Canto 45Gopavana Atreya · Sukta 74
Book 2. Part Two: Other Hymns to Agni
1. All kinds of beings replenish the guest domiciled in your
house in whom are the many pleasant things; I laud him
with my thoughts with the word of bliss.
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eldest and ever new in whose force of flame Shrutarvan, son
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10. He is the Horse of power and the Cow of light, it is he who
fills our chariots, he is brilliant and like Indra the lord of
150beings; you shall cross through his inspirations, O men! and
find each wonderful.
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11. Thou whom Gopavana gladdens with his word, O Fire, O
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12. Thou whom men oppressed pray for the winning of the
plenitudes, awake in the piercing of the Coverers.
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13. As if calling armed forces in Shrutarvan, son of Riksha,
180from whom drips the rapturous inspiration, I comb the
shaggy-maned heads of the four.
14. Me the swift and galloping four of that most strong one,
well-charioted, bore24 towards the delight as if birds flying
to water.25
18515. O great river Parushni, I have marked out (with them) thy
true course. O waters, than this most strong one no mortal
man is a greater giver of the Horses of power.26
VIRUPA ANGIRASA