Rigveda 4.9
Ṛgvedasaṃhitā 4.9
- Language
- Sanskrit
4.9.1
agne̍ mṛ̱ḻa ma̱hām̐ a̍si̱ ya ī̱m ā de̍va̱yuṁ jana̍m |
i̱yetha̍ ba̱rhir ā̱sada̍m ||
AGNI, show favour: great art thou who to this pious man art come, To seat thee on the sacred grass.
4.9.2
sa mānu̍ṣīṣu dū̱ḻabho̍ vi̱kṣu prā̱vīr ama̍rtyaḥ |
dū̱to viśve̍ṣām bhuvat ||
May he the Immortal, Helper, bard to be deceived among mankind, Become the messenger of all.
4.9.3
sa sadma̱ pari̍ ṇīyate̱ hotā̍ ma̱ndro divi̍ṣṭiṣu |
u̱ta potā̱ ni ṣī̍dati ||
Around the altar is he led, welcome Chief Priest at solemn rites, Or as the Potar sits him down.
4.9.4
u̱ta gnā a̱gnir a̍dhva̱ra u̱to gṛ̱hapa̍ti̱r dame̍ |
u̱ta bra̱hmā ni ṣī̍dati ||
Agni in fire at sacrifice, and in the house as Lord thereof, And as a Brahman takes his seat.
4.9.5
veṣi̱ hy a̍dhvarīya̱tām u̍pava̱ktā janā̍nām |
ha̱vyā ca̱ mānu̍ṣāṇām ||
Thou comest as the guide of folk who celebrate a sacrifice, And to oblations brought by men.
4.9.6
veṣīd v a̍sya dū̱tya1̱̍ṁ yasya̱ jujo̍ṣo adhva̱ram |
ha̱vyam marta̍sya̱ voḻha̍ve ||
Thou servest as his messenger whose sacrifice thou lovest well, To bear the mortal's gifts to heaven.
4.9.7
a̱smāka̍ṁ joṣy adhva̱ram a̱smāka̍ṁ ya̱jñam a̍ṅgiraḥ |
a̱smāka̍ṁ śṛṇudhī̱ hava̍m ||
Accept our solemn rite; be pleased, Angiras, with our sacrifice: Give ear and listen to our call.
4.9.8
pari̍ te dū̱ḻabho̱ ratho̱ 'smām̐ a̍śnotu vi̱śvata̍ḥ |
yena̱ rakṣa̍si dā̱śuṣa̍ḥ ||
May thine inviolable car, wherewith thou guardest those who give, Come near to us from every side.
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
- Ṛgvedabhāṣya (Skandasvāmin) — Skandasvāmin, Sanskrit
- Ṛgvedabhāṣya (Udgītha) — Udgītha, Sanskrit
- Ṛgarthadīpikā — Veṅkaṭamādhava, Sanskrit
- Ṛgbhāṣya (Madhva) — Madhva, Sanskrit
- Ṛgvedasaṃhitāvyākhyā — Sanskrit
- Ṛgvedasaṃhitābhāṣya — Udgīthācārya, Sanskrit
- Ṛgvedasūktanirukta — Mādhava, Sanskrit
- Bhāṣya — Sanskrit
Other recensions (1)
Linked texts (11)
- A Vedic Concordance — Maurice Bloomfield, English
- Āśvalāyanasaṃhitā — Sanskrit
- La religion védique d'après les hymnes du Rig-Véda — Abel Bergaigne, French
- Vedic Metre in its Historical Development — E. Vernon Arnold, English
- Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India, their Religion and Institutions — John Muir, English
- History of Indian Medicine, containing Notices, Biographical and Bibliographical, of the Āyurvedic Physicians and their Works on Medicine — Girindranath Mukhopadhyaya, English
- History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) — P. V. Kane, English
- Altindische Grammatik — Jacob Wackernagel & Albert Debrunner, German
- Saṃhitāpadapāṭha — Sanskrit
- Die Hymnen des Rigveda, Bd. I: Metrische und textgeschichtliche Prolegomena — Hermann Oldenberg, German
- Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power in the Indian Theory of Government — Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, English