HYMN CXXVII Agni: Rig Veda – Book 1 – Ralph T.H. Griffith, Translator

अग्निं होतारं मन्ये दास्वन्तं वसुं सूनुं सहसो जातवेदसं विप्रं न जातवेदसम | य ऊर्ध्वया सवध्वरो देवो देवाच्या कर्पा |
घर्तस्य विभ्राष्टिमनु वष्टि शोचिषाजुह्वानस्य सर्पिषः ||

यजिष्ठं तवा यजमाना हुवेम जयेष्ठमङगिरसां विप्रमन्मभिर्विप्रेभिः शुक्र मन्मभिः | परिज्मानमिव दयां होतारं चर्षणीनाम |
शोचिष्केशं वर्षणं यमिमा विशः परावन्तु जूतये विशः ||

स हि पुरू चिदोजसा विरुक्मता दीद्यानो भवति दरुहन्तरः परशुर्न दरुहन्तरः | वीळु चिद यस्य सम्र्तौ शरुवद वनेव यत सथिरम |
निःषहमाणो यमते नायते धन्वासहा नायते ||

दर्लःा चिदस्मा अनु दुर्यथा विदे तेजिष्ठाभिररणिभिर्दाष्ट्यवसे.अग्नये दाष्ट्यवसे | पर यः पुरूणि गाहते तक्षद वनेव शोचिषा |
सथिरा चिदन्ना नि रिणात्योजसा नि सथिराणि चिदोजसा ||

तमस्य पर्क्षमुपरासु धीमहि नक्तं यः सुदर्शतरो दिवातरादप्रायुषे दिवातरात | आदस्यायुर्ग्रभणवद वीळु शर्म न सूनवे |
भक्तमभक्तमवो वयन्तो अजरा अग्नयो वयन्तो अजराः ||

स हि शर्धो न मारुतं तुविष्वणिरप्नस्वतीषूर्वरास्विष्टनिरार्तनास्विष्टनिः | आदद धव्यान्याददिर्यज्ञस्य केतुरर्हणा |
अध समास्य हर्षतो हर्षीवतो विश्वे जुषन्त पन्थां नरः शुभे न पन्थाम ||

दविता यदीं कीस्तासो अभिद्यवो नमस्यन्त उपवोचन्त भर्गवो मथ्नन्तो दासा भर्गवः | अग्निरीशे वसूनां शुचिर्यो धर्णिरेषाम |
परियानपिधीन्र्वनिषीष्ट मेधिर आ वनिषीष्ट मेधिरह ||

विश्वासां तवा विशां पतिं हवामहे सर्वासां समानन्दम्पतिं भुजे सत्यगिर्वाहसं भुजे | अतिथिं मानुषाणां पितुर्न यस्यासया |
अमी च विश्वे अम्र्तास आ वयो हव्यादेवेष्वा वयः ||

तवमग्ने सहसा सहन्तमः शुष्मिन्तमो जायसे देवतातये रयिर्न देवतातये | शुष्मिन्तमो हि ते मदो दयुम्निन्तम उत करतुः |
अध समा ते परि चरन्त्यजर शरुष्टीवानो नाजर ||

पर वो महे सहसा सहस्वत उषर्बुधे पशुषे नाग्नये सतोमो बभूत्वग्नये | परति यदीं हविष्मान विश्वासु कषासु जोगुवे |
अग्रे रेभो न जरत रषूणां जूर्णिर्होत रषूणाम ||

स नो नेदिष्ठं दद्र्शान आ भराग्ने देवेभिः सचनाःसुचेतुना महो रायाः सुचेतुना | महि शविष्ठ नस कर्धि संचक्षे भुजे अस्यै |
महि सतोत्र्भ्यो मघवन सुवीर्यं मथीरुग्रो न शवसा ||

aghniṃ hotāraṃ manye dāsvantaṃ vasuṃ sūnuṃ sahaso jātavedasaṃ vipraṃ na jātavedasam | ya ūrdhvayā svadhvaro devo devācyā kṛpā |
ghṛtasya vibhrāṣṭimanu vaṣṭi śociṣājuhvānasya sarpiṣaḥ ||

yajiṣṭhaṃ tvā yajamānā huvema jyeṣṭhamaṅghirasāṃ vipramanmabhirviprebhiḥ śukra manmabhiḥ | parijmānamiva dyāṃ hotāraṃ carṣaṇīnām |
śociṣkeśaṃ vṛṣaṇaṃ yamimā viśaḥ prāvantu jūtaye viśaḥ ||

sa hi purū cidojasā virukmatā dīdyāno bhavati druhantaraḥ paraśurna druhantaraḥ | vīḷu cid yasya samṛtau śruvad vaneva yat sthiram |
niḥṣahamāṇo yamate nāyate dhanvāsahā nāyate ||

dṛlḥā cidasmā anu duryathā vide tejiṣṭhābhiraraṇibhirdāṣṭyavase.aghnaye dāṣṭyavase | pra yaḥ purūṇi ghāhate takṣad vaneva śociṣā |
sthirā cidannā ni riṇātyojasā ni sthirāṇi cidojasā ||

tamasya pṛkṣamuparāsu dhīmahi naktaṃ yaḥ sudarśataro divātarādaprāyuṣe divātarāt | ādasyāyurghrabhaṇavad vīḷu śarma na sūnave |
bhaktamabhaktamavo vyanto ajarā aghnayo vyanto ajarāḥ ||

sa hi śardho na mārutaṃ tuviṣvaṇirapnasvatīṣūrvarāsviṣṭanirārtanāsviṣṭaniḥ | ādad dhavyānyādadiryajñasya keturarhaṇā |
adha smāsya harṣato hṛṣīvato viśve juṣanta panthāṃ naraḥ śubhe na panthām ||

dvitā yadīṃ kīstāso abhidyavo namasyanta upavocanta bhṛghavo mathnanto dāsā bhṛghavaḥ | aghnirīśe vasūnāṃ śuciryo dharṇireṣām |
priyānapidhīnrvaniṣīṣṭa medhira ā vaniṣīṣṭa medhirah ||

viśvāsāṃ tvā viśāṃ patiṃ havāmahe sarvāsāṃ samānandampatiṃ bhuje satyaghirvāhasaṃ bhuje | atithiṃ mānuṣāṇāṃ piturna yasyāsayā |
amī ca viśve amṛtāsa ā vayo havyādeveṣvā vayaḥ ||

tvamaghne sahasā sahantamaḥ śuṣmintamo jāyase devatātaye rayirna devatātaye | śuṣmintamo hi te mado dyumnintama uta kratuḥ |
adha smā te pari carantyajara śruṣṭīvāno nājara ||

pra vo mahe sahasā sahasvata uṣarbudhe paśuṣe nāghnaye stomo babhūtvaghnaye | prati yadīṃ haviṣmān viśvāsu kṣāsu joghuve |
aghre rebho na jarata ṛṣūṇāṃ jūrṇirhota ṛṣūṇām ||

sa no nediṣṭhaṃ dadṛśāna ā bharāghne devebhiḥ sacanāḥsucetunā maho rāyāḥ sucetunā | mahi śaviṣṭha nas kṛdhi saṃcakṣe bhuje asyai |
mahi stotṛbhyo maghavan suvīryaṃ mathīrughro na śavasā ||

English Translation

Translated by Ralph T.H. Griffith

1. AGNI I hold as herald, the munificent, the gracious, Son of Strength, who knoweth all that live, as holy Singer, knowing all,
Lord of fair rites, a God with form erected turning to the Gods,
He, when the flame hath sprung forth from the holy oil, the offered fatness, longeth for it with his glow.

2 We, sacrificing, call on thee best worshipper, the eldest of Aṅgirases, Singer, with hymns, thee, brilliant One! with singers’ hymns;
Thee, wandering round as ’t were the sky, who art the invoking Priest of men,
Whom, Bull with hair of flame the people must observe, the people that he speed them on.

3 He with his shining glory blazing far and wide, he verily it is who slayeth demon foes, slayeth the demons like an axe:
At whose close touch things solid shake, and what is stable yields like trees.
Subduing all, he keeps his ground and flinches not, from the skilled archer flinches not.

4 To him, as one who knows, even things solid yield: unrough fire-sticks heated hot he gives his gifts to aid. Men offer Agni gifts for aid.
He deeply piercing many a thing hews it like wood with fervent glow.
Even hard and solid food he crunches with his might, yea, hard and solid food with might.

5 Here near we place the sacrificial food for him who shines forth fairer in the night than in the day, with life then stronger than by day.
His life gives sure and firm defence as that one giveth to a son.
The during fires enjoy things given and things not given, the during fires enjoy as food.

6 He, roaring very loudly like the Maruts’ host, in fertile cultivated fields adorable, in desert spots adorable,
Accepts and eats our offered gifts, ensign of sacrifice by desert;
So let all, joying, love his path when he is glad, as men pursue a path for bliss.

7 Even as they who sang forth hymns, addressed to heaven, the Bhṛgus with their prayer and praise invited him, the Bhṛgus rubbing, offering gifts.
For radiant Agni, Lord of all these treasures, is exceeding strong.
May he, the wise, accept the grateful coverings, the wise accept the coverings.

8 Thee we invoke, the Lord of all our settled homes, common to all, the household’s guardian, to enjoy, bearer of true hymns, to enjoy.
Thee we invoke, the guest of men, by whose mouth, even as a sire’s,
All these Immortals come to gain their food of life, oblations come to Gods as food.

9 Thou, Agni, most victorious with thy conquering strength, most Mighty One, art born for service of the Gods, like wealth for service of the Gods.
Most mighty is thine ecstasy, most splendid is thy mental power.
Therefore men wait upon thee, undecaying One, like vassals, undecaying One.

10 To him the mighty, conquering with victorious strength, to Agni walking with the dawn, who sendeth kine, be sung your laud, to Agni sung;
As he who with oblation comes calls him aloud in every place.
Before the brands of fire he shouteth singerlike, the herald, kindler of the brands.

11 Agni, beheld by us in nearest neighbourhood, accordant with the Gods, bring us, with gracious love, great riches with thy gracious love.
Give us O Mightiest, what is great, to see and to enjoy the earth.
As one of awful power, stir up heroic might for those who praise thee, Bounteous Lord!