INDEX PAGE SITE MAP Home Indian Lexicon ... Decipherment The process of Soma purification using Agni seems to be a process integral to the generation of wealth, while Agni is adored as the divine purifier. (See 5.009.01, 5.026.01 and other translations highlighted in maroon). r.s.i: budha and gavis.t.ara a_treya; devata_: agni; chanda: tris.t.up
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5.001.01 Agni is awakened by the fuel (supplied) by the priests at the dawn, approaching like a cow (to pasture); his flames rise up to the sky like stately (trees) throwing aloft their branches. [Yajus. 15.24; alternative explanations: prati dhenu a_yatim us.a_sam = as the cow awakenedin the morning by the calf, and men by day-break; yahva iva pra vayam ujjiha_nah = as large (birds) springing from the branches of the trees, or as the largest birds from their nests].
5.001.02 The offer of the oblation is awakened for the worship of the gods; favourably minded, Agni has rise up with the dawn; the radiant vigour of the kindled (fire) is manifested; the great deity has been liberated from the darkness.
5.001.03 When Agni has seized upon the (confining) girdle of the aggregated (world), then, bright-shining, he makes all manifest with brilliant rays; thereupon the precious food-desiring (oblations) is added (to the flame), and Agni, soaring aloft, drinks it as it is (spread out) recumbent by the ladles. [The confining girdle of the aggregated world: yadi_m gan.asya ras'ana_m aji_gah = when he has seized the rope of the company, i.e., the darkness encompassing the world, like a cord or rope, obstructing all active exertion, jagato rajjuriva vya_pa_rapratibandhakam tamas; recumbent: utta_nam = vistr.tam, an epithet of a_jya_dha_ram, stream of ghi_]. | |
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