{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe46/sbe46014.htm","path":"hin/sbe46/sbe46014.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe46/sbe46014.htm","text":"Vedic Hymns, Part II (SBE46), by Hermann Oldenberg [1897]\n1. M\u00e2tarisvan brought (Agni) to Bhrigu as a gift precious like wealth, of double birth 1, the carrier, the famous, the beacon of the sacrifice 2, the ready and immediately successful messenger.\n2. Both follow his command, the Usigs 1 offering sacrificial food, and the mortals. The Hotri (Agni) has sat down before daybreak among the clans, the lord of the clans, whose leave should be asked, the performer of worship.\n3. May our new, beautiful praise, born 1 from our heart, reach him the honey-tongued (Agni), whom the human priests in our settlement 2, the \u00c2yus, offering enjoyment have engendered.\n4. The Usig 1, the purifier, the Vasu has been established among men, the best Hotri among the clans, the domestic 2 master of the house in the house: Agni has become the treasure-lord of treasures.\n5. Thus we, the Gotamas, praise thee, O Agni, the lord of treasures, with our (pious) thoughts, rubbing thee as (they rub down) a swift racer that wins the prize. May he who gives wealth for our prayer, come quickly in the morning 1.\nRishi and metre are the same. No verse occurs in the other Samhit\u00e2s.\nNote 1. The celestial and the terrestrial birth of Agni. Comp. Bergaigne, Rel. V\u00e9d., II, 52.\nNote 2. The text has vid\u00e1thasya. Comp. I, 31, 6, note 2.\nNote 1. On us\u00edg ('the willing one'), as denoting the mythical priests who have first established Agni and have sacrificed as the first, comp. Bergaigne, I, 57 seq. The ubh\u00e1y\u00e2sah seem to be these mythical ancestors and the actual sacrificers.\nNote 1. I propose to read g\u00e2\u00b4yam\u00e2n\u00e2. Comp. I, 171, 2. st\u00f3mah \u2026 hrid\u00e2\u00b4 tasht\u00e1h; II, 35, 2. hrid\u00e1h \u00e2\u00b4 s\u00fatashtam m\u00e1ntram; VIII, 43, 2. \u00e1gne g\u00e1n\u00e2mi sushtut\u00edm; V, 42, 13. g\u00edram \u2026 g\u00e2\u00b4yam\u00e2n\u00e2m, &c.\u2014Comp. Lanman, 356.\nNote 2. On the meaning of vrig\u00e1na, see Max M\u00fcller, vol. xxxii, pp. xx, 208, 304; Geldner, Vedische Studien, I, 139 seq., with my remarks, G\u00f6ttinger Gelehrte Anzeigen, 1890, 410 seq.; Ludwig, Ueber Methode bei Interpretation des Rig-veda, 27 seq.; Colinet, Les Principes de l\u2019Ex\u00e9g\u00e8se V\u00e9dique d\u2019apr\u00e8s MM. Pischel et Geldner, 28 seq.; von Bradke, Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morg. Gesellschaft, XLVIII, 500; Bechtel, Nachrichten der G\u00f6ttinger Gesellschaft der Wiss., 1894, 392 seq.\nNote 1. See verse 2, note 1.\nNote 2. Bartholomae's theory (Bezzenberger's Beitr\u00e4ge, XV, 194) that the stem d\u00e1m\u00fbnas has been developed out of the phrase d\u00e1m\u00fb nah, 'in our house,' does not carry conviction.\nNote 1. See I, 58, 9, note 1.","title":"Vedic Hymns, Part II (SBE46): I, 60","type":"page"}