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.
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प्रेष्ठं वो अतिथिं स्तुषे मित्रमिव प्रियम् । अग्निं रथं न वेद्यम् ॥१॥
1) Your guest most beloved I laud who is like a beloved friend, Fire who is as if the chariot of our journey, the one whom we must know.
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कविमिव प्रेचतसं यं देवासो अध द्विता । नि मर्त्येष्वादधुः ॥२॥
2) He whom as the seer and thinker the gods have now set within twofold in mortals.
त्वं यविष्ठ दाशुषो नृँः पाहि शृणुधी गिरः । रक्षा तोकमुत त्मना ॥३॥
3) O thou ever-young, guard men who give, hear our words; protect the son by the Self.
कया ते अग्ने अङगिर ऊर्जो नपादुपस्तुतिम् । वराय देव मन्यवे ॥४॥
4) O divine Fire, O Angiras, O child of energy, by what word, the laud, for thy supreme thinking?
दाशेम कस्य मनसा यज्ञस्य सहसो यहो । कदु वोच इदं नमः ॥५॥
5) By the mind of what master of sacrifice shall we give, O son of force; how shall I word this prostration of my surrender?
अधा त्वं हि नस्करो विश्वा अस्मभ्यं सुक्षितीः । वाजद्रविणसो गिरः ॥६॥
6) Mayst thou thyself create for us all worlds of a happy dwelling, make our words a source of the plenitude and the riches.
कस्य नूनं परीणसो धियो जिन्वसि दंपते । गोषाता यस्य ते गिरः ॥७॥
7) In whose wide-moving thought dost thou take delight, O master of the house; thou from whom come our words in the conquest of the Light?
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तं मर्जयन्त सुकतुं पुरोयावानमाजिषु । स्वेषु क्षयेषु वाजिनम् ॥८॥
8) Him they make bright the strong of will and he goes in front in the race;1 he is a master of plenitude in his own abodes.
क्षेति क्षेमेभिः साधुभिर्नकिर्यं घ्नन्ति हन्ति यः । अग्ने सुवीर एधते ॥९॥
9) He dwells safe on perfect foundations and there are none to slay him, it is he who slays; O Fire, he is a mighty hero and prosperous.
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