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Mandala 3

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III.1Rigveda III.1 — a hymn to Agni tracing his hidden births in the waters, plants, and the sacrificial fire, and calling on him as priest and protector.III.2Rigveda III.2 — a hymn to Agni Vaishvanara, praising his birth, his kindling, and his role as priest of gods and men.III.3Rigveda III.3 — a hymn to Agni Vaiśvānara as messenger, priest, and father of the sacrifices, who fills and spans the two world-halves.III.4Rigveda III.4 — an Āprī hymn invoking Agni and the sequence of ritual deities (Tanūnapāt, the priest of Iḷā, the divine hotṛs, Night-and-Dawn, Bhāratī-Iḷā-Sarasvatī, Tvaṣṭṛ, and the lord of the forest) at the animal sacrifice.III.5Rigveda III.5 — a hymn to Agni as dawn-waker, guardian, and the one identified with Mitra, Varuna, and Mātariśvan, kindled by the Bhṛgus and propping up heaven's vault.III.6Rigveda III.6 — a hymn to Agni as priest, messenger, and leader of the peoples, invoking his seven-tongued flames and the assembly of the gods.III.7Rigveda III.7 — Hymn to Agni Vaiśvānara, describing his hidden movement among the waters and the world-parents before invoking him directly for grace and offspring.III.8Rigveda III.8 — hymn to Vanaspati, the sacrificial post (yūpa), asking it to rise, bear splendor, and grant wealth and offspring.III.9Rigveda III.9 — a hymn calling on Agni as Apām Napāt, the Son of Waters, who hides in the waters and is drawn forth and honored by gods and men.III.10Rigveda III.10 — A hymn invoking Agni as sacrificial priest, guardian of the cosmic order, and immortal carrier of oblations to the gods.III.11Rigveda III.11 — a short hymn praising Agni as priest, banner, and carrier of the sacrifice, and asking him to win rewards for the singers.III.12Rigveda III.12 — a nine-verse hymn to Indra and Agni jointly, inviting them to drink the pressed soma and recalling their shared victories.III.13Rigveda III.13 — a short hymn calling Agni to the sacred grass and asking him for shelter, rain-like wealth, offspring, and strength.III.14Rigveda III.14 — a short hymn to Agni as invoking priest, receiving homage and oblations at the rite alongside Mitra, Varuna, and the Maruts.III.15Rigveda III.15 — a morning hymn to Agni as guardian, guide of the sacrifice, and giver of shelter, wealth, and offspring.III.16Rigveda III.16 — a hymn to Agni asking for wealth, heroic offspring, and protection from misfortune.III.17Rigveda III.17 — a five-verse hymn to Agni as fire kindled at the ritual, priest of the offering, and messenger between gods and worshippers.III.18Rigveda III.18 — hymn to Agni, invoked to burn away enemies and hostile speech and to bring wealth to the household of Viśvāmitra's people.III.19Rigveda III.19 — a five-verse hymn choosing Agni as invoking priest, asking him to carry the sacrifice to the gods and grant wealth, glory, and protection.III.20Rigveda III.20 — a dawn hymn invoking Agni alongside Uṣas, the Aśvins, and a wide company of gods.III.21Rigveda III.21 — a short hymn to Agni accompanying the offering of ghee and fat at the sacrifice.III.22Rigveda III.22 — Hymn to Agni, praising his radiance across heaven, earth, and waters and asking for cattle, offspring, and favor.III.23Rigveda III.23 — a hymn to Agni kindled by the Bharata princes Devaśravas and Devavāta, invoking the fire at the sacred rivers Dṛṣadvatī, Āpayā, and Sarasvatī.III.24Rigveda III.24 — a short hymn to Agni asking for protection from hostile forces and for wealth and sons.III.25Rigveda III.25 — a short hymn to Agni as son of heaven, kindled at the waters, invoked with Indra to attend the soma sacrifice.III.26Rigveda III.26 — the Kuśika clan invokes Agni Vaiśvānara and the Maruts, and Agni speaks of himself in the first person.III.27Rigveda III.27 — a hymn of fifteen short verses invoking and praising Agni as he is kindled at the sacrifice.III.28Rigveda III.28 — a hymn inviting Agni to accept the rice-cake offering at the three daily pressings of the sacrifice.III.29Rigveda III.29 — a hymn to Agni describing his birth by the fire-drill, the churning sticks, and his kindling for sacrifice.III.30Rigveda III.30 — a hymn to Indra praising his strength, his slaying of Vṛtra and other obstructing demons, his releasing of the cows and the waters, and his sustaining of heaven and earth, closing with prayers for wealth, cattle, and victory.III.31Rigveda III.31 — a hymn to Indra recounting the Vala myth: Saramā tracking the hidden cattle, the seven sages breaking open the rock, and Indra freeing the cows and the dawn.III.32Rigveda III.32 — a hymn inviting Indra to drink soma with the Maruts and Rudras, recalling his slaying of Vṛtra and praying for his aid in battle.III.33Rigveda III.33 — Viśvāmitra's dialogue with the rivers Vipāś and Śutudrī, asking them to let his people cross.III.34Rigveda III.34 — a hymn praising Indra's victories over Vṛtra, Vala, and the Dasyus, and his winning of light, waters, and wealth for gods and men.III.35Rigveda III.35 — a hymn inviting Indra, with his bay horses and the Maruts, to the soma sacrifice.III.36Rigveda III.36 — a hymn inviting Indra to drink the pressed soma, recalling his slaying of Vṛtra, and asking him for wealth, long life, sons, and victory in battle.III.37Rigveda III.37 — a hymn invoking Indra's strength and presence for victory over hostile forces and rivals in battle.III.38Rigveda III.38 — a riddling hymn to Indra, praising the poet-seers who fashioned heaven, the world-ordering bull-god, and the warrior who conquers in battle.III.39Rigveda III.39 — Hymn to Indra, on the poet's thought rising to him and on the Aṅgirases' recovery of the cows and the hidden sun.III.40Rigveda III.40 — a hymn calling Indra to the pressed soma, asking him to drink, grow strong, and carry the sacrifice forward.III.41Rigveda III.41 — a short soma-pressing hymn calling Indra to the sacrifice with his two bay horses.III.42Rigveda III.42 — the Kuśika seers call Indra to come drink the pressed soma.III.43Rigveda III.43 — a hymn inviting Indra to the soma-pressing, asking him for kingship, wisdom, and a share of immortal wealth.III.44Rigveda III.44 — a short hymn to Indra built on a repeated wordplay: the god, his tawny horses, his chariot, his weapon, heaven and earth, and the soma itself are all called by the same word, hari, 'tawny/golden'.III.45Rigveda III.45 — a short hymn summoning Indra with his tawny horses, praising his strength as slayer of Vṛtra and breaker of strongholds, and asking him for wealth and renown.III.46Rigveda III.46 — a five-verse hymn praising Indra's might, his kingship over all worlds, and the soma that earth and heaven bear for him like a mother bearing a child.III.47Rigveda III.47 — a hymn inviting Indra, together with the Maruts, to drink soma before battle, recalling his past victories over Vṛtra and Śambara.III.48Rigveda III.48 — Indra's birth, his first drinking of soma, his seizing of the soma from Tvaṣṭṛ, and a call for his aid in battle.III.49Rigveda III.49 — a short hymn praising Indra as battle-champion, upholder of heaven, and giver of prizes.III.50Rigveda III.50 — a hymn calling Indra to drink the pressed soma and grant cattle, strength, and victory in battle.III.51Rigveda III.51 — a hymn praising Indra as sustainer of the peoples and slayer of hostile plots, inviting him with the Maruts to drink the pressed soma.III.52Rigveda III.52 — a hymn inviting Indra to accept offerings of roasted grain, grain-porridge, and rice-cake at the three daily pressings of soma.III.53Rigveda III.53 — a composite hymn ascribed to Viśvāmitra, chiefly to Indra, gathering the Sudās-and-Kuśikas narrative, the Kīkaṭa verses, a chariot-repair charm, and closing verses on the sons of Bharata.III.54Rigveda III.54 — a hymn to the Viśvedevas invoking Heaven and Earth, Agni, and the full company of gods for protection, wealth, and offspring.III.55Rigveda III.55 — a riddle hymn to the Viśvedevas built on a repeated refrain proclaiming the one great sovereignty of the gods.III.56Rigveda III.56 — a riddling hymn to the Viśvedevas built on triple and sixfold cosmic numbers, invoking Savitar, Mitra-Varuṇa, Bhaga, and the Ādityas.III.57Rigveda III.57 — a Viśvedevas hymn built on a riddle of a wandering milch-cow, invoking Indra, Pūṣan, Heaven and Earth, and Agni in turn.III.58Rigveda III.58 — a hymn calling the Aśvins to the pressed soma with praise, songs, and offerings.III.59Rigveda III.59 — nine verses in praise of Mitra, who upholds earth and heaven, watches over the tribes, and rewards those who keep his ordinance.III.60Rigveda III.60 — a hymn to the Ṛbhus, the mortal craftsmen who won immortality through skilled work, invoked here together with Indra.III.61Rigveda III.61 — a seven-verse hymn to Uṣas, goddess of the dawn, addressed also to Agni as her attendant.III.62Rigveda III.62 — six triplets of praise to Indra-Varuṇa, Bṛhaspati, Pūṣan, Savitṛ, Soma, and Mitra-Varuṇa, containing the Gāyatrī mantra.Mandala 3Navigation index for Rigveda Maṇḍala 3.