Translations of Rig Veda Suktas 33-121 by M.P. Pandit

Name: Translations of Rig Veda Suktas 33-121 by M.P. Pandit
Author: T. V. Kapali Sastry

Vol. 10 - Collected Works of T. V. Kapali Sastry

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English translations by M. P. Pandit of only Riks from Rig Veda Samhita, Mandala I, Suktas 33 - 121. Though based on the Siddhānjana, the renderings are more free than literal. The translations are only of the Riks with brief notes (from the Commentary) added wherever found necessary.

Collected Works of T. V. Kapali Sastry Translations of Rig Veda Suktas 33-121 by M.P. Pandit Editor: M. P. Pandit

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CONTENTS
FOREWORD
RIGVEDA SAMHITA : Mandala I
- HYMN 33
- HYMN 34
- HYMN 35
- HYMN 36
- HYMN 37
- HYMN 39
- HYMN 40
- HYMN 42
- HYMN 44
- HYMN 45
- HYMN 46
- HYMN 47
- HYMN 48
- HYMN 49
- HYMN 50
- HYMN 51
- HYMN 52
- HYMN 53
- HYMN 54
- HYMN 55
- HYMN 56
- HYMN 57
- HYMN 58
- HYMN 59
- HYMN 60
- HYMN 61
- HYMN 62
- HYMN 63
- HYMN 64
- HYMN 65
- HYMN 66
- HYMN 67
- HYMN 68
- HYMN 69
- HYMN 70
- HYMN 71
- HYMN 72
- HYMN 73
- HYMN 74
- HYMN 75
- HYMN 76
- HYMN 77
- HYMN 78
- HYMN 79
- HYMN 80
- HYMN 81
- HYMN 82
- HYMN 83
- HYMN 84
- HYMN 85
- HYMN 86
- HYMN 87
- HYMN 88
- HYMN 89
- HYMN 90
- HYMN 91
- HYMN 92
- HYMN 93
- HYMN 94
- HYMN 95
- HYMN 96
- HYMN 97
- HYMN 98
- HYMN 99
- HYMN 100
- HYMN 101
- HYMN 102
- HYMN 103
- HYMN 104
- HYMN 105
- HYMN 106
- HYMN 107
- HYMN 108
- HYMN 109
- HYMN 110
- HYMN 111
- HYMN 112
- HYMN 113
- HYMN 114
- HYMN 115
- HYMN 116
- HYMN 117
- HYMN 118
- HYMN 119
- HYMN 120
- HYMN 121

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RIGVEDA SAMHITA : Mandala I

HYMN 66

Rishi: PARASHARA Deity: AGNI

Pure and radiant, like diverse wealth, all-showing like the sun, dear as life-breath, constant as a son, bearer like a young galloper, like a milk-yielding cow, he clings to the woods.
He bears our weal like a pleasant home; delectable as ripe corn, victorious among men, chanting like a Rishi, celebrated among the peoples, contented as a steed, he sustains our growth.
He is light in the inhospitable home; he is constant will in action; he is like the wife at home, adequate to all; when he glows wondrous, he is spotless in the peoples, he is like a golden chariot; he is resplendent in battle.
He puts strength (in us) like a charged army; he is like a flaming shaft of the archer with fiery tip; he is born as a twin, is the twin to be born; lover of maidens, he is the lord of matrons.

Maidens etc.: he brings out the unmanifest potential.

Matrons: creative Powers. Agni is their lord.

Twin: duality in what is and what is to be.

We come to him aflame, in motion or at rest, like the kine to their stall. He is like a flowing river impelling (waters) downward. With the sun-rise the rays move towards him.

The sun is the Truth-Light; cows are rays of Consciousness.

Sri Aurobindo’s rendering of the hymn:

He is like a wealth richly diverse and like the all-seeing of the Sun. He is as if life and the breath of our existence, he is as if our eternal child. He is like a galloper bearing us. He clings to the forests; he is like a cow with her milk. He is pure-bright and wide is his lustre.
He holds all our good like a pleasant home; he is like ripe corn. He is conqueror of men and like a chanting Rishi; there is word of him among the folk; he is as if our exultant steed of swiftness; he upholds our growth.
He is light in a house difficult to inhabit;⁵

He is like an army running to the charge and puts strength in us; he is like the flaming shaft of the Archer with its keen burning front. A twin he is born, a twin he is that which is to be born: he is the lover of virgins and the husband of the mothers.
We by your movement, we by your staying, come to him when his light is kindled as the cows come home to their stall. He is like river running in its channel and sends in his front the descending Waters: the Ray-Cows move to him in the manifesting of the world of the Sun.⁶