Canto 44Haryata Pragatha · Sukta 72
Book 2. Part Two: Other Hymns to Agni
1. Do you make the offering, the priest of the pilgrim-rite has
come and he conquers again, for he knows the command-
ment of the Fire.
2. Let him sit within close to the keen burning ray, the priest
5of the call in thinking man, accepting the comradeship of
the Fire.
Other Hymns to Agni
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3. Within they wish him to be in a man the “terrible one”,
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4. High burnt the companion bow, a founder of the growth he
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5. He is the shining calf who wanders and finds none to bind
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8. By the ten of the sun Indra made fall the covering sheath of
heaven with his triple mallet.
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9. A new adoration moves round the triple pilgrim-sacrifice,
the priests of the call anoint with the honey-wine.
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well whose wheel is on high and its opening below.
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12. O Ray-Cows, come to the well; here is the great wine-jar of
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13. Pour into the wine that is pressed, a joining splendour, the
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14. They know their own home; like calves with their mothers
they met with each other as companions.
155Other Hymns to Agni
15. In the jaws of the eater they made their foundation in
heaven, their prostrations of surrender to Indra and the Fire
made the Sun-world.
16. The warrior milked out the seven-planed nourishing force
160and energy by the seven rays of the sun.
17. O Mitra and Varuna, in the rising of the moon he received
it on the sun; it is the healing draught for him who suffers.
18. And now let him stretch out20 with his tongue of flame
around heaven that plane of him in his full delight which is
165to be laid as a foundation.
GOPAVANA ATREYA