Samaveda — Uttararchika — Chapter 9118
SV 2 9118.1
अग्निं होतारं मन्ये दास्वन्तं वसोः सूनुं सहसो जातवेदसं विप्रं न जातवेदसम् । य ऊर्ध्वरो स्वध्वरो देवो देवाच्या कृपा । घृतस्य विभ्राष्टिमनु शुक्रशोचिष आजुह्वानस्य सर्पिषः
agniṃ hotāraṃ manye dāsvantaṃ vasoḥ sūnuṃ sahaso jātavedasaṃ vipraṃ na jātavedasam | ya ūrdhvaro svadhvaro devo devācyā kṛpā | ghṛtasya vibhrāṣṭimanu śukraśociṣa ājuhvānasya sarpiṣaḥ
Agni I hold to be the hotṛ, the bestower of good, son of strength, knower of all born things, like an inspired singer, knower of all born things — who, upright at the rite, of good rites, a god, with god-ward form, (goes) after the flaring of the ghee, of the melted butter poured in for the brightly-flaming one.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith
Agni I deem our Hotar priest, munificent wealth-giver, Son of Strength, who knoweth all that is even as the Sage who knoweth 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, longs for it as it grows bright.
— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1893)
SV 2 9118.2
यजिष्ठं त्वा यजमाना हुवेम ज्येष्ठमङ्गिरसां विप्र मन्मभिर्विप्रेभिः शुक्रमन्मभिः । परिज्मानमिव द्यां होतारं चर्षणीनां । शोचिष्केशं वृषणं यमिमा विशः प्रावन्तु जूतये विशः
yajiṣṭhaṃ tvā yajamānā huvema jyeṣṭhamaṅgirasāṃ vipra manmabhirviprebhiḥ śukramanmabhiḥ | parijmānamiva dyāṃ hotāraṃ carṣaṇīnāṃ | śociṣkeśaṃ vṛṣaṇaṃ yamimā viśaḥ prāvantu jūtaye viśaḥ
Thee, most worthy of worship, we as sacrificers would call, the foremost of the Aṅgirases, O inspired one, with our thoughts, with the inspired ones of bright thought — (thee) roaming about like the sky, the hotṛ of the peoples, flame-haired, the bull whom these clans (serve): may the clans further (him) for swift course.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith
We, sacrificing, call on the best worshipper thee eldest of Angirasas, singer! with hyrnns, thee, brilliant one! with singers' hymn; Thee, wandering round, as 'twere the sky, thee who art Hotar-priest of men, whom, Bull with hair of flame, the people must observe, tile people that he speed them on.
— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1893)
SV 2 9118.3
स हि पुरू चिदोजसा विरुक्मता दीद्यानो भवति द्रुहन्तरः परशुर्न द्रुहन्तरः । वीडु चिद्यस्य समृतौ श्रुवद्वनेव यत्स्थिरं । निष्षहमाणो यमते नायते धन्वासहा नायते
sa hi purū cidojasā virukmatā dīdyāno bhavati druhantaraḥ paraśurna druhantaraḥ | vīḍu cidyasya samṛtau śruvadvaneva yatsthiraṃ | niṣṣahamāṇo yamate nāyate dhanvāsahā nāyate
For he, shining with much radiant force, becomes a piercer of malice, a piercer of malice as an axe (pierces trees); at whose encounter even what is hard cracks, like wood, what is firm; overpowering, he holds his ground, he does not give way; subduing with the bow, he does not give way.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith
He with his blazing Power refulgent far and wide, he verily it iswho conquers demon foes, conquers the demons like an axe: At whose close touch things solid partg and what is stable yields he keeps his ground and flinches not,like trees. Subduing all from the skilled archer flinches not.
— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1893)