. He feeds
on the Tree and conquers by our will like a war-horse; this
shining Bull is adored by us with sacrifice like a father.
mAy
pnyEt
BAso
v
yt
tdn
yAEt
p
2415LvFm
so
y
yd
o
2420EvEqto
DvFyAn
Zo
n
tAy
2425rEt
DvA
rAV
5. And now his splendours chant aloud and he hews with ease
and walks along the wideness of the earth. He is rapid in
2430his race and in a moment is loosed speeding to the gallop:
he is like a thief that runs; his light is seen beyond the desert
places.
s
v
av
n
EndAyA
Ev
EBrn
aEnEBErDAn
v
Eq
2445rAyo
Ev
yAEs
d
QC
md
m
ftEhmA
s
2455vFrA
6. O War-horse, us from the bondage deliver, kindling, O Fire,
with all thy fires; for thou travellest to the Riches and scat-
terest the forces of affliction and sorrow. May we revel in
the rapture, strong with the strength of the Heroes, living a
2460hundred winters.
SUKTA 13
vd
Ev
vA
Bg
sOBgAyn
Ev
yEt
2470vEnno
n
vyA
F
rEyvA
v
t
$
y
2480Edvo
v
ErFX
yo
rFEtrpAm
24851. O felicitous Fire, of thee are all felicities and they grow wide
from thee like branches from a tree. For quickly come, in
the piercing of the Python adversary, the Riches and the
desirable plenty and the Rain of Heaven and the flowing of
the Waters.
Bgo
n
aA
Eh
2495r&Emq
pEr6m
v
yEs
dmvcA
Emo
n
b
ht
2505-tyA'Es
1A
vAmy
d
v
$
r
2. Thou art Bhaga of the felicities and thou pourest on us the
ecstasy and takest up thy house in us, a pervading presence
2515and a potent splendour. O divine Fire, like Mitra thou art a
feeder on the vast Truth and the much joy and beauty.
s
spEt
fvsA
2520hEt
v
mn
Evo
Ev
B
Et
vAjm
y
c
t
-tjAt
rAyA
2535sjoqA
nP
ApA
EhnoEq
3. O Fire born of the Truth, O thinker and knower, when
2540consenting with the Child of the Waters thou takest pleasure
in a man and speedest him with the Treasure, he becomes a
master over beings and in his might slays the Python adver-
sary and becomes a seer and carries out with him the riches
of the Dweller in the Cave.
s
$
no
shso
2550gFEB
z8T
#y
.
#m
EnEfEt
v
AnV
Ev
s
d
v
Et
2565vArmn
D1
DAy
pyt
vs y
4. O Son of Force, the mortal who has reached to the intensity
of thee by the word and the utterance and the altar and the
sacrifice, draws to him sufficiency of every kind of wealth,
O divine Fire, and walks on the way with his riches.
2575Hymns of Bharadwaja
tA
n
y
aA
2580sO2vsA
s
vFrA'n
s
$
shs
p
ys
DA
ZoEq
yQCvsA
B
$
p
vo
vyo
v
2600kAyAry
js
ry
5. O Fire, O Son of Force, found for men, that they may grow,
happy riches of inspiration with strength of its hero keepers,
2605— many herds, thy creation in thy might, but now a food
for the wolf and the foe and the destroyer.
vwA
s
$
shso
no
EvhAyA
an
2615tok
tny
vAEj
no
dA
vAEBgF
EB
rEB
p
Et
m
yA
md
ftEhmA
s
vFrA
6. O Son of Force, become the vast speaker within us; give
2635us the Son of our begetting, give us all that is packed with
the plenitudes; let me enjoy by my every word satisfaction
of fullness. May we revel in the rapture, strong with the
strength of the Heroes, living a hundred winters.
SUKTA 14
2640anA
yo
myo
d
vo
2645EDy
j
joq
DFEtEB
Bs3
p
$
y
iq
rFtAvs
1. When mortal man by his musings comes to take pleasure of
work and thought in the Fire, he shines with light and is one
supreme; he receives the impulsion that leads him to safety.
2660aEnErE=
c
tA
aEnv
Dtm
2665-Eq
aEn
hotArmF0t
y.
q
qo
Evf
2. The Fire is the thinker and knower, the Fire is a mighti-
est disposer of works and a seer. To Fire the priest of the
2675invocation the peoples of men aspire in their sacrifices.
nAnA
Vn
'vs
pD
rAyo
ay
t
$
to
dy
mAyvo
v
#
sFto
av
tm
26953. Of many kinds are they who seek thy safeguard and strive
with the foe for his riches; men breaking through the De-
stroyer seek to overcome his lawless strength by the order
of their works.
aEnrJsAm
2700tFqh
vFr
ddAEt
spEtm
yy
2705sEt
fvs
s
cE
fvo
2710EByA
4. The Fire gives to man a Master of beings, a Warrior who
overbears the charge of the foe and wins the Waters; the
enemies are afraid at his very sight and scatter in panic from
his puissance.
2715aEnEh
EvwnA
Endo
d
vo
m
zyEt
shAvA
yyAv
rEyvA
j
vv
t
27305. The Fire is the godhead who rescues mortal man by knowl-
edge from the Binder. A forceful thing is the treasure of
his riches, unencircled by the adversary, unbesieged in its
plenitudes.
aQCA
Emmho
d
v
d
2740vAnn
voc
s
mEt
rodyo
2745vFEh
vEt
s
EEt
Edvo
^
n
E7qo
a
Es
d
ErtA
tr
tA
tr
m
tvAvsA
m
6. O Fire, O friendly Light, O Godhead turn to the Godheads,
mayest thou speak for us the true thought of Earth and
Heaven; march in peace to the happy abode and the Men
2770of Heaven. Let us pass safe beyond the foe and the sin and
the stumbling.
Let us pass beyond these things, pass in thy keeping
through them safe.
Hymns of Bharadwaja
2775SUKTA 15
imm
$
q
vo
2780aEtETm
qb
D
Ev
vAsA
2785EvfA
pEtm
)js
EgrA
v
2790tFE:vo
jn
qA
kEQcdA
f
2795Ec6yo
k
EcdE1
gBo
ydQy
1. Thou must crown with the word the guest who wakes from
sleep with the dawn, Master of all these peoples. He is pure
from his very birth and surely he comes to us from heaven
in his time; long too, a child from the womb, he feeds on all
2805that is unfallen.
Em
n
y
s
2810EDt
B
gvo
dD
v
2815nptAvFX
ym
$
v
foEcqm
v
s
Fto
vFth y
t
fEtEBm
hys
Edv
2830Edv
2. The Bhrigus set in the Tree the godhead of our aspiration
with his high flame of light like a friend well-confirmed in
his place. And now, O Wonderful, well-pleased in him who
has cast to thee the offering, thou art magnified by wordings
2835of thy power from day to day.
s
v
dyAv
ko
Do
B
$
ry
2845pryAtry
tzq
rAy
s
$
shso
my
vA
CEd
QC
vFth yAy
sTo
Br7AjAy
3. Be in us the one whom the wolf cannot rend, the god who
makes grow the discernment, makes grow the supreme inner
Warrior who delivers.11 O Son of Force, extend in mortals
the Riches, the wide-spreading House, for the caster of the
2865offering, for Bharadwaja the wide-spreading House.
tAn
vo
aEtET
vZ
2870rmEn
hotAr
mn
q
vvrm
n
vcs
s
v
2880E8tEBh
yvAhmrEt
d
vm
)js
28854. Crown must thou the guest shining with light, the Male of
the Sun-world, the priest of man’s invocation who makes
11 Or, be our deliverer from the enemy beyond and within us.
perfect the Rite of the Path. Crown with your acts of
purification the Seer whose speech has its home in the
2890Light,12 the Carrier of offerings, the Traveller, the Godhead
of Fire.
pAvkyA
yE
ctyyA
pA
Amn
zzc
uqso
BAn
nA
t
$
n
n
yAm3
tfy
$
rZ
aA
yo
Z
n
tt
qAZo
2920ajr
5. He shines with the light that makes pure, the light that
awakens to knowledge, shines in beauty on the earth as if
with a splendour of Dawn. He is as if one hewing his way
in the march and battle of the shining Horse; he is like one
2925athirst and luminously blazing, the ageless Fire.
aEnmEn
v
sEmDA
d
2930vyt
Ey
Ey
vo
aEtET
ZFqEZ
up
vo
gFEB
t
EvvAst
d
vo
v
q
vnt
Eh
2950vAy
d
vo
d
v
vnt
Eh
no
d
6. Fire and again Fire set to work with your fuel, chant with
your speech the dear, the beloved Guest. Approach and set
the Immortal alight with your words; a god he enjoys in the
gods our desirable things, — a god, he enjoys our works in
2965the gods.
sEm=mEn
sEmDA
EgrA
g
f
Ec
pAvk
p
avr
D
vm
Ev
2980hotAr
p
zvArmd
h
kEv
<
#rFmh
jAtv
dsm
29907. I chant the Fire that is kindled with the word for fuel, the
Fire that is pure and makes pure; Fire that is steadfast for
ever and marches in front in the Rite of the Path. We desire
with his felicities the Illumined, the priest of the call, the
harmless, rich with many blessings, the Seer who knows all
2995births that are.
12 Or, has its home in the Heaven, or, houses the Light,
Hymns of Bharadwaja
vA
d
tmn
am
t
y
y
g
h yvAh
dEDr
3010pAy
mFX
ym
d
vAs
mtA
s
c
jAg
EvB
Ev
pEt
nmsA
q
Edr
8. O Fire, they have set thee here the Messenger, the Immortal
in generation after generation, the Carrier of offerings, pro-
3030tector of man and the Godhead of his prayer. Gods alike and
mortals sit with obeisance before the all-pervading Master
of the peoples, the ever-wakeful Fire.
EvB
$
3035q3n
uByA
;
an
v
d
$
to
d
3045vAnA
rjsF
smFys
yt
t
3050DFEt
s
mEtmAv
ZFmh
'D
nEv!T
Efvo
Bv
9. O Fire, according to the laws of thy works thou pervadest
3060either race; thou art the messenger of the Gods and rangest
both the worlds. Since we have accepted thy thinking and
the right understanding that is thine, be to us our triple
armour of defence and benignant helper.
t
tFk
s
d
f
3070v)cmEv7A
so
Evd
r
sp
s
yd
Ev
vA
nAEn
Ev7An
h ymEnrm
t
voct
/
10. May we who know not come into touch with this great
knower with his true front and just walk and perfect vi-
3090sion. May he who knows all manifested things13 do sacrifice
for us, may Fire voice our offering in the world of the
Immortals.
tmn
pAy
t
EppEq
yt
aAnV
3100kvy
f
$
r
DFEtm
3105y.y
vA
EnEfEt
voEdEt
vA
3110tEmt
p
ZE
fvsot
rAyA
311511. O heroic Fire, thou guardest and bringest safe to the other
side the man who has reached to the Thought for thee
the Seer and achieved the intensity of the sacrifice or its
ascending movement; thou fillest him with might and riches.
13 Or, all kinds of knowledge
3120vmn
vn
yto
En
pAEh
n
shsAv3vAt
s
vA
3130vmvd y
t
pAT
s
rEy
hyA?y
sh*F
12. O Fire that hast the Force, guard us from fault, guard from
one who would subject us. May there come to thee along
3140the path full of destructions the thousandfold delectable
treasure.
aEnho
tA
g
3145hpEt
s
rAjA
Ev
vA
d
jEnmA
jAtv
dA
vAnAm
t
yo
myA
yEjS
s
yjtAm
tAvA
316513. Fire, the priest of the invocation, is a king and the Master in
our house; all the births he knows, he is of all things born
the Knower. He is strong to sacrifice and the Truth is in him;
let him do sacrifice for gods and mortals.
an
Evfo
avry
hot
pAvkfoc
~
Eh
y6vA
-tA
3180yjAEs
mEhnA
Ev
yd
B
h
yA
vh
yEvS
t
a
14. O Fire, O Light that makest pure, O summoning priest
of man’s sacrifice, today when thou comest as a doer of
3195worship, today when thou growest all-pervading in thy
greatness and offerest the things of the Truth for sacrifice,
today carry with thee our offerings, O ever-youthful Fire,
even the truths that are thine.
aEB
Es
s
EDtAEn
Eh
3205Hyo
En
vA
dDFt
rodsF
3210yjy
#
avA
no
mGvn
3215vAjsAtAvn
Ev
vAEn
d
ErtA
m
tA
tr
m
3225tvAvsA
tr
m
15. Open thy manifesting eye on our firm-based pleasant things;
let a man set thee within him to sacrifice to Earth and
3230Heaven. Protect us, O King of Riches, in our conquest of
the plenitudes; O Fire, may we pass safe through all the
stumbling-places.
Let us pass beyond these things, pass in thy keeping
through them safe.
3235Hymns of Bharadwaja
an
Ev
v
EB
3240vnFk
d
v
#!ZA
vt
sFd
yoEnm
k
lAEyn
tvt
sEv
y.
ny
3255yjmAnAy
sAD
16. O Fire with thy strong armies of flame, sit with the gods,
first of them all, in the wool-flecked lair where the Nest is
ready and the light-offering; lead for the doer of the rite, for
3260the presser of the wine rightly on its paths the sacrifice.
imm
ymTv
vdEn
mTEt
Ds
ym€
$
ytmAny3m
r
yA yA y
17. This is that Fire whom the ordainers of works churn out
like Atharvan of old; a Power unbewildered, they led him
3275in his zigzag walk from the dusky Nights.
jEnvA
d
vvFty
sv
3280tAtA
vty
aA
d
vAn
3285vLym
tA
;
-tAv
Do
d
v
q
Epp
18. Be born to us in our all-forming labour for the coming of
the Gods, for our peace. Bring the gods to us, the Immortals,
the builders of the growing Truth; give to our sacrifice touch
on the gods.
3300vym
vA
g
hpt
jnAnAmn
3305akm
sEmDA
b
htm
aT
Er
no
gAh
pyAEn
Etm
n
nt
jsA
EffAED
19. O Fire, O man’s master of the house, we have fed thee with
our fuel and made thee a vastness; let the works of the
house-master be unhalting, make us utterly keen with thy
3325intense force of light.
SUKTA 16
vmn
y.AnA
hotA
v
qA
Eht
d
EBmA
n
q
jn
33401. O Fire, thou art set here in all as the priest of the call in the
sacrifice, set by the gods in the human being.
s
no
md
3345AEBrvr
Ej4AEBy
jA
mh
aA
vAn
vE
yE
c
33552. Offer worship with thy rapturous tongues in the Rite of
the Path to the Great Ones. Bring the gods to us, do them
sacrifice.
v
TA
v
Do
avn
pT
d
vA)jsA
an
y.
s
5to
3. O ordainer of works, mighty of will, by thy revealing light14
in the sacrifice thou knowest the tracks of the gods and their
3375highways.
vAmF0
aD
E7tA
Brto
3380vAEjEB
f
nm
Ij
y.
yE.ym
4. Now has the Bringer of the Treasure with his horses of
swiftness aspired to thee for a twofold bliss; he has sacrificed
in the sacrifices to the king of sacrifice.
3390vEmmA
vAyA
p
z
EdvodAsAy
vt
Br7AjAy
dAf
q
34005. O Fire, for the Servant of Heaven15 who presses the wine,
for Bharadwaja the giver of the offering, the multitude of
these desirable things!
v
d
to
amy
aA
vhA
# y
jnm
f
@vn
3415Evy
s
Etm
6. Thou art the Immortal Messenger; lend ear to the laud of
the seer and bring the Divine People.
342014 Or, with thy straight going
15 Divodasa
Hymns of Bharadwaja
vAmn
vAyo
3425mtA
so
d
vvFty
y.
d
vmF0t
7. Men deeply meditating aspire to thee that the godheads may
come to them; mortals they aspire to the God in the sacrifice.
yE
s
d
fm
5t
s
dAnv
Ev
j
qt
kAEmn
8. Bring into sacrifice thy perfect sight and thy will; rich are
3450thy gifts and in thee is the joy of all who desire.
v
hotA
mn
Eh
vE>rAsA
Evd
r
an
Edvo
Evf
9. Thou art the priest of the call set here in thinking man, his
carrier with mouth of flame wiser in knowledge than he. O
3465Fire, sacrifice to the people of heaven.
an
aA
yAEh
vFty
ZAno
h ydAty
En
hotA
3475sEs
bEh
Eq
/
10. Come, O Fire, for the advent; voiced by the word, come for
3480the gift of the oblation: sit, the priest of our invocation, on
the grass of the altar.
t
vA
sEmEYrEHro
t
n
vD
yAmEs
hQCocA
yEvS
y
11. O Angiras, we make thee to grow by our fuel and our of-
3495fering of the clarity; flame into a vast light, O ever-youthful
Fire.
s
n
p
2vA?ymQCA
d
v
EvvAsEs
hdn
s
vFy
m
351012. O God, O Fire, thou illuminest towards us a wide light of
inspired knowledge and the vastness of a perfect force.
vAmn
p
krAdyTvA
3515EnrmTt
m
$
9o
Ev
vAGt
13. O Fire, Atharvan churned thee out from the Lotus,16 from
the head of every chanting sage.
tm
dyR
R
Eq
p
aTv
Z
v
hZ
r
drm
14. And Dadhyang too, the Seer, Atharvan’s son, kindled thee a
slayer of the Python adversary and shatterer of his cities.
vA
pALyo
v
qA
3545smFD
dy
htmm
Dn
jy
rZ
15. Thee the Bull of the paths set full alight, most mighty to slay
the Destroyers, a conqueror of riches in battle upon battle.
eV
q
b
vAEZ
t
iT
trA
Egr
eEBv
s
id
EB
16. Come to me and let me voice to thee, O Fire, true other
3570words; for thou growest by these moon-powers of the Wine.
y
8v
c
t
3575mno
d
dDs
u1rm
tA
k
Zvs
17. Wheresoever is thy mind and thou plantest that higher-
discernment, there thou makest thy house.
3585nEh
t
p
$
t
3590mEpd
B
v3
mAnA
vso
3595aTA
d
vo
vnvs
18. O Prince of Riches, the fullness of thy treasures meets not
3600the eye and it is for the few;17 take then joy in our work.
16 Or, on Pushkara; or, the Lotus of the head of every chanting sage.
17 Or, let not the fullness of thy treasures meet the eye only of the few;
Hymns of Bharadwaja
aAEnrgAEm
3605BArto
v
hA
p
zc
EdvodAsy
spEt
19. Fire of the Bringers is approached by us, the slayer of the
Python adversary conscious with a multiple knowledge, the
3615Servant of Heaven’s Fire, master of beings.
s
Eh
Ev
vAEt
3620pAET
vA
rEy
dAfmEhvnA
vv3vAto
t
/
20. This is he that unconquered, unoverthrown shall by his
greatness win and give to us a treasure beyond all earthly
3630things.
s
&v3vFysA'n
<
n
ytA
b
ht
ttT
3640BAn
nA
21. O Fire, by a new illumination like the old and joining it,
thou hast stretched out the Vast with thy light.18
v
3645sKAyo
any
tom
y.
c
Z
yA
ac
gAy
v
Ds
22. O friends, offer to the impetuous violence of Fire the hymn
and the sacrifice; sing the illumining verse, chant to the
3660Ordainer of works.
s
Eh
yo
mAn
y
gA
sFd=otA
kEv5t
$
t
c
h yvAhn
367523. This is he that must sit through the human generations,
man’s Priest of the call with the seer-will, the Messenger, the
Carrier of the oblation.
18 Or, built the Vast with thy light.
tA
3680rAjAnA
f
Ecv
tA''EdyAn
mAzt
3685gZm
vso
yFh
rodsF
24. O Prince of the Treasure, do worship here with sacrifice to
3690the Two Kings who are ever pure in their works, to the sons
of the Indivisible Mother, to the company of the Life-Gods,
to Earth and Heaven.
vvF
t
s
d
EErqyt
myA
Ujo
npAdm
ty
25. O Fire, O Child of Energy, full of riches is thy vision for the
3705mortal, the vision of the immortal, and it imparts to him its
impulse.
5vA
dA
at
3710So'
vA
vvs
r
8ZA
aAnAf
s
v
E8tm
372026. Let the giver be the best by work of the will; today win-
ning thee let him become one overflowing with affluence: a
mortal, he shall taste the perfect purification.
t
t
votA
iqyto
Ev
vmAy
3730trto
ayo
arAtFv
vto
ayo
3735arAtF
27. These are thy men whom thou guardest, O Fire, and they
find the speed of thy impulse and move to universal Life,
fighters piercing through the armies of the enemy, fighters
conquering the armies of the enemy.19
3740aEnEtm
n
foEcqA
yAsd
Ev
yEZm
aEnno
vnt
rEym
375028. Let the Fire with his keen energy of light overwhelm every
devourer; Fire conquers for us the riches.
19 Or, piercing through the enemies who war against them, conquering the enemies who
war against them.
Hymns of Bharadwaja
vFr
rEymA
Br
jAtv
Evcq
Z
jEh
rA
s
5to
29. O wide-seeing Fire, God who knowest all births that are,
bring to us the treasure with its strength of the Heroes; O
3770mighty of will, slay the demon keepers.
v
n
pAV
hso
3775jAtv
do
aGAyt
rA
Zo
Zkv
/
30. O God who knowest all births that are, guard us from sin
and from him that worketh calamity; O Seer of the Word,
3785protect us.
yo
no
an
d
v
aA
mto
vDAy
3795dAfEt
tmA3
pAV
hs
31. The mortal of evil movements who gives us over to the
3800stroke, guard us, O Fire, from him and his evil.
v
t
d
v
3805Ej4yA
pEr
bADv
d
k
mto
yo
no
EjGA
3815sEt
32. O God, repulse on every side with thy tongue of flame that
doer of wickedness; oppose the mortal who would slay us.
Br7AjAy
sT
yQC
shy
an
vr
vs
33. O forceful Fire, extend to Bharadwaja the peace with its
wideness;20 extend to him the desirable riches.
aEnv
3830AEZ
jnd
d
EvZy
Ev
3835pyyA
sEm=
f
aAh
t
384034. Let Fire the seeker of the treasure kindled and brilliant and
20 Or, the wide-spreading house of refuge;
fed with our offerings slay with his flame of illumination the
encircling Adversaries.
gB
3845mAt
Ept
EptA
EvEd
tAno
sFd3
ty
yoEnmA
35. Let him become the father of the Father in the womb of
3855the Mother; let him break out into lightnings in the Im-
perishable, let him take his seat in the native home of the
Truth.
b
jAvdA
jAtv
do
Evcq
Z
yd
dFdyd
EdEv
36. O wide-seeing Fire, God who knowest all births that are,
3870bring us the Word with its issue, the Word whose light shines
in Heaven.
up
vA
r@vs
f
yvt
shk
t
ss
6mh
Egr
37. O thou who art made by our force, we come to thee of the
3885rapturous vision bringing our offerings for thy pleasure and
let forth towards thee, O Fire, our words.
up
QCAyAEmv
G
rgm
fm
t
vym
Ehr@ys
d
f
38. Like men that take refuge in the shade, we have arrived to
3900the refuge of thy peace, there where thou blazest with light
and art a vision of gold, O Fire.
y
ug
iv
hA
Etmf
Ho
n
sg
an
p
ro
3915zroEjT
39. Thou art like a fierce fighter shooting arrows and like a
sharp-horned Bull; O Fire, thou breakest the cities.
Hymns of Bharadwaja
aA
ht
n
KAEdn
Eff
3925jAt
n
EbB
Et
EvfAmEn
3930vvrm
/
40. They bring him like a beast of prey, like a new-born child
they bear him in their hands, Fire that effects the Rite of the
Path for the peoples.
v
d
vvFty
BrtA
Ev1mm
aA
v
yonO
qFdt
41. Bring to us this great discoverer of riches, bring the god for
the coming of the gods; let him take his seat in his own
native home.
jAt
jAtv
dEs
Ey
3955EffFtAEtETm
yon
aA
g
hpEtm
396042. In the felicitous Fire that knows all things born the Master
of your House is born to you; sharpen to his intensity the
beloved guest.
an
y
3965LvA
Eh
y
tvA'
vAso
v
sADv
ar
vhEt
3975myv
43. O God, O Fire, yoke those horses of thine that do well the
work and can bear thee sufficient for our passion.
aQCA
no
3980yAVA
vhA'EB
yA
Es
vFty
d
vAsompFty
44. Come to us, bear towards us the Gods that they may eat
of21 our pleasant offerings and drink our Soma wine.
399021 Or, come to
udn
BArt
mdj*
Z
3995dEv
tt
focA
Ev
BAVjr
400045. O Fire of the Bringers, luminously lightening with thy inces-
sant flame upward burn; spread wide thy light, O ageless22
power.
vFtF
yo
v
mto
d
vy
4010dEnmF0FtAvr
hEvmAn
hotAr
syyj
rodyoz1Anhto
4015nmsA
EvvAs
t
46. Let the mortal who would serve with his works the God in
the advent, aspire bringing his offering to the Fire in the Rite
4020of the Path; let him with uplifted23 hands and with obeisance
of surrender make shine the summoning Priest of Earth and
Heaven, the fire of true sacrifice.24
aA
t
-cA
hEv}
dA
t
4030BrAmEs
t
t
Bvt
$
-qBAso
vfA
ut
47. We bring to thee, O Fire, by the illumining word an offering
4040that is shaped by the heart. Let there be born from it thy
impregnating bulls and thy heifers.
aEn
d
vAso
4045aEg
yEmDt
v
htmm
y
vs
$
yAB
tA
[hA
rA
Es
vAEjnA
406048. The Gods kindle, most strong to slay the Python adversary,
the supreme Fire, the Horse of swiftness by whom the Riches
are brought and pierced the demon keepers.
22 Or, imperishable
23 Or, outstretched
406524 Or, who worships the Truth with sacrifice.