All translations of hymns to Agni from the Rig Veda and other Vedic hymns; and related writings.
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All translations of Vedic hymns to Agni; and related writings. The material includes all the contents of Hymns to the Mystic Fire (translations of hymns to Agni from the Rig Veda, with a Foreword by Sri Aurobindo) as well as translations of many other hymns to Agni, some of which are published here for the first time.
THEME/S
1) Men have brought the Flame to birth by their thinkings from the tinders by the movement of the two hands, expressed by the word, the far-seer, the master of the house, the traveller.
अग्निं नरो दीधितिभिररण्योर्हस्तच्युती जनयंत प्रशस्तं । दूरेदृशं गृहपतिमथर्युं ॥
अरण्योः
Heaven and Earth = mind and physical being, are the two tinders
हस्तच्युती
The two hands are the two hands of the Sun, सवितेव बाहू
दीधितिभिः
दीधिति = thought, light, finger. All mean the same thing, for the fingers are those of the two hands of the Sun, दश धियः
प्रशस्तं
Well-expressed (शस्) by the word: external sense = praised.
अथर्युं
अथ् to move, cf अत् or अथर् —Greek αἰθήρ—the plane of flaming light
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