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Agni, the Illumined Will 277
s no nZA\ ntmo ErfAdA aE`nEgro_vsA vt; DFEtm^ .
tnA c y mGvAn, fEv WA vAjþstA iqy t m m 4
4. May this strongest of the Powers and devourer of the destroyers
manifest 2 by his presence the Words and their understanding,
and may they who in their extension are lords
of plenitude brightest in energy pour forth their plenty and
give their impulsion to the thought.
evAE`ngotmEB tAvA EvþEBr-to V jAtvdA, .
s eq; ; ß\ pFpy(s vAj\ s p; E V\ yAEt joqmA EcEk(vAn^ 5
5. Thus has Agni possessed of the Truth been affirmed by the
masters of light, 3 the knower of the worlds by clarified
minds. He shall foster in them the force of illumination,
he too the plenty; he shall attain to increase and to harmony
by his perceptions.
COMMENTARY
Gotama Rahugana is the seer of this Hymn, which is a stoma in
praise of Agni, the divine Will at work in the universe.
Agni is the most important, the most universal of the Vedic
gods. In the physical world he is the general devourer and enjoyer.
He is also the purifier; when he devours and enjoys, then
also he purifies. He is the fire that prepares and perfects; he is
also the fire that assimilates and the heat of energy that forms.
He is the heat of life and creates the sap, the rasa in things, the
essence of their substantial being and the essence of their delight.
He is equally the Will in Prana, the dynamic Life-energy,
and in that energy performs the same functions. Devouring and
2 Or “enter into the words and the thinking”.
3 Gotamebhih. . In its external sense “by the Gotamas”, the family of the Rishi, Gotama
Rahugana, the seer of the hymn. But the names of the Rishis are constantly used with a
covert reference to their meaning. In this passage there is an unmistakable significance
in the grouping of the words, gotamebhir r.tāvā, viprebhir jātavedāh. , as in verse 3 in
dasmam ārīh. .