Canto 48Prayoga Bhargava · Sukta 102
Book 2. Part Two: Other Hymns to Agni
1. Thou, O divine Fire, foundest a vast expansion for the giver,
thou art the seer, the youth, the master of the house.
2. Do thou, O Fire of the wide light, who art awake to knowl-
edge, go with our word of prayer and of works and call the
5gods.
3. With thee indeed as an ally, most strong in thy urge, we
overcome for the conquest of the plenitude.
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5. I call the force which has the sound of the wind and the cry
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6. I call like the creation of the Creator-Sun, like the delight of
the Lord of Delight, the ocean-dwelling Fire.
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7. For the forceful offspring of the pilgrim-sacrifices towards
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8. So that he may come to be with us like the Form-Maker
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9. This Fire travels in the gods towards all glories; may he
come to us with the plenitudes.
Other Hymns to Agni
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10. Laud here the most glorious of priests of the call, the
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11. The intense Fire with its purifying light who dwells eldest in
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12. Declare him, O illumined sage, as the powerful and con-
quering war-horse, as the friend who takes man to the goal
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13. Towards thee come the words of the giver of the offerings
marking thee out and stand firm as companions in the might
of the wind.
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14. Thou whose triple seat of sacrifice is untied and unconfined
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15. The abode of the bounteous godhead with its inviolate
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16. O divine Fire, by our thinkings of the light, burning with
thy flame, bring to us the gods and do them sacrifice.
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17. The mothers bore thee, the gods brought thee to birth as the
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18. O Fire, O seer, they set thee within as the thinker, the
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19. Mine is not the cow unslayable, I have no axe at hand, so I
bring to thee this little that I have.
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20. What we place for thee, a few chance logs, them accept, O
ever-young Fire.
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21. What is eaten by the ant, what the white ant overruns, let
all that be to thee as if thy food of light.31
31 Or, as if clarified butter.
Other Hymns to Agni
27022. Kindling the Fire let mortal man cleave with his mind to the
Thought; by things luminous32 I kindle the Fire.
SOBHARI KANWA