Canto 25Dwita Mriktavahas · Sukta 18
Book 2. Part Two: Other Hymns to Agni
1. Let the Fire with his multitude of delightful things, the guest
of man, receive the laud at dawn, he who is immortal in
mortals and takes joy in all their offerings.
2. The plenitude of his own understanding for the twofold
5power that carries the purified offering; he holds uninter-
ruptedly the moon-wine and he too who lauds thee, holds
it, O immortal.
3. I call him by the word who is the light of long-extended life
for you the lords of plenty, you whose chariot goes abroad
10without hurt, O giver of the Horse, —
Other Hymns to Agni
4. In whom is the richly brilliant light of thought and they
guard the utterances in their mouths; spread is the sacred
seat and they found the inspirations all around it in the
15Godhead of the sun-world.
5. They who have given me in the moment of the laud the fifty
steeds of swiftness, create for those lords of plenty a great
and luminous inspired knowledge, create for those gods the
Vast, with its gods, O Immortal, O Fire.
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