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MANDALA V, HYMN 13.
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MANDALA V, HYMN 13.
ASHTAKA IV, ADHYÅYA 1, VARGA 5.
1. Praising we call ? thee; praising let us kindle ? thee, Agni, praising, for thy help.
2. Desirous of riches, we devise to-day an effective song of praise, of Agni the heaven-touching god 1.
3. May Agni take pleasure in our prayers, he who is the Hotri among men. May he sacrifice to the divine host.
4. Thou, O Agni, art widely extended, the gladly accepted, desirable Hotri; through thee they spread out the sacrifice.
5. The priests make thee grow, O Agni, the greatest acquirer of wealth, the highly praised one. Bestow thou on us abundance of heroes.
6. Agni! Thou encompassest the gods as the felly (encompasses) the spokes (of a wheel). Thou strivestà for brilliant wealth.
NOTES.
The same Rishi. The metre is Gayatrî.—Verse 2=MS. IV, 10, 2 (cf. TS. V, 5, 6, 1). Verses 2-4=SV. II, 755-757. Verse 4=TB. II, 4, 1,6; MS. IV, 10, 2. Verse 5=TS. I, 4, 46, 3; MS. IV, 11, 4. Verse 6=TS. II, 5, 9, 3. As the Sama-veda forms a Trika of the verses 2-4, not 1-3 or 4-6, we have here an instance of those liberties which the arrangers of the Sama-veda not unfrequently took with regard to the Rig-veda text (see H.O., Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, XXXVIII, 469
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