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# Samaveda 445

Sāmavedasaṃhitā 445

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [445](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.sama.445)

4 9 1 1801a agniṃ hotāraṃ manye dāsvantaṃ vasoḥ sūnuṃ sahaso jātavedasaṃ vipraṃ na jātavedasam  
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4 9 1 1801c ya ūrdhvaro svadhvaro devo devācyā kṛpā .  
4 9 1 1801e ghṛtasya vibhrāṣṭimanu śukraśociṣa ājuhvānasya sarpiṣaḥ .. 1813  
4 9 1 1802a yajiṣṭhaṃ tvā yajamānā huvema jyeṣṭhamaṅgirasāṃ vipra manmabhirviprebhiḥ śukramanmabhiḥ .  
4 9 1 1802c parijmānamiva dyāṃ hotāraṃ carṣaṇīnām .  
4 9 1 1802e śociṣkeśaṃ vṛṣaṇaṃ yamimā viśaḥ prāvantu jūtaye viśaḥ .. 1814  
4 9 1 1803a sa hi purū cidojasā virukmatā dīdyāno bhavati druhantaraḥ paraśurna druhantaraḥ .  
4 9 1 1803c vīḍu cidyasya samṛtau śruvadvaneva yatsthiram .  
4 9 1 1803e niṣṣahamāṇo yamate nāyate dhanvāsahā nāyate .. 1815

> 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.  
> — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1893, The Hymns of the Samaveda

> 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.  
> — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1893, The Hymns of the Samaveda

> 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.  
> — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1893, The Hymns of the Samaveda

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## Translations (1)

- [The Hymns of the Samaveda](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.sama~en-griffith.2.9.1.18.1) — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1893, English

## Commentaries (2)

- [Sāmavedabhāṣya (Bharatasvāmin)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.sama!bharatasvamin) — Bharatasvāmin, Sanskrit
- [Sāmavedārthaprakāśa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.sama!samavedarthaprakasa) — Sāyaṇa, Sanskrit

## Discussed in (1)

- [A Vedic Concordance](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.bloomfield-1906.c6.135) — Bloomfield 1906, English

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