Canto 14Devashravas and Devavata Bharata · Sukta 23
Book 2. Part Two: Other Hymns to Agni
1. Churned out and well-established in the house of his session,
the Youth, the Seer, the leader of the pilgrim-sacrifice, im-
perishable in the perishing woodlands, the Fire, the knower
of all things born, has founded here immortality.
553 Or, the gods of the planes (seats),
54 Or, himself a begetter;
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2. The sons of the Bringer, god-inspired and god-beloved, have
churned out Fire of the perfect discernment. O Fire, look
widely on us with the vast riches, become the leader of our
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around the Ancient One well-born in his mothers and well-
beloved. Affirm with lauds, O god-inspired, the Fire lit by
the god-beloved, that he may be the controller of men.
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seat of the Word of Revelation, in the happy brightness of
the days: O Fire, opulently shine in the human being, in the
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5. O Fire, achieve at my call the Revealing Speech, the many-
actioned, the lasting conquest of the Light. May there be for
us a Son of our begetting pervading in his birth;56 O Fire,
110may there be created in us that true thinking of thine.
55 Or, in the river Drishadwati, in Apaya and in Saraswati.
56 Or, himself a begetter;