Canto 8Mandala One
Book 2. cover for HMF=16.pdf
MADHUCHCHHANDAS VAISHWAMITRA
SUKTA 1
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1. The Fire I pray, the divine vicar of the sacrifice and ordinant
of the rite, the Summoner (or, priest of the offering) who
most founds the ecstasy.
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302. The Fire, desirable to the ancient seers, so even to the new,
— may he come to us with the gods.
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35v
Edv
Edv
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403. By the Fire one obtains a wealth that increases day by day,
glorious and full of hero-powers.
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50d
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4. O Fire, the pilgrim sacrifice which thou encompassest on
55every side, reaches the gods.
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Other Hymns to Agni
5. Fire, priest of the call, the seer-will rich in brilliant inspira-
tions, may he come to us, a god with the gods.
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vmn
Bd
kEryEs
75tv
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tt
symEHr
6. O Fire, the happy good that thou wilt create for the giver, is
80That Truth of thee, O Angiras.
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90emEs
7. To thee, O Fire, day by day, in the dawn and in the dusk,
we come bringing to thee by the thought our obeisance,
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8. To thee, who rulest the sacrifices of the Way, the shining
Guardian of the Truth, growing in thy own home.
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9. O Fire, be easy of access to us like a father to his son; cleave
to us for our weal.
120MEDHATITHI KANWA
SUKTA 12
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1. We choose Agni, the summoner, the all-knowing, the mes-
senger, the will effective of this sacrifice.
Mandala One
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2. To the Lord of the creatures, the bearer of our offerings, the
150beloved of Many, to every flame the sacrificers ever call with
hymns that summon the Gods, One in whom are many dear
things.
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3. O Fire, thou being born hither bear the Gods for the sac-
rificer who spreads the holy seat, thou art our desirable
170summoning priest.
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4. O Fire, when thou goest as our envoy, awaken them up who
desire our offerings. Take thy seat with the Gods on the holy
grass.
190G
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Et
m
195Erqto
dh
an
v
rEvn
2005. O Fire, thou who art called by the offerings of clarity, thou
shining one, do thou oppose and burn down the haters that
confine.
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vA
h yvAX
j
2104Ay
6. By the fire is the fire perfectly kindled, the seer, the lord of
the house, the youth, the bearer of offering whose mouth
receives the offerings.
Other Hymns to Agni
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vmmFvcAtnm
7. To the divine flame, the seer, him whose law of being is the
Truth, the shining one, the destroyer of all evils, approach
225and chant the hymn of praise.
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8. O Flame, O divine messenger, the lord of the offerings who
waits on thee, of him become the protector.
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9. He who with the offerings approaches the divine force, for
the Birth of the Gods, O Purifier, on him have grace.
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10. O shining flame, thou who purifiest, hither bear the Gods
270to our offerings and to our sacrifice.
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11. Thou adored by our fresh Gayatri rhythms bring for us the
felicity and force full of hero’s strength.
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12. O Fire, with thy lustres white, and all thy divine hymns
that summon the Gods, come and accept this hymn that we
affirm.
300Mandala One
SUKTA 13
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1. O Fire! perfectly kindled, bear the gods to him who has the
offerings, O Thou who purifiest! Thou summoner! sacrifice
to the gods.
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3352. O son of the body! Now make the sacrifice honied for the
gods (or full of honey among the gods) for their enjoyment,
O seer.
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3. Him, the beloved, I call hither to this sacrifice, he who
creates the offerings, possessed of honied tongue.
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aA
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360aEs
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3654. O Fire! Thou who art adored, bring here the gods in thy
happiest car; (for) thou art the summoner established by
man.
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tp
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3805. O Thinkers! spread you the holy seat continuous and true
in order, sprinkled with clear offerings (of clarified butter),
to where is the vision of immortality.
[Incomplete]
Other Hymns to Agni
385SUKTA 14
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sompFty
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1. With all these gods, O Agni, thou who art the activity of
speech, arrive and do thy work.
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2. On thee, O Agni, the Kanwas have called, for thee, O mas-
420ter of wisdom, their movements of understanding become
articulate; arrive, O Agni, with the gods.
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4353. On Indra and Vayu, Brihaspati, on Mitra and Agni, Pushan,
Bhaga, the Adityas and the Marut host.
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EB
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4. For you the nectar streams are filled in, rapturous and
450maddening, dripping sweetness, into their vessel they settle
down.
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5. Thee the Kanwas protected adore, when they have mani-
fested the flame, hold the offering and have set their array.
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6. Shining of flank, yoked to the mind are the bearers that bear
thee and bear to us the gods to drink the Soma-wine.
Mandala One
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Do'n
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4907. Make them active to the Yajna, O Agni, they increase by
truth, they have with them their female powers; make them
drink the sweetnesses, O keen of tongue.
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495y
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5058. Those that are active to Yajna, those that are adorable, let
both of them drink with thy tongue, O Agni, the heady
sweetness of the wine.
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vA
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hot
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vEt
5259. From the world of the lustre of the sun the seer, the priest
of the offering bringeth the gods that wake to the dawn.
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v
EB
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vAy
535nA
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54010. With all of them, O Agni, drink thou the sweetness of the
Soma-wine, with Indra and Vayu and Mitra’s lustres.
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545Eh
to'n
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avr
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55511. Thou, the priest of the oblation, thinker and friend, O Agni,
sittest at the Yajnas, therefore do thou set thyself to this
action of sacrifice of ours.
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565roEht
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vA
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570vh
12. Yoking, O God, in thy chariot the rosy and the green and
the crimson, by these bear hither the gods.
Other Hymns to Agni
SHUNAHSHEPA AJIGARTI
575SUKTA 26
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1. Gird on thy robes, O thou adorable one, — master of all
590abounding mights, conduct this our oblation.
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no
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2. Settle down, — for thou art the supreme offerer of sacrifice,
O young, strong and brilliant Agni, — by the thoughts of
my meditation into my speech.
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3. Because he doeth sacrifice as a father for his son, as a lover
for his lover, as a comrade for his comrade, therefore is he
the supreme offerer.
620aA
no
bhF
ErfAdso
vzZo
625Emo
ay
mA
sFdt
mn
630qo
yTA
4. May the destroyers of the foe, Varuna, Mitra and Aryaman,
sit down on the sacred rushes as human friends might sit.
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5. O ancient Priest of the offering, rejoice in this our friendship,
hearken to these my words.
Mandala One
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6. For whatsoever with lasting substance we sacrifice to god
665and god, always ’tis on thee that the offering is cast.
Eyo
no
at
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670pEtho
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o
vr
675@y
EyA
vnyo
vym
7. May this master of the peoples be dear to us, the delightful
680and supreme offerer of sacrifice, and to him may we be dear
and full of the strengths of Agni.
vnyo
Eh
vAy
685d
vAso
dEDr
c
n
690vnyo
mnAmh
8. For when the gods are full of the strengths of Agni, then they
hold firmly for us the supreme good; full of the strengths of
Agni may we be in our meditation.
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n
uBy
qAmm
tmyA
700nAm
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st
fty
9. Then should both exchange their full expressions of being,
705the immortals giving to mortal men, man to the deathless
gods.
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EBrn
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vc
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DA
715shso
yho
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10. O Agni, enrich with all thy strengths and confirm, thou
masterful user of force, this my sacrifice, this my speech,
720this delight.
Other Hymns to Agni
SUKTA 27
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725n
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AjtmvrAZAm
1. As the swift strength that bringeth blessings I adore thee
with obeisances, the strong Agni, supreme and king over all
735below.
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2. May he be always full of loving kindness to us, auspicious,
happy, moving out by his flashing brilliance far and wide.
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En
myA
765dGAyo
pAEh
sdEmd
Ev
vAy
7703. Far and near do thou protect us continuously by the univer-
sal vitality from mortal sickness of our life.
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780an
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7854. Speak forth perfectly, O Agni, among the gods this our chant
new-framed of saving power.
aA
no
Bj
790prm
vA
vAj
q
mym
795q
EfA
vvo
atmy
5. Cleave to us in our higher stabilities and in our middle, teach
800us thy utmost reach of being.
EvB8tAEs
EcBAno
EsDo!mA
upAk
805aA
so
dAf
q
rEs
8106. O richly-lustred, thou art he who dwellest over against the
swelling waters of the ocean and distributest them, thou
flowest down immediately on the giver.
Mandala One
ymn
815p
s
my
mvA
vAj
820q
y
j
nA
s
825ytA
f
vtFErq
7. Whomso, though a mortal, O Agni, thou impellest in his
struggles, whomso in his holdings, he attaineth to enduring
830masteries.
nEkry
shy
py
tA
835kyy
Ect
vAjo
aEt
2vA?y
8408. O god of force, there is a substance of plenty that is of the In-
spiration and it embraces in its circuit any plane whatsoever
of being;
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vAj
845Ev
vcq
EZrv
EYrt
tztA
850Ev
EBrt
sEntA
9. Therefore do thou, the universal strength that labours, bring
by thy strong fighters that richness of plenty to its goal (of
855fullness) and by thy wise seers hold it safe.
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tom
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10. O thou who awakenest to thy wooers, do thou pervade
870towards Rudra to whom one doeth all sacrifice, for each
and every people, a hymn full of vision.
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885vAjAy
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11. May he be to us great and boundless, passionate in per-
ception, wide and full of charm, — so may he favour our
understanding and the plenty of our substance.
890Other Hymns to Agni
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r
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;
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Ev
pEtd
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900k
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Zot
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hYAn
12. May he, as one full of impetuosity, the master of these peo-
ples who is divine perception, hearken to us, even Agni who
910burneth into greatness with the prayers of our desire for his
fuel.
nmo
mhd
yo
915nmo
aB
k
yo
nmo
920y
v yo
nm
aAEfn
y
925yjAm
d
vAn
yEd
f
930vAm
mA
6yAys
f
smA
935v
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d
vA
13. Obeisance to the Great Gods! obeisance to the lesser! obei-
940sance to the young! obeisance to them who are (old?) keen
and swift! may we do sacrifice to the gods to the utmost of
our capacity, may our self-expression not be mutilated, O
ye elder-gods.
KANWA GHAURA
945SUKTA 36
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1. The master of many peoples who labour towards the god-
head, we seek for you with words of perfect expression,
Agni whom others also everywhere desire.
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aEn
dEDr
shov
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EvD
m
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975v
no
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980ihAEvtA
BvA
vAj
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sy
9852. Men hold Agni in them as the increaser of strength. With
offerings we dispose the sacrifice for thee, do thou then
become today to us perfect-minded and our keeper here in
our havings, O thou who art of the truth of being.
Mandala One
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cryc
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3. Thee we choose out for our messenger, the priest of offering
1010who hast universal knowledge; when thou art greatened
in thy being thy flames range wide, thy lustres touch the
heavens.
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so
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jyEt
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ddAf
my
4. The gods even Varuna and Mitra and Aryaman light thee ut-
1035terly, the ancient messenger; all wealth that mortal conquers
by thee, O Agni, who to thee has given.
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10605. Thou art the rapturous priest of the sacrifice and master
of this house and the envoy of creatures; in thee are met
together all the steadfast laws of action which the gods have
made.
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6. It is in thee, O Agni, young and mighty, because thou art
rich in joy that every offering is cast, therefore do thou today
and hereafter, perfect of mind, offer to the gods perfected
1090energies.
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G
EmTA
nmEvn
1095up
vrAjmAst
hoAEBrEn
mn
q
1100sEmDt
EtEtvA
so
aEt
E*D
11057. He it is, whom as the self-ruler men who have attained
submission adore; by the queens of the oblation men light
entirely Agni when they have broken through their op-
posers.
Other Hymns to Agni
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v
mtrn
rodsF
ap
1115uz
yAy
cE5r
B
vt
1120k@v
v
qA
MyAh
t
11255dd
vo
gEvEq
8. They smite Vritra the Coverer and pass beyond the two
firmaments, they make the wide kingdom their home. May
1130the mighty One become in Kanwa a luminous energy fed
with the offerings, the Steed of Life neighing in the stations
of the kine.
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sFdv
1135mhA
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9. Take thy established seat; wide art thou, shine in thy pu-
rity revealing utterly the godhead; pour forth, O thou of
1155the sacrifice, thy red-active smoke of passion, thou wide-
manifested, that full of vision; —
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vA
d
1160vAso
mnv
dD
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yEjS
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10. Even thou whom the gods have set here for man most strong
1180for the sacrifice, O bearer of the offering, whom Kanwa
Medhyatithi has established as a seizer for him of his desired
wealth, whom the mighty Indra and all who establish him
by the song of praise;
ymEn
1185m
yAEtET
k@v
ID
-tAdED
1190ty
qo
dFEdy
tEmmA
-ctmEn
1195vD
yAmEs
11. Even that Agni whom Medhyatithi Kanwa has kindled high
upon the Truth, may his impulses blaze forth, him may these
fulfilling Words, him, even Agni, may we increase.
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Eh
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d
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vAJym
1210v
vAjy
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mhA
;
aEs
122012. Complete our felicities, O thou who hast the self-fixity; for
with thee, O Agni, is effectivity in the gods; thou rulest over
Mandala One
the wealth of inspired knowledge. Show thou then favour
to us, great art thou.
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U
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1230EtSA
d
vo
n
sEvtA
1235Uvo
vAjy
sEntA
ydE)jEBvA
GEYEv
12404yAmh
13. Utterly high-uplifted stand for our growth, like the god Sav-
itri; ’tis from these heights that thou becomest the saviour
of our store when we call on thee with [
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n
pAV
hso
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1265v
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no
d
v
127014. High-raised protect us from the evil by the perceiving mind,
burn utterly every eater of our being; raise us too on high
for action, for life; distribute among the gods our activity.
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no
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15. Protect us, O Agni, from the Rakshasa, protect us from the
harm of the undelighting, protect us from him who assails
and him who would slay us, O vast of lustre, O mighty and
1295young.
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v
Evvg
Ev
1300jVrA Ztp
j
MB
yo
amD
1305k
yo
my
EffFt
ay8t
1310EBmA
n
s
Erp
rFft
131516. As with thick falling blows scatter utterly (or scatter like
clouds to every side) all the powers of undelight, O devourer
of their force (or O destroyer of affliction), and him who
would do us harm; whatsoever mortal being exceeds us in
keenness by his actions, may he not as our enemy have
1320mastery over us.
Other Hymns to Agni
aEnv
s
1325vFy
mEn
k@vAy
sOBgm
aEn
1330Avn
Emot
m
yAEtETmEn
sAtA
1335upt
tm
17. Agni has won perfected energy for Kanwa and has won per-
fected enjoyment; Agni protects for him all friendly things,
Agni keeps ever in safe being Medhyatithi who has con-
1340firmed him by the song of praise.
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18. By Agni we call Turvasha and Yadu from the upper king-
doms; Agni has led to a new dwelling Brihadratha and
Turviti (or Turviti of wide delight), a power against the
foe.
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vAmn
mn
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f
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19. Man establisheth thee within, O Agni, as a light for the
eternal birth; mayst thou burn brightly in Kanwa manifested
1385in the Truth and increased in being, thou to whom the doers
of action bow down.
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an
1390rmvto
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yo
BFmAso
n
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rEvn
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140520. Impetuous, O Agni, and forceful are thy flames, terrible
and not to be approached; always thou do burn utterly
the powers who detain and the powers who are vessels of
suffering, yea, every devourer.
Mandala One
1410NODHAS GAUTAMA
SUKTA 58
A hymn to Agni of the woodlands, the Flame that feeds on
and enjoys the pleasant things of the earthly being and when
the emotional and vital being is offered to the gods becomes
1415a creator of the divine birth and a giver of the supreme bliss
and the immortal rapture.
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1. Now again he has become the envoy of the illumined one;
the Immortal born of force tramples on his way and by
1445most effective paths, the middle world has measured out
into form. He illumines by the power of the food-offering
in the creation of the gods.
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vmw
1450y
vmAno
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vEvy3ts
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1455EtSEt
ayo
n
p
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1460Eqty
roct
Edvo
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sAn
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2. The ageless Flame is embracing his own proper food. When
he means to give increase, he stands up swiftly on the fuel.
The back of the burning god shines like a galloping horse.
He shouts aloud as if making to thunder the peak of heaven.
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1490v
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3. He is the doer of the work with the Rudras and the Vasus,
the vicar of sacrifice and seated offering priest, the Immortal,
the conqueror of treasures. The godhead shining among the
1495peoples of these living beings is like our chariot and moves
uninterruptedly to desirable things.
Other Hymns to Agni
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4. Many-voiced, urged by the breath of the wind, he stands
1530abroad easily among the trunks with the series of his mouths
of flame. Black is thy trail, O ageless Flame, when swiftly
thou puttest forth thy male might upon the woodlands, O
wave of lustrous fire.
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5. He ranges like a conquering bull ranges among the herd.
Impelled by the blast he is blowing like a storm down in
1560the wood with his burning jaws even while he travels with
the mass of his might the unwasted middle world. Then the
winged things of heaven are afraid and all that stands and
all that moves.
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1565~A
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mAn
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1570vA
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hotArmn
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1585v
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jmn
6. The Bhrigus set thee, O Fire, among human beings like a
beautiful treasure, one swift to the call of men, an offering
1590priest and desirable guest, like a happy friend for the divine
birth.
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16157. The Flame is a priest strong for sacrifice and the seven of-
fering energies choose him in the rites of the path for the
singer of the word. He is one who wins by battle all riches.
I serve him with my delight and travel to the ecstasy.
Mandala One
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8. O Son of Force, O friendly greatness, give on this day to
men who hymn thee, the joys of a bliss in which there is no
1645wound or fissure. O Flame, Child of Might, keep thy singer
far from evil with thy iron walls.
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9. O wide-lustrous Flame, become an armour to thy singer.
King of Riches, become that bliss to the lords of the riches.
Keep far from evil thy singer, O Fire. At dawn may he
1670quickly come rich with thought.
SUKTA 59
A hymn to Agni Vaisvanara, the universal Force in all the
worlds and in all beings who conducts the action of the uni-
verse and getting rid of the powers of darkness manifests to
1675men the supreme heavenly world of light and truth and true
being.
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17001. Other flames are only branches of thy stock, O Fire. All
the immortals take in thee their rapturous joy. O universal
Godhead, thou art the navel-knot of the earths and their in-
habitants; all who are born, thou controllest and supportest
like a pillar.
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17252. The Flame is the head of heaven and the navel of the earth
Other Hymns to Agni
and the power that moves at work in the two worlds. O
Vaisvanara, the gods brought thee to birth a god to be a
light to Aryan man.
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3. As firm rays sit steadfast in the Sun, all treasures have been
placed in the universal godhead and flame. King art thou of
all the riches that are in the growths of the earth and the
1760hills and the waters and all the riches that are in men.
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4. Heaven and earth grow as if vaster worlds to the Son. Then
the offering priest sings the sacred words even as might a
man of discerning skill. To Vaisvanara, for this most strong
1790god who brings with him the light of the sun-world the
many mighty waters because his strength is of the truth.
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5. O universal godhead, O knower of all things born, thy ex-
cess of greatness overflows even the Great Heaven. Thou
art king of the toiling human peoples and by battle makest
the supreme good for the gods.
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6. I have spoken the greatness of the Bull to whom the Purus
cling and he slays for us the covering Vritras. The universal
1850Godhead and Flame has slain the Destroyers and hastened
the waters on the way and broken down Shambara.
Mandala One
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7. This is the universal godhead who by his greatness labours
1875in all the peoples, the lustrous master of sacrifice, the Flame
with the hundredfold treasures is uttering the hymn of ado-
ration among the Bharadwajas in Purunitha son of Shata-
vana. This is he who has the word of Truth.
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1. The Lord of Life who breathes in the Mother brought to the
Bhrigu like a treasure expressed by the word, a lavish felicity,
a twice-born god, a glorious upholder, a thought-vision of
the knowledge, a messenger who makes good advance and
1905comes in a moment to the object of his journey.
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2. Two are the races who cling to this teacher; the gods who
desire in heaven and men who are mortals bring him the
1930food-offering. One who was before heaven has sat down as
the priest of sacrifice, one to be questioned, a lord of the
peoples among the peoples, a creator.
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3. Our new glory-song of him enjoys the honey-tongued god in
his birth from the heart of man, whom human living beings
1955beget in the strength, delight for their offering, sacrificers in
the seasons.
Other Hymns to Agni
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4. A desirable priest was set in the peoples, a desiring god, a
purifying Vasu in men, a dweller in the home, a master of
the house in the mansion; the Flame becomes a lord of many
treasures.
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20055. O Flame, we the Gotamas making thee clear and bright like
a swift horse who brings our plenty give expression to thee
by our thoughts, to the lord of treasures. At dawn may he
quickly come rich with thought.
GOTAMA RAHUGANA
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1. As we move forward to the path of the sacrifice let us speak
out the word of our thought to Agni who hears us from afar
and from within.
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2. He who supreme (ancient, first) in the worlds of our action
that pour forth the clarity meeting together (or, when our
labours that drip their fruit combine together), protects for
2040the giver his attaining (or movement).
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3. Yea, let all creatures born (be able to) say, “Up Agni comes
into being, slayer of Vritras, conqueror of our wealth in
battle after battle.”
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4. He whose messenger thou art to his home, thou takest his
offerings on their journey (or, takest his offerings on thy
2070journey to be eaten by the gods, or comest to the offerings);
thou makest effective his path of sacrifice.
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5. Him men call the man complete in his offering, complete in
his gods, complete in his base of sacrifice, O Angiras, O Son
of Force.
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6. Thou bringest both those gods here that we may express
2105them and bearest, O rich in delight, the offerings on their
journey (or, to be expressed and to eat the offerings).
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7. No tramp is heard of the horses of thy chariot in its going
2120when thou goest on thy embassy, O Agni.
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8. By thee fostered the horse of life goes undeviating, each
one after that which preceded it, and the giver of sacrifices
progresses, O Agni.
2135Other Hymns to Agni
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21509. Yea, and thou lodgest throughout his being for the giver and
his gods, O God, Agni, a vast and luminous completeness
of energy.
SUKTA 77
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1. How shall we give to Agni? For him what Word accepted
by the Gods is spoken, for the lord of the brilliant flame? for
him who in mortals, immortal, possessed of the Truth, priest
of the oblation strongest for sacrifice, creates the gods?
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22052. He who in the sacrifices is the priest of the offering, full
of peace, full of the Truth, him verily form in you by your
surrenderings; when Agni manifests1 for the mortals the
gods, he also has perception of them and by the mind offers
to them the sacrifice.
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3. For he is the will, he is the strength, he is the effecter of
perfection, even as Mitra he becomes the charioteer of the
Supreme. To him, the first, in the rich-offerings the people
2240seeking the godhead utter the word, the Aryan people to the
fulfiller.
1 Or “enters into the gods”.
Mandala One
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4. May this strongest of the Powers and devourer of the
destroyers manifest2 by his presence the Words and their
understanding, and may they who in their extension are
lords of plenitude brightest in energy pour forth their plenty
2270and give their impulsion to the thought.
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EcEkvAn
22905. Thus has Agni possessed of the Truth been affirmed by the
masters of light,3 the knower of the worlds by clarified
minds. He shall foster in them the force of illumination,
he too the plenty; he shall attain to increase and to harmony
by his perceptions.
2295KUTSA ANGIRASA
SUKTA 94
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2300jAtv
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1. This is the omniscient who knows the law of our being and
2320is sufficient to his works; let us build the song of his truth
by our thought and make it as if a chariot on which he
shall mount. When he dwells with us, then a happy wisdom
becomes ours. With him for friend we cannot come to harm.
2 Or “enter into the words and the thinking”.
23253 Gotamebhih.. In its external sense “by the Gotamas”, the family of the Rishi, Gotama
Rahugana, the seer of the hymn. But the names of the Rishis are constantly used with a
covert reference to their meaning. In this passage there is an unmistakable significance
in the grouping of the words, gotamebhir r.t¯av¯a, viprebhir j¯ataved¯ah., as in verse 3 in
dasmam ¯ar¯ıh..
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2. Whosoever makes him his priest of the sacrifice, reaches
the perfection that is the fruit of his striving, a home on a
2355height of being where there is no warring and no enemies;
he confirms in himself an ample energy; he is safe in his
strength, evil cannot lay its hand upon him.
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23803. This is the fire of our sacrifice! May we have strength to
kindle it to its height, may it perfect our thoughts. In this all
that we give must be thrown that it may become a food for
the gods; this shall bring to us the godheads of the infinite
consciousness who are our desire.
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2390Eq
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2395ZA
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4. Let us gather fuel for it, let us prepare for it offerings, let us
make ourselves conscious of the jointings of its times and
its seasons. It shall so perfect our thoughts that they shall
extend our being and create for us a larger life.
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5. This is the guardian of the world and its peoples, the shep-
herd of all these herds; all that is born moves by his rays
2435and is compelled by his flame, both the two-footed and the
four-footed creatures. This is the rich and great thought-
awakening of the Dawn within.
Mandala One
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24656. This is the priest who guides the march of the sacrifice,
the first and ancient who calls to the gods and gives the
offerings; his is the command and his the purification; from
his birth he stands in front, the vicar of our sacrifice. He
knows all the works of this divine priesthood, for he is the
2470Thinker who increases in us.
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7. The faces of this God are everywhere and he fronts all things
perfectly; he has the eye and the vision: when we see him
from afar, yet he seems near to us, so brilliantly he shines
2500across the gulfs. He sees beyond the darkness of our night,
for his vision is divine.
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8. O you godheads, let our chariot be always in front, let our
clear and strong word overcome all that thinks the false-
2530hood. O you godheads, know for us, know in us that Truth,
increase the speech that finds and utters it.
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25659. With blows that slay cast from our path, O thou Flame,
the powers that stammer in the speech and stumble in the
thought, the devourers of our power and our knowledge
who leap at us from near and shoot at us from afar. Make
the path of the sacrifice a clear and happy journeying.
2570Other Hymns to Agni
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10. Thou hast bright red horses for thy chariot, O Will divine,
who are driven by the stormwind of thy passion; thou
roarest like a bull, thou rushest upon the forests of life, on
2600its pleasant trees that encumber thy path, with the smoke of
thy passion in which there is the thought and the sight.
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2605Eb y
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11. At the noise of thy coming even they that wing in the skies
are afraid, when thy eaters of the pasture go abroad in their
haste. So thou makest clear thy path to thy kingdom that
thy chariots may run towards it easily.
2630ay
Emy
vzZy
DAys
'vyAtA
2635mztA
h
0o
aY
t
2640m
0A
s
no
B
2645$
v
qA
mn
p
2650nrn
sHy
mA
ErqAmA
vy
2655tv
12. This dread and tumult of thee, is it not the wonderful and
exceeding wrath of the gods of the Life rushing down on us
to found here the purity of the Infinite, the harmony of the
Lover? Be gracious, O thou fierce Fire, let their minds be
2660again sweet to us and pleasant.
d
vo
d
vAnAmEs
2665Emo
aY
to
vs
v
2670s
$
nAmEs
cAzrvr
fm
2675yAm
tv
sTtm
'n
sHy
2680mA
ErqAmA
vy
tv
13. God art thou of the gods, for thou art the lover and friend;
2685richest art thou of the masters of the Treasure, the founders
of the home, for thou art very bright and pleasant in the
pilgrimage and the sacrifice. Very wide and far-extending is
the peace of thy beatitudes; may that be the home of our
abiding!
2690Mandala One
tt
t
Bd
yt
2695sEm=
v
dm
somAh
to
2700jrs
m
0y1m
dDAEs
r&
2705d
EvZ
c
dAf
q
2710'n
sHy
mA
ErqAmA
vy
2715tv
14. That is the bliss of him and the happiness; for then is this
Will very gracious and joy-giving when in its own divine
house, lit into its high and perfect flame, it is adored by our
thoughts and satisfied with the wine of our delight. Then
2720it lavishes its deliciousness, then it returns in treasure and
substance all that we have given into its hands.
ym
#
v
2725s
d
EvZo
ddAfo'nAgAvmEdt
sv
2730tAtA
y
Bd
Z
fvsA
2735codyAEs
jAvtA
rADsA
t
yAm
274015. O thou infinite and indivisible Being, it is thou ever that
formest the sinless universalities of the spirit by our sacrifice;
thou compellest and inspirest thy favourites by thy happy
and luminous forcefulness, by the fruitful riches of thy joy.
Among them may we be numbered.
2745s
vmn
sOBgvy
Ev7AnmAkmAy
Etr
2750h
d
v
t3o
Emo
2755vzZo
mAmhtAmEdEt
EsD
p
ETvF
2760ut
O
16. Thou art the knower of felicity and the increaser here of our
life and advancer of our being! Thou art the godhead!
SUKTA 95
2765Ev!p
crt
vT
ayAyA
vsm
2770p
DApy
t
hErryyA
BvEt
2775vDAvA)C
5o
ayyA
dd
f
2780s
vcA
1. Day and Night have different forms, but are travellers to
one perfect goal; they suckle alternately the divine Child.
In our day he becomes the brilliant Sun and is master of
2785the law of his nature; through our night he is visible in the
purity of his brightness and the energy of his lustres.
Other Hymns to Agni
df
m
2790v
j
nyt
gB
mtd
2795Aso
y
vtyo
EvB
m
2800EtmAnFk
vyfs
jn
q
EvrocmAn
2805pEr
qF
nyEt
2. Ten powers of the Thought, young and sleepless goddesses,
gave birth to this child of the Maker who is carried very var-
2810iously and widely. They lead him abroad through the world
in a flaming splendour, his keen power of light self-lustrous
in all things born.
FEZ
jAnA
2815pEr
B
$
qyy
sm
2820d
ek
Ed y
kmJs
p
2825$
vA
mn
Edf
pAET
2830vAnAm
t
$
n
fAsd
2835Ev
dDAvn
S
3. There are three births of him that seek to come into being
around us, one is in the ocean of the infinite, one is in the
2840heavens, one is in the waters that descend from the heav-
ens. In the supreme region of mind, the eastern direction of
earthly beings, he declares the seasons of their sacrifice and
ordains them in their succession.
k
2845im
vo
En@ymA
Eck
t
2850vso
mAt
^
j
nyt
2855vDAEB
b4FnA
gBo
apsAm
pTAmhAn
2860kEvEn
crEt
vDAvAn
4. Which of you has awakened to the knowledge of this secret
thing, that it is the Child who gives birth to his own mothers
2865by the right workings of the law of his nature? Born in the
womb of many waters, he comes forth from their lap a vast
Seer, possessed of the law of his being.
aAEvo
vD
2870t
cAzrAs
EjAnAm
$
v
2875vyfA
upT
uB
v
Eb
2880 yt
jA
ymAnAt
tFcF
Es
2885h
Et
joqy
t
5. Very bright and pleasant he increases in them and is made
2890manifest; in the lap of their crooked windings, he is straight-
exalted and self-lustrous. Heaven and earth both had fear of
their Maker in his birth; they are driven trembling towards
the young lion and woo him to their love.
Mandala One
2895uB
Bd
joqy
t
n
2900m
n
gAvo
n
vA2A
2905up
tT
r
v
#
2910s
dAZA
dpEtb
B
$
2915vA')jEt
y
dEZto
hEvEB
6. They woo him to their love like women and both grow full
2920of happiness. The thoughts of the Light come voiceful to him
in all their movements like lowing cows and he becomes the
master of all judgments and discernings whom men anoint
with their offerings on the right hand of the altar.
u
2925ymFEt
sEvt
v
bAh
$
2930uB
EscO
ytt
BFm
-)jn
2935uQC
5mkmjt
EsmmA3vA
mAt
yo
2940vsnA
jhAEt
7. Like the creating Sun he lifts up his arms to heaven and
terrible in his force, adorning both his wives, he labours
working into brightness both these fields of his outpouring;
2945he drives upward the shining veil of thought from all that
is; he plucks off their new robes from his mothers.
v
q
!p
2950k
Z
t
u1r
yt
2955s
p
)cAn
sdn
goEBrEY
2960kEvb
pEr
mm
6yt
DF
2965sA
d
vtAtA
sEmEtb
B
2970$
v
8. When he joins himself in his seat and home to the rays of
the Truth and to its streams, when he makes for himself that
higher flaming form of his, then as the seer and thinker he
2975delivers into a bright clearness that divine foundation. In
our forming of the godheads, it is he that is their union and
coming together.
uz
t
2980{y
py
Et
b
EvrocmAn
2985mEhqy
DAm
Ev
v
EBrn
2990vyfoEBEr=o'dND
EB
pAy
EB
pAVmAn
29959. The speed of thee encompasses the wideness, the founda-
tion, the far-shining abode of the vast Godhead. O Flame,
lit into thy full height guard us with all thy universal self-
illuminings, guards invincible.
Other Hymns to Agni
3000Dv*ot
k
Z
t
gAt
3005m
$
Em
f
#!Em
3010EBrEB
nEt
Am
Ev
vA
3015snAEn
jWr
q
D1
'tn
3020vAs
crEt
s
$
q
3025/
10. He creates on our desert earth the stream, the moving billow,
and by its shining waves of light he ascends to the heavens;
he holds all old and lasting things in his bellies and moves
in all new births.
3030evA
no
an
sEmDA
v
3035DAno
r
vt
pAvk
2vs
3040Ev
BAEh
t3o
Emo
vzZo
3045mAmhtAmEdEt
EsD
p
ETvF
ut
3050O
11. So, O Flame, increase by the fuel that we heap for thee; and,
O purifier, shine wide and opulently that we may possess
inspired knowledge. That may the Lords of Harmony and
Wideness increase in us, the Mother infinite and the great
3055ocean and earth and heaven.
SUKTA 96
s
&TA
shsA
3060jAymAn
s
kA yAEn
b0D1
Ev
3065vA
aAp
c
Em
EDqZA
3070c
sADd
vA
aEn
DAryn
3075d
EvZodAm
1. As of old by force he is born and in his very birth infallibly he
lays his hands on all seer-seeings and wisdoms; the Thought
and the heavenly waters bring to perfection this friend of
3080beings. The godheads hold the Flame that gives the treasure.
s
p
$
v
3085yA
EnEvdA
k ytAyoErmA
jA
ajnymn
3090$
nAm
EvvvtA
csA
Amp
3095c
d
vA
aEn
DAryn
3100d
EvZodAm
2. By the supreme and original inmost knowledge of the being,
the knowledge that does the works of the seer, he brought
into being these children of men, the thinkers, and by his
3105wide-shining eye of vision created heaven and its waters.
The godheads hold the Flame that gives the treasure.
Mandala One
tmF0t
Tm
3110y.sAD
Evf
aArFrAh
tm
)jsAnm
3115Uj
p
Brt
s
dAn
3120d
vA
aEn
DAryn
d
3125EvZodAm
3. Him desire and adore, for he is the first and chief who brings
to perfect accomplishment your sacrifice, since he takes all
offering of the Aryan peoples and makes them to shine with
light; he is the son of Energy, the bringer of boons, the flood
3130of strength. The godheads hold the Flame that gives the
treasure.
s
mAtEr
vA
3135p
zvArp
EEv
dd
gAt
3140tnyAy
vEv
t
EvfA
gopA
3145jEntA
rodyod
vA
aEn
DAryn
3150d
EvZodAm
4. He is Life that swells in the mother of things, the Life-god
who nurses in his bosom many blessings, finds the path for
the Son of men and discovers the country of Light, protector
3155of the peoples, father of earth and heaven. The godheads
hold the Flame that gives the treasure.
n8toqAsA
vZ
mAm
3160MyAn
DApy
t
Eff
m
3165k
smFcF
AvAAmA
zo
atEv
3170BAEt
d
vA
aEn
DAryd
3175EvZodAm
5. Night and Dawn are working to shape that highest hue
of things, different, they suckle one child, they are united
equals; between our earth and heavens are born the wide-
nesses of his golden light. The godheads hold the Flame that
3180gives the treasure.
rAyo
b
s
gmno
3185vs
$
nA
y.y
k
3190t
m
msADno
v
am
3195tv
rmAZAs
en
d
vA
3200aEn
DAryn
d
EvZodAm
6. He is the foundation of the opulence of the beatitude, the
3205bringer together of its treasures; he is the conscious eye of
our sacrifice who accomplishes and perfects the thought in
the word of man. The godheads, guarding immortality, hold
the Flame that gives the treasure.
Other Hymns to Agni
3210n
$
c
p
rA
3215c
sdn
ryFZA
jAty
c
3220jAymAny
c
Am
st
c
3225gopA
Bvt
c
B
$
3230r
d
vA
aEn
DAryn
3235d
EvZodAm
7. Now and of old he is the seat of all felicities, continent of
all that is born and all that is coming into birth, guardian of
that which is and the much that becomes, — the godheads
3240hold the Flame that gives the treasure.
d
EvZodA
d
EvZst
3245ry
d
EvZodA
snry
y
3250st
d
EvZodA
vFrvtFEmq
no
3255d
EvZodA
rAst
dFG
mAy
32608. May this giver of treasure extend to us treasure which
hastens to its home, and the treasure which is lasting and
eternal; he is the giver of treasure and he shall give to us
heroic energy of impulsion and lavish on us long existence.
evA
3265no
an
sEmDA
v
DAno
3270r
vt
pAvk
2vs
Ev
3275BAEh
t3o
Emo
vzZo
mAmhtAmEdEt
3280EsD
p
ETvF
ut
O
32859. So, O Flame, increase by the fuel that we heap for thee; and,
O purifier, shine wide and opulently that we may possess
inspired knowledge. That may the Lords of Harmony and
Wideness increase in us, the Mother infinite and the great
ocean and earth and heaven.
3290SUKTA 97
ap
n
fof
cdGmn
3295f
f
yA
rEym
ap
3300n
fof
cdGm
1. Burn away from us the sin, flame out on us the bliss. Burn
away from us the sin!
3305s
EyA
s
gAt
yA
3310vs
$
yA
c
yjAmh
3315ap
n
fof
cdGm
2. For the perfect path to the happy field, for the exceeding
3320Mandala One
treasure when we would do sacrifice, — burn away from us
the sin!
yd
BEdS
3325eqA
AmAkAs
c
s
$
3330ry
ap
n
fof
cdGm
33353. That the happiest of all these many godheads may be born
in us, that the seers who see in our thought may multiply,
— burn away from us the sin!
yt
t
3340an
s
$
ryo
jAy
3345mEh
t
vym
ap
n
3350fof
cdGm
4. That thy seers, O Flame divine, may multiply and we be
new-born as thine, — burn away from us the sin!
ydn
3355shvto
Ev
vto
yEt
BAnv
3360ap
n
fof
cdGm
5. When the flaming rays of thy might rush abroad on every
3365side violently, — burn away from us the sin!
v
Eh
Ev
vtom
3370K
Ev
vt
pErB
$
3375rEs
ap
n
fof
cdGm
33806. O God, thy faces are everywhere! thou besiegest us on every
side with thy being. Burn away from us the sin!
E7qo
no
Ev
3385vtom
KA'Et
nAv
v
pAry
3390ap
n
fof
cdGm
7. Let thy face front the Enemy wherever he turns; bear us in
3395thy ship over the dangerous waters. Burn away from us the
sin!
Other Hymns to Agni
s
n
3400EsD
Emv
nAvyA'Et
pqA
vty
3405ap
n
fof
cdGm
8. As in a ship over the ocean, bear us over into thy felicity.
3410Burn away from us the sin!
DIRGHATAMAS AUCHATHYA
SUKTA 140
v
Edqd
3415EyDAmAy
s
t
DAEsEmv
BrA
3420yoEnmny
v
Z
v
vAsyA
3425mmnA
f
Ec
6yotFrT
f
34305vZ
tmohnm
1. Offer like a secure seat that womb to Agni the utterly bright
who sits upon the altar and his abode is bliss; clothe with
thought as with a robe the slayer of the darkness who is
3435pure and charioted in light and pure-bright of hue.
aEB
E7jmA
Ev
d3m
34406yt
s
vsr
vAv
D
3445jDmF
p
n
ayyAsA
Ej4yA
3450j
yo
v
qA
yy
3455n
vEnno
m
vArZ
2. The twice-born Agni moves (intense) about his triple food;
3460it is eaten and with the year it has grown again; with the
tongue and mouth of the one (or with his tongue in the
presence of the one) he is the strong master and enjoyer,
with the other he engirdles and crushes in his embrace his
delightful things.
3465k
Z
tO
v
Evj
3470ay
sEtA
uBA
tr
t
3475aEB
mAtrA
Eff
m
AcAEj4
3480vsyt
t
q
Qy
tmA
3485sAQy
k
py
vD
n
3490Ept
3. He gives energy of movement to both his mothers on their
dark path, in their common dwelling, and both make their
way through to their child (or following their child), for
his tongue is lifted upward, he destroys and rushes swiftly
3495through and should be cloven to, increasing his father.
Mandala One
m
m
Lvo
3500mnv
mAnvyt
rG
d
v
3505k
ZsFtAs
U
j
v
3510asmnA
aEjrAso
rG
ydo
vAtj
3515$
tA
up
y
6yt
3520aAfv
4. For the thinker becoming man his swift-hastening impul-
sions dark and bright desire freedom; unequal, active, rapid-
quivering, they are yoked to their works, swift steeds and
driven forward by the Breath of things.
3525aAdy
t
vsyto
v
T
3530rt
k
Zm v
mEh
vp
3535kEr5t
yt
sF
mhFmvEn
AEB
3540mm
fdEB
vstny3
Et
nAndt
35455. They for him destroy and speed lightly on (or speed and
pervade) creating his dark being of thickness and his mighty
form of light; when reaching forward he touches the Vast of
Being, he pants towards it and, thundering, cries aloud.
B
3550$
qn
n
yo'ED
bB
3555$
q
n<t
v
q
3560v
p&Fr y
Et
rozvt
aojAymAntv
3565c
f
MBt
BFmo
n
3570f
HA
dEvDAv
d
g
3575EB
6. He who when he would become in the tawny ones, bends
down and goes to them bellowing as the male to its mates,
— putting out his force he gives joy to their bodies (or he
makes blissful the forms of things) and like a fierce beast
3580hard to seize he tosses his horns.
s
s
Etro
EvEr
3585s
g
BAyEt
jAn3
v
3590jAntFEn
y
aA
fy
p
3595nv
D
t
aEp
yEt
3600d
ymyd
vp
Epo
k
3605@vt
scA
7. He whether contracted in being or wide-extended seizes on
them utterly; he knowing, they knowing the eternal Agni
lies with them, then again they increase and go to the state
3610divine; uniting, another form they make for the Father and
Mother.
Other Hymns to Agni
tmg
v
3615k
EfnF
s
Eh
r
3620EBr
UvA
tT
m
m
3625qF
Ayv
p
n
tAsA
3630jrA
m
)c3
Et
nAndds
3635pr
jny)jFvmt
tm
8. Bright with their flowing tresses they take utter delight of
him, they who were about to perish, stand upon high once
3640more for his coming. For he loosens from them their decay
and goes to them shouting high, he creates supreme force
and unconquerable life.
aDFvAs
pEr
3645mAt
$
Erh3h
t
Evg
3650EB
svEByA
Et
Ev
{y
3655vyo
dDt
p7t
r
Erht
3660sdA'n
y
nF
sct
vt
3665nFrh
9. Tearing about her the robe that conceals the Mother he
moves on utterly to the Delight with the creatures of pure
Being who manifest the Force; he establishes wideness, he
breaks through to the goal for this traveller, even though
3670swiftly rushing, he cleaves always to the paths.
amAkmn
mGvs
dFEdVD
vsFvAn
3675v
qBo
dm
$
nA
3680avAyA
Eff
mtFrdFd
v
m
3685v
y
s
pErjB
rAZ
3690/
10. Burn bright for us, O Agni, in our fullnesses, be henceforth
the strong master and inhabit in us with the sisters; casting
away from thee those of them that are infant minds thou
shouldst burn bright encompassing us all about like a cuirass
3695in our battles.
idmn
s
EDt
d
3700ED
tAdED
EyAd
Ecmmn
yo
3705at
t
yt
t
f
3710tvo
roct
f
Ec
t
3715nAm y
vns
r&mA
vm
11. This, O Agni, is that which is well-established upon the ill-
3720placed; even out of this blissful mentality may there be born
to thee that greater bliss. By that which shines bright and
pure from thy body, thou winnest for us the delight.
Mandala One
rTAy
3725nAvm
t
no
g
hAy
3730EnyAErA
p7tF
rAyn
amAk
vFrA
3735;
ut
no
mGono
jnA
3740;
c
yA
pAryAQCm
yA
3745c
12. Thou givest us, O Agni, for chariot and for home a ship
travelling with eternal progress of motion that shall carry
our strong spirits and our spirits of fullness across the births
and across the peace.
3750aBF
no
an
u8TEm6j
g
3755yA
AvAAmA
EsDv
c
vg
3760$
tA
g y
y y
yto
3765dFGA
h
q
vrmz@yo
vrt
377013. Mayst thou, O Agni, about our Word for thy pivot bring
to light for us Heaven and Earth and the rivers that are
self-revealed; may the Red Ones reach to knowledge and
strength and long days of light, may they choose the force
and the supreme good.