The Hymns of the Sama Veda

[I. i. 2.] THE VEDA OF CHANTSoriginal: "SÂMAVEDA".

7 O Fireoriginal: "Agni", come; far other songs of praise will I sing
forth to thee.
Wax mighty with these sacred juice dropsoriginal: "Soma-drops"; the Soma was a ritual drink offered to the gods.!
8 May VatsaA prominent Vedic seer or Rishi. draw thy mind away even from thy loft-
iest dwelling-place!
Fireoriginal: "Agni", I yearn for thee with song.
9 Fireoriginal: "Agni", AtharvanThe legendary priest said to have first produced fire. brought thee forth by rubbing from the sky, the head
Of all who offer sacrifice.
10 O Fireoriginal: "Agni", bring us radiant light to be our mighty
succour, for
Thou art our visible deity!

DECADE II.

O Fireoriginal: "Agni", God, the people sing reverent praise to thee
for strength:
With terrors trouble thou the foe!

7 Revealed to BharadvâjaOne of the legendary Seven Rishis or seers.. RigvedaThe "Veda of Verses," the oldest of the four Vedas. VI. 16. 16. Other: different,
that is, more excellent.
8 Revealed to Vatsa of the family of Kaṇva. The reading of the
Rigveda, VIII. 11. 7, is original: "kâmayâ" with desire in the place of original: "kâmaye" I desire: — ‘Fireoriginal: "Agni", with
song that yearns for thee.’
9 Bharadvâja is the Seeroriginal: "Rishi". Rigveda VI. 16. 13. Atharvan: the
sage who was the first to obtain fire, to institute sacrifice, and to offer
up prayer and libations of Soma. From the sky: original: "pushkarât": literally,
from the blue lotus, which is apparently a figurative expression for
heaven. The head of 'all who offer sacrifice': according to Professor
Ludwig, ‘the head of the priest Universaloriginal: "Viṣva",’ that is, the summit of Heaven,
Universaloriginal: "Viṣva" (All, universal) being apparently sometimes used as a name of
Skyoriginal: "Dyaus" or Heaven.
10 Vâmadeva is the Seeroriginal: "Rishi". This stanza is not found in the Rigveda.

1 Rigveda VIII. 64. 10. Ascribed to Virûpa of the family of Angiras
by the Table of Contentsoriginal: "Anukramaṇikâ" or Index of the Rigveda, and to Ahi or Virûpa
by Sâyaṇa'sA 14th-century scholar and authoritative commentator on the Vedas. Commentary on the Veda of Chantsoriginal: "Sâmaveda".