Canto 47Ushanas Kavya · Sukta 84
Book 2. Part Two: Other Hymns to Agni
1. Your guest most beloved I laud who is like a beloved friend,
Fire who is as if the chariot of our journey, the one whom
we must know.
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353. O thou ever-young, guard men who give, hear our words;
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4. O divine Fire, O Angiras, O child of energy, by what word,
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5. By the mind of what master of sacrifice shall we give,
O son of force; how shall I word this prostration of my
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6. Mayst thou thyself create for us all worlds of a happy
dwelling, make our words a source of the plenitude and
the riches.
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7. In whose wide-moving thought dost thou take delight, O
master of the house; thou from whom come our words in
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Other Hymns to Agni
8. Him they make bright, the strong of will, and he goes in
front in the race;29 he is a master of plenitude in his own
abodes.
1009. He dwells safe on perfect foundations and there are none to
slay him, it is he who slays; O Fire, he is a mighty hero and
prosperous.
PRAYOGA BHARGAVA