Canto 5Hymns of Parashara · Mandala One — Suktas 65–73
Book 1. Part One: Hymns to the Mystic Fire
SUKTA 65
1. He hides himself like a thief with the cow of vision in the
secret cavern, he takes to himself our adoration, and thither
he carries it.1 The thinkers take a common joy in him, they
5follow him by his footprints; all the Masters of sacrifice
come to thee, O Flame, in the secrecy.
2. The Gods follow after him the law of the workings of Truth.
He stands encompassing all as heaven the earth. The Waters
make him grow increasing in his bulk by their toil,2 the
10Flame well-born in their womb, in the abode of the Truth.
3. He is as if a delightful thriving, he is like the earth our wide
dwelling-place. He is enjoyable like a hill and bliss-giving
like fast-running water. He is like a charger in the battle
rushing to the gallop and like a flowing river,3 who shall
15hedge in his course?
1 Or better, he takes to himself our surrender, he carries with him our surrender.
2 Or, by their chant,
3 Or, like a sea in its motion,
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4. He is the close comrade of the Rivers as is a brother of his
40sisters. He devours the earth’s forests as a king his enemies.
When driven by the breath of the wind he ranges around the
forests, the Flame tears asunder the hairs of Earth’s body.
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5. He breathes in the Waters like a seated swan. Waking in
the dawn he has power by the will of his works to give
70knowledge to the peoples. He is like the God of the Wine,
born of the Truth and a creator. He is like a cow with her
new-born. He is wide-spreading and his light is seen from
afar.
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1. He is like a wealth richly diverse and like the all-seeing of
the Sun. He is as if life and the breath of our existence, he is
as if our eternal child. He is like a galloper bearing us. He
clings to the forests: he is like a cow with her milk. He is
110pure-bright and wide is his lustre.
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2. He holds all our good like a pleasant home; he is like ripe
corn. He is a conqueror of men and like a chanting Rishi;
there is word of him among the folk: he is as if our exultant
steed of swiftness; he upholds our growth.
135Hymns of Parashara
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3. He is light in a house difficult to inhabit;4 he is as a will ever
active in us; he is like a wife in our abode and sufficient to
every man. When he blazes wonderfully manifold, he is like
one white in the peoples: he is like a golden chariot; he is a
165splendour in our battles.
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4. He is like an army running to the charge and puts strength
in us: he is like the flaming shaft of the Archer with its keen
burning front. A twin he is born, a twin he is that which is
to be born: he is the lover of the virgins and the husband of
190the mothers.
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5. We by your movement, we by your staying, come to him
when his light is kindled as the cows come home to their
210stall. He is like a river running in its channel and sends in
his front the descending Waters: the Ray-Cows move to him
in the manifesting of the world of the Sun.5
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2401. He is the conqueror in the forests; in mortals he is a friend:
he chooses inspiration as a king an unaging councillor. He
4 Or, he is a light difficult to kindle;
5 Or, when the Sun appears.
is as if our perfect welfare;6 he is like a happy will just in
245its thinking and becomes to us our priest of the call and the
bearer of our offerings.
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2702. He holds in his hands all mights: sitting in the secret cave
he upholds7 the gods in his strength. Here men who hold in
themselves the Thought come to know him when they have
uttered the Mantras formed by the heart.
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3003. As the unborn he has held the wide earth, he has up-pillared
heaven with his Mantras of truth. Guard the cherished foot-
prints of the Cow of vision; O Fire, thou art universal life,
enter into the secrecy of secrecies.8
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4. He who has perceived him when he is in the secret cave, he
who has come to the stream of the Truth, those who touch
the things of the Truth and kindle him, — to such a one he
330gives word of the Riches.
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3505. He who in the growths of earth holds up his greatnesses,
both the progeny born and what is in the mothers, he is
Knowledge in the house of the Waters, and life universal; the
6 Or, a perfecting good;
7 Or, establishes
3558 Or, the secrecy of the secret Cave.
Hymns of Parashara
thinkers have measured and constructed him like a mansion.
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1. The carrier, burning, he reaches heaven. He unravels the
nights and uncovers the stable and the moving; for this is
the one God who envelops with himself the grandeurs of all
390the Gods.
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2. All cleave to9 thy will of works when, O God, thou art
born a living being from dry matter. All enjoy the Name,
the Godhead; by thy movements they touch Truth and
420Immortality.
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3. He is the urgings of the Truth, the thinking of the Truth, the
universal life by whom all do the works. He who gives to
445thee, he who gains from thee,10 to him, for thou knowest,
give the Riches.
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4. He is the priest of the sacrifice seated in the son of Man:
he verily is the lord of these riches. They desire the seed
mutually in their bodies; the wise by their own discernings
470come wholly to know.
9 Or, take joy in
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5. Those who listen to his teaching, those who are swift to the
journey, serve gladly his will as sons the will of a father. He
houses a multitude of riches and flings wide the doors of the
505Treasure. He is the dweller within who has formed heaven
with its stars.
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1. Blazing out brilliant as the lover of the Dawn, filling the
535two equal worlds11 like the Light of Heaven, thou art born
by our will and comest into being all around us; thou hast
become the father of the Gods, thou who art the Son.
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2. The Fire having the knowledge is a creator12 without proud
565rashness; he is as if the teat of the Cows of Light, the sweet-
ener of the draughts of the Wine.13 He is as one blissful in
a man, one whom we must call in; he is seated rapturous in
the middle of the house.
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3. He is born to us as if a son rapturous in our house; like a
glad horse of swiftness he carries safe through their battle
the peoples: when I call to the beings who dwell in one
59511 Or, the two Companions
12 Or, ordainer of things
13 Or, taster of all foods.
Hymns of Parashara
abode with the Gods,14 the Flame attains all godheads.
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6254. None can impair the ways of thy workings when for these
gods15 thou hast created inspired knowledge. This is thy
work that yoked with the Gods, thy equals, thou hast smit-
ten,16 that thou hast scattered the powers of evil.
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5. Very bright and lustrous is he like the lover of Dawn. May
650his form be known and may he wake to knowledge for this
human being, may all bear him in themselves, part wide the
Doors and move into the vision of the world of the Sun.17
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1. May we win the many Riches, may the Fire, flaming high
with his light, master by the thinking mind, take possession
of all things that are, he who knows the laws of the divine
680workings and knows the birth of the human being.
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2. He is the child of the waters, the child of the forests, the child
of things stable and the child of things that move. Even in
70514 Or, with men,
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16 Or, thou hast slain,
17 Or, come to the seeing of the Sun.
the stone he is there for man, he is there in the middle of
710his house, — he is as one universal in creatures; he is the
Immortal, the perfect thinker.
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3. The Fire is a master of the nights, he gives of the Riches
740to him who prepares for him the sacrifice with the perfect
words. O thou who art conscious, guard, as the knower,
these worlds, and the birth of the Gods, and mortal men.
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4. Many nights of different forms have increased him, the Fire
who came forth from the Truth, who is the stable and the
765moving: the priest of the call, he is achieved for us, seated
in the sun-world,18 making true all our works.
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7905. Thou establishest word of thee in the Ray-Cow and in the
forests; it is as if all were bringing the sun-world as offering.
Men in many parts serve thee and gather in knowledge as
from a long-lived father.
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6. He is like one efficient in works and hungry to seize, heroic
like one shooting arrows, terrible like an assailant charging,
he is a splendour in our battles.
81018 Or, the sun,
Hymns of Parashara
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1. The Mothers who dwell in one abode, desiring came to him
830who desired them and gave him pleasure as to their eternal
spouse: the sisters took joy in him as the Ray-Cows in the
Dawn when she comes dusky, flushing red, then shining out
in rich hues.
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2. Our fathers by their words broke the strong and stubborn
860places, the Angiras seers shattered the mountain rock with
their cry; they made in us a path to the Great Heaven, they
discovered the Day and the sun-world and the intuitive ray
and the shining herds.
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3. They held the Truth, they enriched the thought of this hu-
880man being; then indeed had they mastery and understanding
bearing wide the Flame; unthirsting, the powers at work go
towards the gods making the Birth to grow by delight.
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4. When the Life-Breath borne pervadingly within has churned
him out in house and house he becomes white and a con-
queror. Then indeed he becomes the Flaming Seer and com-
915panioning us goes on an embassy as for a powerful king.
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5. When he had made this sap of essence for the great Father
Heaven, he came slipping downward, one close in touch,
having knowledge. The Archer loosed violently on him his
arrow of lightning, but the god set the flaming energy in his
945own daughter.
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6. He who kindles the light for thee in thy own home and
offers obeisance of surrender day by day and thy desire is
towards him, mayst thou in thy twofold mass increase his
growth, he whom thou speedest in one car with thee, may
975he travel with the riches.
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7. All satisfactions cleave to the Fire as the seven mighty rivers
1000join the ocean. Our growth of being has not been perceived
by thy companions, but thou who hast perceived, impart to
the gods thy knowledge.19
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8. When a flame of energy came to this King of men for im-
pelling force, when in their meeting Heaven was cast in him
like pure seed, the Fire gave birth to a might,20 young and
faultless and perfect in thought and sped it on its way.
103019 Or, gain for us knowledge in the Gods.
20 Or, a host. It may mean the army of the life-gods, marut¯a ˙m ´sardhah..
Hymns of Parashara
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9. He who travels the paths suddenly like the mind, the Sun,
ever sole is the master of the treasure: Mitra and Varuna,
1055the Kings with beautiful hands, are there guarding in the
Rays21 delight and immortality.
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10. O Fire, mayst thou not forget22 ancient friendships, thou
1080who art turned towards us as the knower and seer. As a
mist dims a form, age diminishes us; before that hurt falls
upon us, arrive.23
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11051. He forms within us the seer-wisdoms of the eternal Cre-
ator holding in his hand many powers24 of the godheads.
May Fire become the treasure-master of the riches, ever
fashioning all immortal things.25
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2. All the immortals, the wise ones, desired but found not in
us the Child who is all around; turning to toil on his track,
21 Gos.u, in the Ray-Cows, the shining herds of the Sun
22 Or, neglect or wipe out
113523 Or, give heed, before that assault comes upon us.
24 Or, many strengths
25 Or, fashioning together all immortal things.
upholding the Thought, they stood in the supreme plane,
they reached the beauty of the Flame.
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11603. When for three years, O Fire, they worshipped thee, the
pure ones thee the pure, with the clarity of the light, they
held too the sacrificial Names, their bodies came to perfect
birth and they sped them on the way.
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4. The masters of sacrifice discovered and in their impetuous
might bore the Vast Earth and Heaven, then the mortal
1185knew them and by his holding of the upper hemisphere26
perceived the Fire, standing in the supreme plane.
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5. Utterly knowing him they with their wives came and knelt
1205before him and adored with obeisance the adorable. They
made themselves empty and formed their own bodies
guarded in his gaze, friend in the gaze of friend.
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6. When the masters of sacrifice have found hidden in thee
the thrice seven secret planes, by them they guard with one
mind of acceptance Immortality. Protect the Herds, those
that stand and that which is mobile.
123526 Nema, the half, referring apparently to the Great Heaven, br.had dyauh., the upper
half beyond which is the supreme plane.
Hymns of Parashara
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7. O Fire, thou art the knower of our knowings, ordain for
the people an unbroken succession of strengths that they
1265may live. The knower within of the paths of the journey of
the gods, thou hast become a sleepless messenger and the
carrier of the offerings.
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8. The seven mighty Rivers from Heaven, deep-thinking,
1295knowers of the Truth, knew the doors of the treasure;
Sarama discovered the mass of the Ray-Cow, the strong
place, the wideness, and now by that the human creature
enjoys bliss.
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9. These are they who set their steps on all things that have fair
issue, making a path towards immortality. Earth stood wide
in greatness by the Great Ones, the Mother infinite with her
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10. When the immortals made the two eyes of Heaven, they set
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sitting in our front, dwelling in our house; he is as if a
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5. O Fire, may the masters of wealth enjoy thy satisfactions,
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and dawn of different forms and joined together the black
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be of them, the lords of riches and we. Filling earth and
heaven and mid-air thou clingest to the whole world like a
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9. O Fire, safeguarded by thee may we conquer the war-horses
by our war-horses, the strong men by our strong men, the
1595heroes by our heroes; may our illumined wise ones become
masters of the treasure gained by the fathers, and possess it
living a hundred winters.
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10. O ordainer of things, O Fire, may these utterances be ac-
1625ceptable to thee, to the mind and to the heart; may we have
strength to control with firm yoke thy riches, holding in thee
the inspired knowledge enjoyed by the gods.32
32 Or, distributed by the gods.