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Samaveda — Uttararchika — Chapter 3207

SV 2 3207.1

तव श्रियो वर्ष्यस्येव विद्युतोग्नेश्चिकित्र उषसामिवेतयः । यदोषधीरभिसृष्टो वनानि च परि स्वयं चिनुषे अन्नमासनि

tava śriyo varṣyasyeva vidyutogneścikitra uṣasāmivetayaḥ | yadoṣadhīrabhisṛṣṭo vanāni ca pari svayaṃ cinuṣe annamāsani

Your splendours, O Agni, are perceived like the lightnings of a rain-cloud, like the comings of the dawns, when, let loose upon the plants and the woods, you yourself gather food into your mouth.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Thy glories are, like lightnings from the rainy cloud, visible, Agni, like the comings of the Dawns, When, loosed to wander over plants and forest trees, thou crammest by thyself thy food into thy mouth.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1893)

SV 2 3207.2

वातोपजूत इषितो वशां अनु तृषु यदन्ना वेविषद्वितिष्ठसे । आ ते यतन्ते रथ्यो३ यथा पृथक्शर्धांस्यग्ने अजरस्य धक्षतः

vātopajūta iṣito vaśāṃ anu tṛṣu yadannā veviṣadvitiṣṭhase | ā te yatante rathyo3 yathā pṛthakśardhāṃsyagne ajarasya dhakṣataḥ

Urged on by the wind, sped forth, following your will, greedily, when busy with foods you spread yourself apart — they strain toward you separately, as chariot-horses (do), your onrushing hosts, O Agni, ageless and eager to burn.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

When, sped and urged by wind, thou spreadest thee abroad, soon piercing through thy food according to thy will, The hosts, who ne'er decayest, eager to consume, like men on chariots, Agni! strive on every side.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1893)

SV 2 3207.3

मेधाकारं विदथस्य प्रसाधनमग्निं होतारं परिभूतरं मतिं । त्वामर्भस्य हविषः समानमित्तवां महो वृणते नान्यं त्वत्

medhākāraṃ vidathasya prasādhanamagniṃ hotāraṃ paribhūtaraṃ matiṃ | tvāmarbhasya haviṣaḥ samānamittavāṃ maho vṛṇate nānyaṃ tvat

(They choose) Agni, the maker of insight, the accomplisher of the rite, the hotṛ, surpassing (all), the thought (itself); for you are the very same for a small oblation and for a great one — they choose you, no other than you.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Agni, the Hotar-priest who fills the assembly full, waker of wisdom, chief controller of the thought- Thee, yea, none other than thyself, doth man elect priest of the holy offering, great and small, alike.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1893)