Canto 43Suditi and Purumilha Angirasa · Sukta 71
Book 2. Part Two: Other Hymns to Agni
1. O Fire, guard us by thy lights18 from every hostile force and
from mortal foe.
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3. So do thou with all the gods, O child of Energy, O happy
light, give us the wealth in which are all boons.
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4. The hostile forces, O Fire, cannot divorce from the Riches
the mortal giver whom thou rescuest.
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5. O Fire, O illumined seer, he whom thou in the winning of
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6. Thou bringest, O Fire, the wealth in which are the many
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7. Protect us, deliver us not, O knower of all things born, to the
mortal, the evil-thoughted who would bring on us calamity.
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8. O Fire, let none undivine take away from us what was given
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9. Thou art the measurer to us, thy adorers of a mighty wealth,
O child of Energy, O Friend, O shining One.
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10. May our words go towards thee with thy keen light and
thy vision, our sacrifices to thee with surrender for our
protection, thee the widely proclaimed, the master of many
riches, —
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11. To the Fire, the Son of force, the knower of all things born,
for the gift of our desirable things; twofold he becomes the
immortal in the mortals, the rapturous priest of the call in
165man.
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12. Fire for you by the worship to the gods, Fire in the jour-
neying of the pilgrim-sacrifice, Fire in the thoughts first and
chief, Fire in the war-horse, Fire for perfection in our field.
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13. May the Fire give us force in his comradeship, he who has
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200power for the desirable things; Fire we seek continually in
the son of our begettings as the shining one and the guardian
of the body.
14. Pray with your chants Fire of the keen flame for the pro-
tection, O Purumilha! Fire for the Treasure, — the Fire men
205pray for the inspired knowledge, a house for a splendid light.
15. Fire we hymn with our words that he may remove from
us the hostile power, Fire to give to us the peace and the
movement; he is in all men like a protector to whom they
may call, he is the daylight of the wise.
210HARYATA PRAGATHA