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the power of the Maruts. With the spotted deer as horses, with gifts that cannot be taken away, they go to the sacrifice wise in the (sacrificial) ordinances 3.
7. Agni am I, by birth Gâtavedas. Ghee is my eye; (the drink of) immortality is in my mouth. The threefold song1 traversing the aerial space, the imperishable Gharma2, the sacrificial food am I by name.
8. With three purifying strainers he (Agni) purified the song, with his heart the thought, discovering the light. The mightiest treasure he produced by the powers of his own nature, and then he looked over heaven and earth.
9. Carry him who is the inexhaustible spring with a hundred rills, who has knowledge of prayers (?), the father of (every speech) that should be uttered, the roaring one1, gladly excited in the lap of his parents-carry him the truth-speaking across (all dangers), O ye two worlds!
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Visvamitra is the Rishi of this Sûkta with the exception of the seventh verse of which the Atman or Brahman is the Rishi. The metre is Gagatî verses 1-6, Trish/ubh verses 7-9.-Verse 5 TB. II, 7, 12, 3. Verse 7 = VS. XVIII, MS. IV, 12, 5.
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The position of this Sûkta in the collection shows that it is to be divided into three independent hymns. This is confirmed by the metre, the first and second of these three hymns being in Gagatî, the third in Trishtubh, and also by the contents: the first hymn is addressed to Agni Vaisvânara, the second to Agni accompanied by the Maruts, the third contains mystical speculations about the nature and the deeds of Agni.
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| SR No. | 007680 |
| Book Title | Satapatha Bramhana Part 05 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Julius Eggeling |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1900 |
| Total Pages | 2017 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 44 MB |