{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe46/sbe46013.htm","path":"hin/sbe46/sbe46013.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe46/sbe46013.htm","text":"Vedic Hymns, Part II (SBE46), by Hermann Oldenberg [1897]\n1. The other Agnis (the other fires) are verily thy branches, O Agni. In thee all the immortals enjoy themselves 1. Vaisv\u00e2nara! Thou art the centre 2 of human settlements; like a supporting column thou holdest men 3.\n2. The head of heaven, the navel of the earth is Agni; he has become the steward 1 of both worlds. Thee, a god, the gods have engendered, O Vaisv\u00e2nara, to be a light for the \u00c2rya.\n3. As in the sun the rays are firmly fixed, thus in Agni Vaisv\u00e2nara all treasures have been laid down 1. (The treasures) which dwell in the mountains, in the herbs, the waters, and among men\u2014of all that thou art the king.\n4. As the two great worlds to their son 1, like a Hotri, like a skilful man, (we bring) praises\u2014manifold (praises) to him who is united with the sun, to the truly strong one, new (praises) to Vaisv\u00e2nara, the manliest god.\n5. Thy greatness, O G\u00e2tavedas, Vaisv\u00e2nara, has exceeded even the great heaven. Thou art the king of the human tribes; thou hast by fighting gained wide space for the gods.\n6. Let me now proclaim the greatness of the bull whom the P\u00fbrus worship as the destroyer of enemies 1. Agni Vaisv\u00e2nara, having slain the Dasyu, shook the (aerial) arena and cut down Sambara.\n7. Agni Vaisv\u00e2nara, extending by his greatness over all dominions, who is to be worshipped, the bright one, rich in loveliness, is awake (or, is praised) among the Bharadv\u00e2gas, in the homestead of Purun\u00eetha S\u00e2tavaneya, with his hundredfold blessings.\nThe same Rishi as in I, 58. Metre, Trishtubh. None of the verses of this hymn occurs in the other Samhit\u00e2s.\nNote 1. Comp. VII, 11, 1. n\u00e1 rit\u00e9 tv\u00e1t amr\u00edt\u00e2h m\u00e2dayante, 'the immortals do not enjoy themselves without thee.'\nNote 2. Literally, 'the navel.' Comp. Muir, V, 214.\nNote 3. Comp. IV, 5, 1 (see below). \u00fapa stabh\u00e2yat upam\u00edt n\u00e1 r\u00f3dhah.\nNote 1. Comp. the remark on I, 58, 7 (note 1).\nNote 1. I cannot follow Prof. von Roth (Zeitschrift der D. Morgenl. Gesellschaft, XLVIII, 116), who explains dadhire as a third person sing. of dhri.\nNote 1. The incompleteness both of the construction and of the metre shows that the text of the first P\u00e2da is corrupt. I doubt whether it ever will be possible to restore the correct reading with full certainty, but I shall be glad if others succeed better than I did\u2014and I may add, better than Prof. von Roth (Zeitschrift der D. Morg. Gesellschaft, XLVIII, 117 seq.) seems to me to have succeeded\u2014in correcting and in interpreting the text. I think that after s\u00fbn\u00e1ve\nr\u00f3das\u00ee clearly one syllable is wanted to complete the P\u00e2da: possibly we should read therefore s\u00fbn\u00e1ve r\u00f3dasyoh (comp. verse 2, P\u00e2da 2, arat\u00edh r\u00f3dasyoh, which words form the end of the P\u00e2da). Agni, as is well known, is the son of the two worlds, the s\u00fbn\u00fah r\u00f3dasyoh. In the beginning of the P\u00e2da brihat\u00ee\u00b4 must either refer to the two worlds: in this case we have to read brihaty\u00f3h (instead of brihat\u00ee\u00b4 iva); or brihat\u00ee\u00b4 may refer, as this adjective frequently does, to the g\u00edrah, and we shall possibly have to read brihat\u00ee\u00b4h vah (as to vah, comp. Delbr\u00fcck, Altindische Syntax, 206). But of course all these are mere guesses. In every case the verb on which the accusative g\u00edrah depends ('we bring,' or something like that) must be supplied.\nNote 1. Or, as the killer of Vritra. See H. O., Religion des Veda, 135, note 2.","title":"Vedic Hymns, Part II (SBE46): I, 59","type":"page"}