{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe46/sbe46073.htm","path":"hin/sbe46/sbe46073.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe46/sbe46073.htm","text":"Vedic Hymns, Part II (SBE46), by Hermann Oldenberg [1897]\n1. To this god Agni I sing 1 for you most powerfully. May he come to us with the gods; may he, the best sacrificer, sit down on the sacrificial grass.\n2. The righteous one to whose skill the two worlds (Heaven and Earth) and (all) blessings cling\u2014Him the men rich in offerings magnify, Him those who long for gain, that they may obtain his blessing.\n3. He, the priest, is the guide of these (men) 1, and he indeed (is the guide) of sacrifices. Praise ye this Agni who is the giver, the winner of wealth.\n4. May this Agni give us most blissful shelter for our (sacrificial) feast, whence he may shower wealth on us in heaven, the (human) dwellings 1, and in the waters.\n5. The singers kindle Agni, the Hotri, the lord of the tribes, the brilliant, the wonderful, with his excellent thoughts 1.\n6. And mayst thou, the best invoker of the gods, help us in our spell, in our hymns. Shine bliss on us, Agni whom the Maruts strengthen 1, the greatest winner of thousandfold (wealth).\n7. Now bestow on us thousandfold wealth with offspring and prosperity, splendid, most powerful, and undecaying abundance in heroes, O Agni!\nThe Rishi is Rishabha Vaisv\u00e2mitra. The metre is Anushtubh.\u2014Verses 6, 7 = MS. IV, 11, 2.\u2014Comp. concerning this hymn, Aitareya Br\u00e2hmana II, 40.\nNote 1. Arka (ark\u00e2) may be first or second person. Comp., for instance, VI, 16, 22. pr\u00e1 vah sakh\u00e2yah agn\u00e1ye st\u00f3mam \u2026 \u00e1rka g\u00e2\u00b4ya ka vedh\u00e1se; X, 50, 1. pr\u00e1 vah mah\u00e9 \u2026 \u00e1rka (Samhit\u00e2p. \u00e1rk\u00e2) visv\u00e2\u00b4nar\u00e2ya visvabh\u00fave, and see Benfey, Die Quantit\u00e4tsverschiedenheiten in den Samhit\u00e2-und Pada-Texten der Veden, III, p. 8.\u2014On the metre of the second P\u00e2da, comp. my Prolegomena, p. 188.\nNote 1. Perhaps we should supply, on account of the preceding nominative, v\u00edprah ('priest'): of these (priests).\nNote 1. Kshit\u00edbhyah seems to me to be co-ordinated with div\u00ed and aps\u00fa \u00e2\u00b4; comp. X, 89, 11. The locative kshit\u00edshu would not have suited the metre as well as the dative. Prof. Max M\u00fcller proposes to translate: 'Whence he may shower wealth on our dwelling, whether he be in the sky or in the waters.'\nNote 1. Comp. X, 172, 2. \u00e2\u00b4 y\u00e2hi v\u00e1svy\u00e2 dhiy\u00e2\u00b4.\nNote 1. Comp. S\u00e2\u1e45kh\u00e2yana Srautas\u00fbtra VIII, 16. indrah marutv\u00e2n \u2026 marutstotrah marudganah marudvridhah marutsakh\u00e2.","title":"Vedic Hymns, Part II (SBE46): III, 13","type":"page"}