agnimiLe purohitam

agnimiLe purohitam

अ॒ग्निमी॑ळे पु॒रोहि॑तं य॒ज्ञस्य॑ दे॒वमृ॒त्विज॑म् । होता॑रं रत्न॒धात॑मम् ॥

ऋग्वेद १-१-१ मधुच्छन्दाः वैश्वामित्रः ऋषिः । गायत्रीच्छन्द्रः । अग्निर्देवता ॥

हम उस अग्निदेव की स्तुति करते हैं। जो श्रेष्ठतम पारमार्थिक कर्म के पुरोहित हैं, देवता (अनुदान देने वाले), ऋत्विज् (समयानुकूल यज्ञ का सम्पादन करने वाले), होता (देवों का आवाहन करने वाले) और याजकों को रत्नों से (यज्ञ के लाभों से) विभूषित करने वाले हैं॥१॥

a̱gnimī̍ḻe pu̱rohi̍taṁ y.ajñasy'a de̱vamr̥̱tvij'am । hotā̍raṁ ratn.adhāt'amam ॥

r̥gveda 1-1-1 madhucchandāḥ vaiśvāmitraḥ r̥ṣiḥ । gāyatrīcchandraḥ । agnirdevatā ॥

We praise that agni who is the greatest purohitam i.e. conductor of all good works, who is devtA - the one who gives, rtvij - those who perform yajna ie work for welfare of the society, hotA - one who invokes devtAs, and the one who blesses us with jewels and wealth - that is results of yajna, of various kinds.

Listen the chanting here:-
https://www.mymandir.com/p/8Kl1Ub/

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A Cosmic Flame
Sparkling at the edge of a giant cloud of gas and dust, the Flame Nebula, also referred to as NGC 2024, is in fact the hideout of a cluster of young, blue, massive stars, whose light sets the gas ablaze. Located 1,300 light-years away towards the constellation of Orion, the nebula owes its typical color to the glow of hydrogen atoms, heated by the stars. The latter are obscured by a dark, forked dusty structure in the centre of the image and are only revealed by infrared observations.

This image is based on data acquired with the 1.5-metre Danish telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile, combining three exposures in the filters B (40 seconds), V (80 seconds) and R (40 seconds).

Credit: ESO/IDA/Danish 1.5 m/R. Gendler, J.-E. Ovaldsen, C. Thöne and C. Féron

European Southern Observatory (ESO) 

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