{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe46/sbe46027.htm","path":"hin/sbe46/sbe46027.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe46/sbe46027.htm","text":"Vedic Hymns, Part II (SBE46), by Hermann Oldenberg [1897]\n1. How shall we sacrifice to Agni? What words, agreeable to the god, shall be addressed to him, the luminous one, who, being immortal and righteous, the Hotri, the best sacrificer, conveys the gods to the mortals 1?\n2. Bring hither by adoration the Hotri who is most beneficial in sacrifices and righteous. When Agni repairs to the gods on behalf of the mortal 1, may he be attentive in his mind, and may he perform the sacrifice 2.\n3. For he is wisdom 1, he is manly, he is straightforward; like Mitra he has become the charioteer of the mysterious 2. Therefore the Aryan clans 3, longing for the gods, address him, the wonderful one, as the first at the sacrifices.\n4. May that Agni, the manliest of men, triumphant with riches [?] 1, come with help to our words, to our devotion, and (to the devotion) of those most powerful liberal givers who bent on the prize 2 have constantly stirred up our prayers 3.\n5. Thus Agni, the righteous G\u00e2tavedas, has been praised by the priestly Gotamas 1. May he augment their splendour and their strength. He the knowing one gains increase according to his desire.\nThe same Rishi and metre.\nNote 1. The construction is y\u00e1h krin\u00f3ti dev\u00e2\u00b4n m\u00e1rtyeshu. Comp., for instance, X, 40, 2. k\u00e1h v\u00e2m \u2026 krinute sadh\u00e1sthe\n[paragraph continues] \u00e2\u00b4. Ludwig translates: der unter den sterblichen der unsterbliche hotar \u2026 schafft die g\u00f6tter.\u2014'Could it be ishkrinoti?' M. M.\nNote 1. The third P\u00e2da of this verse has nine syllables instead of eleven. If we read, as several times must be done, m\u00e1rty\u00e2ya for m\u00e1rt\u00e2ya, we get ten syllables, and the P\u00e2da may belong to the defective type mentioned above, 76, 1, note 2.\nNote 2. Ka seems to me to stand here, as it several times does, in the first of the members of sentence connected by it. See Delbr\u00fcck, Altindische Syntax, 475. Prof. Max M\u00fcller believes that it depends on y\u00e1t: y\u00e1t v\u00e9h, y\u00e1t ka s\u00e1 b\u00f3dh\u00e2ti, 'Bring hither the Hotri \u2026 so that Agni may invite the gods \u2026 and that he (the mortal or Agni) may be attentive, &c.'\nNote 1. Grassmann gives to kr\u00e1tu here and in a number of other passages the meaning 'der Starke.' This is inadmissible; comp. Bergaigne, III, 304.\nNote 2. Here we have again a P\u00e2da of ten syllables (see verse 2, note I), unless bh\u00fbt has dissyllabic value. Prof. Max M\u00fcller translates this P\u00e2da: 'like a friend he is the charioteer of enormous wealth.'\nNote 3. Comp. I, 96, 3 (see below).\nNote 1. On ris\u00e2\u00b4das, comp. above, I, 26, 4, note 1.\nNote 2. Comp. I, 92, 8. There Ushas receives the epithet v\u00e2\u00b4gapras\u00fbt\u00e2.\nNote 3. Comp. VII, 87, 3. sp\u00e1sah V\u00e1runasya \u2026 y\u00e9 ish\u00e1yanta m\u00e1nma.\nNote 1. This is again a P\u00e2da of ten syllables.","title":"Vedic Hymns, Part II (SBE46): I, 77","type":"page"}