Rig-Veda-Sanhita; A Collection of Ancient Hindu Hymns ... Volume 4

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ... 9. Divine Twashtri, being well pleased, give issue to our procreative vigour, whence (a son) manly, devout, vigorous, wielder of the /Soma-bruising stone, and reverencing the gods, may be born. 10. Vanaspati, bring the gods nigh: may Agni, the immolater, prepare the victim: let him who is truth officiate as the ministering priest, for verily he knows the birth of the gods. 11. Agni, kindled (into flame), come to our presence in the same chariot with Indra, and with the swift-moving gods: may Aditi, the mother of excellent sons, sit down on the sacred grass, and may the immortal gods be satisfied with the reverentiallyoffered oblation. Sgkta III. (III.) The deity is Agni; the metre as before. 1. Appoint (gods) the most adorable, divine, vargain. Agni, consentient with (all other) fires, your messenger at the sacrifice: him who is permanently present amongst men, the observer of truth, who is crowned with flame, the purifier, whose food is butter.1 2. When, like a neighing steed about to feed upon the forage, (agni) springs up from the vast-enclosing (forest), then the wind fans his flame: and black, (agni), is thy course.2 3. The kindled undecaying flames of thee, the newly-born, the showerer, rise up: the luminous smoke spreads along the sky: and thou, Agni, proceedest as their messenger to the gods.1 4. The light of whom quickly spreads over the earth, when with his teeth (of flame) he devours his food: thy blaze rushes along like a charging host, when Agni, of goodly aspect, thou spreadest with thy flame (amongst the trees) as if (they were) barley.2 5. Men cherish that youthful Agni at evening and at dawn, as (they tend) a horse: lighting him as a guest in his proper station: the radiance of the showerer (of benefits), to whom the...