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 79

Rishi: GOTAMA Deity: AGNI

He is golden-haired in the expanse of mid-air, raging lightning, swift-moving like the wind, bright-lustred, perceptive of the celebrated, active, Dawns following the Truth.

When Agni, immortal, awakes as the Will in the mortal and flames upward, then his radiance touching the third world of pure Mind - the Heaven - acquires the solar hue, receives and shines with the lustres of Truth. Flaming in the mid-region where the Life-Force predominates, he flashes shaking in swift action the coverer (cloud) of the powers of light and strength. In the waking state, he knows and awakens the outward man to the approaches of the Dawns of higher Consciousness. Thus is described in this Rik the threefold movement of Agni - in the Heaven of pure Mind, in the Mid-region of Prana, in the physical waking state (Earth).

Thy flaming rays gather strength with their speeds, the dark cloud thunders. Then does it pour with wholesome and as though smiling (lightnings). Waters rain down, clouds roar.

Agni, the flaming Will, ascends in the mid-region, the station of Prana. As he gathers force with his speed, Indra signals, by his thunder, the approaching shower of the Waters (signifying light and power of Consciousness). These pour drop by drop in the field of the physical body (of man) accompanied by lightning-like flashes of pure, enhappying, light and power. Then follows the shower of rain.

When this Agni nourishes with the sap of Truth and leads by the straight paths of Truth, then do Aryama, Mitra, Varuna and Indra (moving around) relate to the covering of the source of the showerer on high.

After thus inciting the shower on the plane of Prana, the flaming Agni nourishes the Yajamana with the sap of Truth and leads him along the paths of Truth. Thereafter the Gods - Adityas, Mitra etc. born of Truth-Light, join the being of the Yajamana to the luminous lid that acts as a protective cover to the source of the shower of the Truth-powers.

O Agni, Son of Strength, thou art the lord of luminous wealth. Knower of all births, establish in us the vast inspired knowledge.
He, the flaming Agni, the abode of things, Sere is, to be praised by our hymns. O many-mouthed one, blaze thou so that the wealth is ours.
And, O shining Agni, sharp-visaged, do thou by thyself burn against the Rakshasas by night, day and dawn.
Praiseworthy in all acts of intelligence, O Agni, increase us with thy nourishings to acquire the Gayatri.
O. Agni, bring for us wealth that is instantly effective, the best wealth that is invincible in all our frays.
O Agni, establish for our living wealth with auspicious knowledge, enhappying, nourishing the entire life.
O Gotama, desiring happiness, present pure hymns of praise to the sharp-flaming Agni. The Rishi addresses himself.
May he perish, O Agni, who near or far, assails us. Do thou increase us.
Thousand-eyed, clear-sighted, Agni drives away the Rakshasas. Praiseworthy, he, the invoker, lauds the Gods.