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 70

Rishi : PARASHARA Deity: AGNI

May we attain plentiful riches. May Agni, flaming bright, with his thinking mind, attain all things that are, he who knows the divine Laws, knows the birth of mankind.
He is the child of the waters, child of the woods, child of the moving and the unmoving; he dwells even in the stone for man, in the middle of his house. He is as one universal in the peoples. He is the Immortal, the perfect thinker.

Child of the Powers, child of Delights, Agni the indweller, born of the mobile and immobile, manifests his divine mystery according to the season and the right order.

Agni is verily the lord of the nights. He bestows riches on him who sacrifices with perfect hymns. O Knower, thou knowest these worlds, the birth of the Gods, the mortal men; guard them all.

Lord of the nights: even in the periods of obscurity of the Yajamana, Agni is awake and effects what he wills.

He whom the rights of various forms increase, the truth-born who is moving and unmoving, the Priest of call, he is produced for us. Seated in the world of light, he renders true all our works.

The obscure periods are of diverse kinds; each night is different from others. Agni increases through them all.

He is like one who accomplishes, greedy, grave like one casting arrows; terrible as a combatant, he is a flaming lustre in battles.

Sri Aurobindi’s rendering of this hymn:

May we win the many Riches, may the Fire, flaming high with his light, master by the thinking mind, take possession of all things that are, he who knows the laws of the divine workings and knows the birth of the human being.
He is the child of the waters, the child of forest, the child of things stable and the child of things that move. Even in the stone he is there for man, he is there in the middle of his house, - he is as one universal in creatures; he is the Immortal, the perfect thinker.
The Fire is a master of the nights, he gives of the Riches, to him who prepares for him the sacrifice with the perfect words. O thou who art conscious, guard, as the knower, these worlds, and the birth of the Gods, and mortal men.
Many nights of different forms have increased him, the Fire who came forth from the Truth, who is the stable and the moving: the Priest of the call, he is achieved for us, seated in the sun-world,¹⁹

Thou establishest word of thee in the Ray-Cow and in the forests; is as if all were bringing the sun-world as offering. Men in many preserve thee and gather in knowledge as from a long-lived father.
He is like one efficient in works and hungry to seize, heroic like one shooting arrows, terrible like as assailant charging, he is a splendour in our battles.