Sukta 27

Mantra 1

प्र वो वाजा अभिद्यवो हविष्मन्तो घृताच्या । देवाञ्जिगाति सुम्नयुः ॥

Forward go your plenitudes of force, pressing toward the heights, bearing the offering and moving with clarified light; the seeker of grace reaches the gods.

Mantra 2

ईळे अग्निं विपश्चितं गिरा यज्ञस्य साधनम् । श्रुष्टीवानं धितावानम् ॥

I adore Agni, the clear-seeing one, with the word—he who accomplishes the sacrifice. He is rich in obedient hearing and firm in the founded thought.

Mantra 3

अग्ने शकेम ते वयं यमं देवस्य वाजिनः । अति द्वेषांसि तरेम ॥

O Agni, may we be able—your energetic ones—to attain the divine restraint and right governance; may we cross beyond the hatreds and resistances.

Mantra 4

समिध्यमानो अध्वरेऽग्निः पावक ईड्यः । शोचिष्केशस्तमीमहे ॥

Agni, being kindled in the path of the offering, the purifier and adorable, with hair of flame—we seek him.

Mantra 5

पृथुपाजा अमर्त्यो घृतनिर्णिक्स्वाहुतः । अग्निर्यज्ञस्य हव्यवाट् ॥

Wide in his force, immortal, clothed in clarified brightness, rightly offered—Agni is the carrier of the offering of the sacrifice.

Mantra 6

तं सबाधो यतस्रुच इत्था धिया यज्ञवन्तः । आ चक्रुरग्निमूतये ॥

Him, the unopposed Flame, the sacrificers with disciplined ladles, even so by the awakened thought, have set here for help—Agni, the Power of the divine Will.

Mantra 7

होता देवो अमर्त्यः पुरस्तादेति मायया । विदथानि प्रचोदयन् ॥

The immortal God, the Hotṛ, goes before us by his power of formation; he impels the gatherings of the wisdom-rite into their right movement.

Mantra 8

वाजी वाजेषु धीयतेऽध्वरेषु प्र णीयते । विप्रो यज्ञस्य साधनः ॥

As the bearer of plenitudes he is set in the plenitudes; in the journeys of the sacrifice he is led forward—the seer-force, the accomplisher of the yajña.

Mantra 9

धिया चक्रे वरेण्यो भूतानां गर्भमा दधे । दक्षस्य पितरं तना ॥

By the vision-thought the Adorable has fashioned, and he has set the womb of beings; he has established, in his own body, the Father of the discerning power (Dakṣa).

Mantra 10

नि त्वा दधे वरेण्यं दक्षस्येळा सहस्कृत । अग्ने सुदीतिमुशिजम् ॥

I set thee down, O Agni, the Adorable—an inspiration of Dakṣa, fashioned by force; a clear-bright flame, the eager seeker who labours for the offering.

Mantra 11

अग्निं यन्तुरमप्तुरमृतस्य योगे वनुषः । विप्रा वाजैः समिन्धते ॥

Agni, the guide and the effective doer, in the yoking of the Truth—him the seekers kindle together, the inspired ones, with plenitudes of force.

Mantra 12

ऊर्जो नपातमध्वरे दीदिवांसमुप द्यवि । अग्निमीळे कविक्रतुम् ॥

I adore Agni, the child of the plenitude, blazing in the sacrifice, rising up toward heaven—he whose will is the seer’s will.

Mantra 13

ईळेन्यो नमस्यस्तिरस्तमांसि दर्शतः । समग्निरिध्यते वृषा ॥

Adorable and worthy of homage, visible beyond the darknesses, Agni is kindled wholly—strong and impelling in his force.

Mantra 14

वृषो अग्निः समिध्यतेऽश्वो न देववाहनः । तं हविष्मन्त ईळते ॥

Agni is kindled, a strong bull of energy—like a horse that bears the gods; him those who carry the offering invoke in aspiration.

Mantra 15

वृषणं त्वा वयं वृषन्वृषणः समिधीमहि । अग्ने दीद्यतं बृहत् ॥

The Bull-force that thou art, O Bull— we, too, bull-strong in our striving, kindle thee fully. O Agni, blaze wide in the Vast.