{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe46/sbe46099.htm","path":"hin/sbe46/sbe46099.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe46/sbe46099.htm","text":"Vedic Hymns, Part II (SBE46), by Hermann Oldenberg [1897]\n1 1. O Agni! May we to-day successfully perform, with thy heedfulness 2, this praise 3 which touches thy heart, which is like a horse, like auspicious power of the mind.\n2. For verily thou, O Agni, hast become the charioteer of auspicious power of the mind, of real ability, and of the mighty Rita.\n3. Through these our hymns direct thyself hither-wards to us like the sun with its light 1, O Agni, gracious with all thy faces.\n4. May we to-day worship thee, O Agni, praising thee with these songs. Thy roarings thunder like (the thunder) of Heaven.\n5. Thy sweetest aspect, O Agni, shines near us for glory's sake, now by day, now by night, like gold.\n6. Like purified ghrita is thy stainless body; (it is) brilliant gold: that (body) of thine has shone 1, O self-dependent one, like gold.\n7. For even a malice which one has committed, thou verily drivest away entirely, O righteous Agni, from the sacrificing mortal 1.\n8. May our friendship, O Agni, our brotherhood with you, the gods, be blessed. This is our navel (i. e. relation) in our seat, in this udder 1.\nThe same Rishi. The metre is stated to be Padapa\u1e45kti (verses 4, 6, 7, Padapa\u1e45kti or Ushnih; verse 5, Mah\u00e2padapa\u1e45kti; verse 8, Ushnih): see on this metre M. M., vol. xxxii, p. xcviii seq.; H. O., Prolegomena, p. 98; K\u00fchnau, Die Trishtubh-Gagat\u00ee-Familie, p. 234 seq.\u2014Verse 1 = SV. I, 434; MS. I, 10, 3. Verses 1\u20133 = SV. II, 1127\u20131129; VS. XV, 44\u201346. Verses 1\u20134 = TS. IV, 4, 4, 7. Verse 1, 2, 4 = MS. II, 13, 8. Verse 3 = MS. IV, 10, 2. Verse 6 = TS. II, 2, 12, 7; MS. IV, 12, 4.\nNote 1. The Avas\u00e2na in this verse ought to stand before hridisprisam, not after this word, as the traditional text places it. Ridhy\u00e2ma, consequently, cannot be accented.\nNote 2. Dr. Neisser's opinion on \u00f3ha is different (Bezzenberger's Beitr\u00e4ge, XVIII, 312).\nNote 3. I read st\u00f3mam, which is frequently found as the object of the verb ridh, and which in several passages receives the epithet hridispr\u00eds.\nNote 1. On the syntactical form of this comparison, see Bergaigne, M\u00e9langes Renier, p. 95.\nNote 1. Or rokate, 'shines'?\nNote 1. The Avas\u00e2na ought to stand before m\u00e1rt\u00e2t. Cf. above, verse 1, note 1.\nNote 1. Cf. above, IV, 7, 7. The meaning seems to be: in this sacrificial place, where the cows give milk.","title":"Vedic Hymns, Part II (SBE46): IV, 10","type":"page"}