Bhagavad Gita · Mahabharata Codex

Agni

अग्नि · agni

God of fire; carrier of offerings to the gods

Arjuna owes him his bow.

Agni is fire itself: the flame on the altar that carries every offering upward, and one of the eight Vasus. In the epic he came to Krishna and Arjuna hungry, asking to consume the Khandava forest. They guarded its edges while it burned. In return he obtained for Arjuna the bow Gandiva and two quivers that never emptied. Arjuna sees him within the cosmic form.