Translation of the Sanhitá of the Sáma Veda / By J. Stevenson.

Date:
1842
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Credit: Translation of the Sanhitá of the Sáma Veda / By J. Stevenson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    winds (obtain) water from the ridges of the clouds. O recipient of praise, with our eucharistic voices do we come eagerly to thee, as war-horses rushing into the field of battle. 7. By Vdmadeva. Secure the approbation of your own Agni, the lord of sacrifices,^ the causer of grief,^ the inviter of the gods, the faithful offerer of sacrifice for the two worlds, who existed before the clouds, yet without vitality, and who shines with golden radiance. 8. By Vasishtha. The radiant lord shines when praised ; and his mouth, the receptacle of the offer¬ ings of clarified butter, is celebrated by the oblation- presenting sacrificers. This is that Agni who manifests his splendour at the natal place of the coruscations of the morning dawn. 9. By Trisiras. Agni traverses, by his own mighty power, the two worlds, and when he sends down rain he causes his mighty roarings to extend from the farthest to the nearest extremity of heaven; and, great in might, he grows greater still in the (ethereal) abode of waters. 10. By Vasishtha. O fellow-priests, bring forth by your manual labour from the sacred wood (Arani) the everywhere-difiused Agni, who is borne ^ Or who blazes over the sacrifice. ^ The original word is Rudra.