Canto 46Virupa Angirasa · Sukta 75
Book 2. Part Two: Other Hymns to Agni
1. O Fire, yoke like a charioteer the horses most powerful for
the calling of the gods; take thy seat, O ancient Priest of the
call!
24 Or, let them bear me
525 Or, as the birds carried Tugrya.
26 Note on Riks 13, 14 and 15:
As is shown by the “Shravansi”, “Turvatha” and the name “Shrutarvan”, the Rishi is
giving a symbolic turn to the name as well as to the horses and the waters.
Other Hymns to Agni
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2. And now, since thou hast the knowledge, speak for us to-
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3. For thou, O Fire, O most youthful son of force, thou in
45whom are cast the offerings, art the possessor of the Truth
to be worshipped with sacrifice.
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4. This Fire is the lord of the hundredfold and thousandfold
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705. O Angiras, by words which bear in them the invocation,
bring down nearer that sacrifice as the heaven’s craftsmen
brought down the rim of the wheel.
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6. To him now, O Virupa, by the eternal word give the impulse
of the high laud to the luminous Bull.
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7. By the army of the Fire who has the eye that sees from afar27
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may we lay low whatever miser Trafficker and enter among
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8. May the peoples of the gods abandon us not, even as the
unslayable luminous herds full of milk leave not a calf that
is lean.
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1309. Let not calamity from every evil-thoughted hostile around
smite us like a billow smiting a ship.
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14510. O divine Fire, men declare their prostration of surrender to
thee that they may have force; crush by thy might the foe.
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11. Once and again for our search for the Ray-Cow thou hast
entered wholly into the riches, O Fire; O maker of wideness,
make for us a wideness.
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12. Abandon us not in the winning of this great wealth as if one
180who bears a heavy burden; conquer this massed treasure.
Other Hymns to Agni
13. O Fire, may this mischief cling to another than us for his
terror; increase for us a forceful might.
14. The man in whose work he takes pleasure, one who offers
185the prostration of surrender and is not poor in sacrifice, him
the Fire protects with increase.
15. From thy place in the supreme region break through28 to
those who are below; here where I am, them protect.
16. For we know from of old of thy protection like a father’s,
190O Fire, now we seek thy bliss.
USHANAS KAVYA