Canto 41Virupa Angirasa · Suktas 43–44
Book 2. Part Two: Other Hymns to Agni
the serpent-eggs of Shushna, may he conquer the waters that
bear the light of the Sun-world, — let all that are alien be
rent asunder.
11. Intensify him who is perfect in the rite of the path, the
5true warrior who follows the law of the Truth; it is he who
observes, who breaks the serpent-eggs of Shushna, conquers
the waters that bear the light of the Sun-world, — let all that
are alien be rent asunder.
12. So has the new word been spoken to Indra and to Fire, even
10as by my father, by Mandhata, by the Angiras; protect us
with triple peace, may we be masters of the riches.
VIRUPA ANGIRASA
SUKTA 43
1. Him pray our words, even these lauds of Fire, the illumined
15seer, the creator, invincible in his sacrifice.
2. Such art thou for whom I bring to birth perfect laud and
glad is thy response, O seeing Fire, O knower of all things
born!
Other Hymns to Agni
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3. Oh, like jets of light thy keen energies of flame devour with
their teeth the woods.
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4. Bright, with smoke for their flag against heaven, urged by
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5. These are those separate fires of thine that kindled are seen
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6. Black is the dust under his feet in the march of the knower
of all things born when Fire sprouts upon the earth.
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857. Making his foundation, consuming the herbs Fire wearies
not but goes even to the young shoots.
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958. Oh, laying all low with his tongues of flame, flashing out
with his ray Fire shines in the woodlands.
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9. In the waters, O Fire, is thy seat,12 thou besiegest the plants;
thou becomest a child in the womb and art born again.
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10. O Fire, that ray of thine fed with the oblation rises up shining
from the offering of light,13 licking the mouth of the ladle.
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13511. May we ordain sacrifice with the lauds to Fire, the ordainer
of things, Fire who makes the ox and the cow his food and
he bears on his back the Soma wine.
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12. O Fire, we come to thee with prostration and with the fuel,
O priest of the call, O supreme will!
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16013. O pure Flame, fed with offerings we call thee as did Bhrigu,
as did Manu, as did Angiras.
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14. For thou art kindled, O Fire, by the fire, thou who art the
illumined seer art kindled by one who is illumined, as a
comrade thou art kindled by thy comrade.
17512 Or, goal,
13 Or, clarified butter,
Other Hymns to Agni
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15. So do thou to the illumined who gives to thee give the
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16. O Fire, my brother, created by my force, drawn by thy red
horses, pure in the law of thy workings, take pleasure in this
laud of mine.
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22017. My lauds reach thee, O Fire, as to the calf lowing in glad
response the cows reach their stall.
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18. For thee, O most luminous Angiras, all those worlds of
happy dwelling, each in its separate power, labour for thy
desire, O Flame.
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19. The thinkers, the wise, the illumined seers urged by their
thoughts the Fire to dwell in their house.
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26020. So thee as the horse in its gallopings performing the pilgrim-
sacrifice, O Fire, they desire as the carrier of the offering and
the priest of the call.
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21. Thou art the lord who looks with equal eyes on all the
peoples in many lands; we call to thee in our battles.
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22. Pray the Fire who fed with the pouring of the clarities blazed
wide; may he hear this our call.
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30523. Such art thou whom we call, Fire, the knower of all things
born who hears our cry and smites away from us the foe.
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24. I pray this Fire, the marvellous king of the peoples who
presides over the laws of their action, may he hear.
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33025. Fire who illumines the universal life like a male horse urged
to its gallop, we speed like a racer to the goal.
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26. Smiting away the foes and things that hurt, burning the
Rakshasas on every side, O Fire, shine out with thy keen
flame.
Other Hymns to Agni
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27. Thou whom men kindle as the human thinker,14 O most
luminous Angiras, O Fire, become aware of my word.
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37528. Because, O Fire, created by our force thou art the flame born
in heaven, or the flame born in the waters, as such we call
thee with our words.
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29. To thee, verily, these beings born and these worlds of a happy
dwelling each separately in its place, lay a foundation where
395thou canst devour thy food.15
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41030. O Fire, may we be those who have the right thought and
the divine vision, and through all the days, pass safe beyond
the danger.
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31. We seek with rapturous hearts Fire, the rapturous, in whom
are many things that are dear to us, — Fire with his intense
and purifying light.
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32. O Fire, shining with thy light, loosing forth thy lustre like
the sun with its rays, thou puttest forth thy force and slayest
445the darknesses.
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45533. We seek from thee, O forceful Fire, that gift of thine, — the
desirable wealth which never fails.
SUKTA 44
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1. Set to his action by the fuel, awaken the guest by the offer-
470ings of the clarities; cast in him the offerings.
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2. O Fire, take pleasure in my laud, grow by this thought; let
thy joy respond to our utterances.
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3. I set in front Fire, the messenger, and speak to the carrier of
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4. O luminous Fire, vast and bright thy rays upwards ascend
as thou art kindled high.
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5. O joyful Flame, to thee may my ladles go bright with the
clarities; O Fire, take pleasure in our offerings.
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6. I pray the Fire, the rapturous priest of the call, the sac-
rificant, shining with his light, rich in his lustres, may he
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7. The ancient priest of the call, desirable and accepted, Fire
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8. O most luminous Angiras, taking pleasure in these offerings
lead the sacrifice uninterruptedly in the way of the Truth,16
O Fire.
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9. High-kindled, O Right and True, O brilliant light, awakened
to knowledge bring here the divine people.
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10. The illumined seer and priest of the call, free from harms,
16 Or, according to the rule of the rites,
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seek, the ray of intuition of the sacrifices.
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62011. O Fire, made by our force, protect us against the doers of
harm, pierce the hostile power.
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12. Fire by the ancient thought making beautiful his own body,
a seer, grows by each illumined sage.
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13. I call to me the Child of Energy, Fire of the purifying light
645in this sacrifice which is a perfect rite of the path.
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14. So do thou, O Fire, O friendly light, with thy brilliant flame
sit with the gods on the sacred grass.
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15. The mortal who serves the divine Fire in the house of the
body, to him he gives the Riches.
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69016. Fire is the head and peak of heaven and lord of earth and
he sets moving the waters.
Other Hymns to Agni
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70517. O Fire, upward dart blazing thy pure and brilliant tongues;
make to shine out thy lights.
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18. Thou art the lord of the Sun-world, O Fire, and hast power
720for the gifts desirable; may I who laud thee abide in thy
peace.
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19. Thee, O Fire, the thinkers urge on thy road, thee by their
perceivings of knowledge; may our words increase thee.
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20. We choose the comradeship of the Fire inviolate in the law
of his nature, the ever-chanting messenger.
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21. Most pure in his workings is the Fire, he is the pure illumined
sage, the pure seer of Truth; pure he shines out fed by our
offerings.
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22. So thee may my thinkings and my words increase always;
O Fire, awake to the comradeship between us.
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23. O Fire, if I were thou and thou wert I, then would thy
longings here become true.
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24. O Fire, thou art the shining one, shining with thy lustres,
805lord of the shining riches; may we abide in thy right think-
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82025. O Fire, to thee holding firmly the law of thy workings move
my words like lowing cattle, as rivers move towards the sea.
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26. Fire the youth, the lord of the peoples, the seer, the all-
consuming, Fire of the many illuminations I glorify with my
thoughts.
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27. May we strive towards the Fire by our lauds, the charioteer
of the sacrifices, Fire with his solid strength, his sharp tusks
of flame.
85017 Or, thy grace.
Other Hymns to Agni
28. May this thy worshipper, O Fire, abide in thee; on him have
grace, O Right and True, O purifying Flame.
29. For thou art the wise thinker seated in the house, like an
855illumined sage ever awake; O Fire, thou shinest out in
heaven.
30. Before the stumblings come, O Fire, before the spoilers
arrive, O seer, carry forward our life, O Shining One.
BHARGA PRAGATHA