Rigveda 1.76
Ṛgvedasaṃhitā 1.76
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- Sanskrit
1.76.1
kā ta̱ upe̍ti̱r mana̍so̱ varā̍ya̱ bhuva̍d agne̱ śaṁta̍mā̱ kā ma̍nī̱ṣā |
ko vā̍ ya̱jñaiḥ pari̱ dakṣa̍ṁ ta āpa̱ kena̍ vā te̱ mana̍sā dāśema ||
How may the mind draw nigh to please thee, Agni? What hymn of praise shall bring us greatest blessing? Or who hath gained thy power by sacrifices? or with what mind shall we bring thee oblations?
1.76.2
ehy a̍gna i̱ha hotā̱ ni ṣī̱dāda̍bdha̱ḥ su pu̍rae̱tā bha̍vā naḥ |
ava̍tāṁ tvā̱ roda̍sī viśvami̱nve yajā̍ ma̱he sau̍mana̱sāya̍ de̱vān ||
Come hither, Agni; sit thee down as Hotar; be thou who never wast deceived our leader. May Heaven and Earth, the all-pervading, love thee: worship the Gods to win for us their favour.
1.76.3
pra su viśvā̍n ra̱kṣaso̱ dhakṣy a̍gne̱ bhavā̍ ya̱jñānā̍m abhiśasti̱pāvā̍ |
athā va̍ha̱ soma̍pati̱ṁ hari̍bhyām āti̱thyam a̍smai cakṛmā su̱dāvne̍ ||
Burn thou up all the Riksasas, O Agni; ward thou off curses from our sacrifices. Bring hither with his Bays the Lord of Soma: here is glad welcome for the Bounteous Giver.
1.76.4
pra̱jāva̍tā̱ vaca̍sā̱ vahni̍r ā̱sā ca̍ hu̱ve ni ca̍ satsī̱ha de̱vaiḥ |
veṣi̍ ho̱tram u̱ta po̱traṁ ya̍jatra bo̱dhi pra̍yantar janita̱r vasū̍nām ||
Thou Priest with lip and voice that bring us children hast been invoked. Here with the Gods be seated. Thine is the task of Cleanser and Presenter: waken us, Wealth-bestower and Producer.
1.76.5
yathā̱ vipra̍sya̱ manu̍ṣo ha̱virbhi̍r de̱vām̐ aya̍jaḥ ka̱vibhi̍ḥ ka̱viḥ san |
e̱vā ho̍taḥ satyatara̱ tvam a̱dyāgne̍ ma̱ndrayā̍ ju̱hvā̍ yajasva ||
As with oblations of the priestly Manus thou worshippedst the Gods, a Sage with sages, So now, O truthfullest Invoker Agni, worship this day with joy-bestowing ladle.
Translations (7)
- The Hymns of the Rigveda — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1889, English
- Der Rig-Veda aus dem Sanskrit ins Deutsche übersetzt (HOS 33–35) — Karl Friedrich Geldner 1951, German
- Ригведа — Tatyana Yakovlevna Elizarenkova 1989, Russian
- Études védiques et pāṇinéennes (traductions) — Louis Renou 1955, French
- Rig-Veda Sanhitá — Horace Hayman Wilson 1850, English
- Rig-Veda, übersetzt und mit kritischen und erläuternden Anmerkungen versehen — Hermann Grassmann 1876, German
- Vedic Hymns, Part II: Hymns to Agni (Maṇḍalas I–V) (SBE 46) — Hermann Oldenberg 1897, English
Commentaries (10)
- Vedārthaprakāśa (Ṛgvedabhāṣya) — Sāyaṇa, Sanskrit
- Ṛgvedapadapāṭha — Śākalya, Sanskrit
- Ṛgarthadīpikā — Veṅkaṭamādhava, Sanskrit
- Ṛgvedabhāṣya (Skandasvāmin) — Skandasvāmin, Sanskrit
- Ṛgvedabhāṣya (Udgītha) — Udgītha, Sanskrit
- Ṛgbhāṣya (Madhva) — Madhva, Sanskrit
- Ṛgvedasaṃhitāvyākhyā — Sanskrit
- Ṛgvedasaṃhitābhāṣya — Udgīthācārya, Sanskrit
- Ṛgvedasūktanirukta — Mādhava, Sanskrit
- Bhāṣya — Sanskrit
Other recensions (1)
Linked texts (12)
- A Vedic Concordance — Maurice Bloomfield, English
- Āśvalāyanasaṃhitā — Sanskrit
- La religion védique d'après les hymnes du Rig-Véda — Abel Bergaigne, French
- Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India, their Religion and Institutions — John Muir, English
- Vedic Metre in its Historical Development — E. Vernon Arnold, English
- History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) — P. V. Kane, English
- History of Indian Medicine, containing Notices, Biographical and Bibliographical, of the Āyurvedic Physicians and their Works on Medicine — Girindranath Mukhopadhyaya, English
- Saṃhitāpadapāṭha — Sanskrit
- Die Hymnen des Rigveda, Bd. I: Metrische und textgeschichtliche Prolegomena — Hermann Oldenberg, German
- History of Sanskrit Poetics — P. V. Kane, English
- Vedic Mythology — Arthur Anthony Macdonell, English
- The Arctic Home in the Vedas — Bal Gangadhar Tilak, English