Canto 10Rishabha Vaishwamitra · Suktas 13–14
Book 2. Part Two: Other Hymns to Agni
6. Indra and Fire shook down the ninety cities possessed by
the destroyers, together by one deed.
7. O Indra, O Fire, all around our work our thoughts go
forward towards you along the paths of the Truth.
58. O Indra, O Fire, your mights are companions and your
delights; in you is founded all swiftness in the work.
9. O Indra, O Fire, you encompass the luminous kingdom of
heaven in the plenitudes; it is your strength that is manifested
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10RISHABHA VAISHWAMITRA
SUKTA 13
1. Sing out some mightiest hymn to this divine Fire; may he
come to us with the gods and, strong to sacrifice, sit upon
the sacred grass.
1542 Or, that is your strength which wakes to knowledge.
Other Hymns to Agni
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2. He is the possessor of the Truth to whom belong earth and
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there whence are rained the riches in heaven, from all the
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6. Do thou, strong to call the gods, protect us in the Word, in
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1. The rapturous priest of the call has reached the things of
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3. Let dawn and night full of their plenitude come running
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they anoint with oblation thee, the first and supreme, as if
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4. To thee, O Forceful Fire, Mitra and Varuna and all the life-