Canto 23Dharuna Angirasa · Sukta 15
Book 2. Part Two: Other Hymns to Agni
1. I bring my word to the creator and seer, him whom we must
know, the glorious, the ancient one; Fire the Mighty One
Other Hymns to Agni
seated in the light, full of bliss, the holder of the Treasure,
5the continent of the Riches.
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302. By the Truth they held the Truth that holds all, in the might
of the sacrifice, in the supreme ether, they who reached
the gods seated in the law that is the upholder of heaven,
reached by the godheads born the unborn.
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3. They weave bodies that reject evil, they weave a vast ex-
60pansion hard to cross for the ancient one; he new-born can
cross through the regions13 though they stand around him
as around an angry lion.
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4. When growing wide thou bearest like a mother birth after
birth for firm foundation, for vision, when thou holdest and
wearest out manifestation after manifestation, taking many
85forms thou encompassest all things with thyself.
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1055. May thy plenitude guard the last limit of thy force, the
wide continent of the riches that milks out its abundance, O
godhead: like a thief thou holdest in the secrecy that plane,
awakening him to the consciousness of the great riches thou
hast rescued Atri.
11013 Or, breaks through his converging hunters