Rigveda 1.1.4

Vedic Hymns, Part II: Hymns to Agni (Maṇḍalas I–V) (SBE 46) 1.1.4

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1.1.4

Agni, whatever sacrifice and worship thou encompassest on every side, that indeed goes to the gods.

Note 1. 'Worship' is a very inadequate translation of adhvara, which is nearly a synonym of yagña, by the side of which it frequently stands. Possibly in the designation of the sacrifice as yagña the stress was laid on the element of prayer, praises, and adoration; in the designation as adhvara on the actual work which was chiefly done by the Adhvaryu.—Prof. Max Müller writes: 'I accept the native explanation a-dhvara, without a flaw, perfect, whole, holy. Adhvara is generally an opus operatum; hence adhvaryu, the operating priest.' Comp. Physical Religion, p. 171. Bury's derivation of adhvara from madhu (m̥dhu-ara, Bezzenberger's Beiträge, VII, 339) is much more ingenious than convincing.

Translations (7)

Rig-Veda Sanhitá — Horace Hayman Wilson 1850, English
The Hymns of the Rigveda — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1889, English
Rig-Veda, übersetzt und mit kritischen und erläuternden Anmerkungen versehen — Hermann Grassmann 1876, German
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
Hymns from the Rigveda — Arthur Anthony Macdonell 1922, English

Commentaries (2)

Ṛgvedapadapāṭha — Śākalya, Sanskrit
Ṛgvedabhāṣya (Skandasvāmin) — Skandasvāmin, Sanskrit

Other recensions (1)

Metrically restored text (van Nooten & Holland) — Sanskrit

Linked texts (1)

Ṛgvedasaṃhitā — Sanskrit