Hymn to Agni
Rigveda VII.14 is a sūkta (hymn of praise) from Maṇḍala 7 of the Rigveda, one of the 1,028 hymns organized within the ten books of the oldest Veda. The Rigveda was composed approximately 1700–1100 BCE in Vedic Sanskrit and preserved through oral transmission across millennia.
This is a Good Works Translation produced by the New Tianmu Anglican Church from the Sanskrit of the Śākala recension.
O Agni, thou art kindled by the hands of priests! With wood they feed thy flame; with butter they delight thy hunger.
Come forth now in thy brilliant splendor. Let thy flames leap high and touch the sky.
O god of fire, accept the offering of mortals who love thee well.
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This hymn is drawn from the Śākala recension of the Rigveda, composed approximately 1700–1100 BCE. This is a Good Works Translation produced by the New Tianmu Anglican Church, translated independently from the Sanskrit. Reference translations consulted during original translation are to be documented during audit.
Compiled and formatted for the Good Work Library by the New Tianmu Anglican Church, 2026.
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Source Text: ṛgveda VII.14
Sanskrit source text from the Aufrecht edition (1877) via GRETIL (Van Nooten & Holland input). Presented here for reference, study, and verification alongside the English translation above.
samidhā jātavedase devāya devahūtibhiḥ |
havirbhiḥ śukraśociṣe namasvino vayaṁ dāśemāgnaye || 1 ||
vayaṁ te agne samidhā vidhema vayaṁ dāśema suṣṭutī yajatra |
vayaṁ ghṛtenādhvarasya hotar vayaṁ deva haviṣā bhadraśoce || 2 ||
ā no devebhir upa devahūtim agne yāhi vaṣaṭkṛtiṁ juṣāṇaḥ |
tubhyaṁ devāya dāśataḥ syāma yūyam pāta svastibhiḥ sadā naḥ || 3 ||
Source Colophon
Sanskrit text of the Rigveda, Śākala recension. The standard scholarly edition is the Bombay Oriental (Vishva Bandhu, 5 vols., 1963–66). IAST transliteration available from GRETIL (Göttingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages) and Vedaweb (University of Cologne). Both sources are open access. IAST transliteration from the Aufrecht edition (1877) via GRETIL (Van Nooten & Holland input, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
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