Shloka 43
Adhyāya 31: Rājasūya-samāgama — The Gathering of Kings and the Ordering of Hospitality
चित्रभानु: सुरेशश्व॒ अनलस्त्वं विभावसो । स्वर्गद्वारस्पृशश्चवासि हुताशो ज्वलनः शिखी
citrabhānuḥ sureśaś ca analas tvaṃ vibhāvaso | svargadvāraspṛśaś cāsi hutāśo jvalanaḥ śikhī vibhāvaso ||
اے وِبھاوَسو! آپ ہی چِتر بھانو، سُریش اور اَنَل کہلاتے ہیں۔ آپ کی شعلہ زن لَپٹیں ہمیشہ سَورگ کے دروازے کو چھوتی ہیں۔ آہوتی کو کھا لینے کے سبب آپ ‘ہُتاش’ ہیں؛ بھڑک اٹھنے کے سبب ‘جَولَن’؛ اور شِکھا (شعلے کی چوٹی) رکھنے کے سبب ‘شِکھی’ ہیں۔
सहदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights Agni as the sacred mediator of offerings and a purifier who upholds ritual truth: fire ‘consumes’ oblations, rises heavenward, and thus symbolizes the ethical seriousness of vows, sacrifices, and truthful conduct performed before a divine witness.
Sahadeva is addressing and praising Agni by enumerating his traditional names and qualities—his brilliance, his insatiable consuming nature, his role as receiver of offerings, and his upward-reaching flames—using these epithets as a formal invocation/stuti within the ongoing discourse of the chapter.