Canto 26Vavri · Sukta 19
Book 2. Part Two: Other Hymns to Agni
1. State upon state is born, covering upon covering has become
conscious and aware, in the lap of the mother he sees.
2. Awaking to an entire knowledge they have called and guard
a sleepless strength, they have entered the strong fortified
5city.
3. Creatures born, men who people the earth have increased
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the luminosity of the son of the white mother; his neck wears
the golden necklace, he has the utterance of the Vast, and
10with his honey-wine he is the seeker of the plenitude.
4. He is as if the delightful and desirable milk of the mother,
he is that which is uncompanioned abiding with the two
companions; he is the blaze of the light, and the belly of the
plenitude, he is the eternal invincible and the all-conqueror.
155. O Ray, mayst thou be with us and play with us, unifying
thy knowledge with the shining of the breath of life; may
those flames of him be for us violent and intense and keenly
whetted, strong to carry and settled in the breast.
THE PRAYASWATS