Canto 49Sobhari Kanwa · Sukta 103

Book 2. Part Two: Other Hymns to Agni

1. He is seen, the great path-finder in whom they have founded

the laws of our action; to the Fire well-born, increaser of the

Aryan, go our words.

2. Fire lit by the Servant of Heaven travels in his might towards

5the gods along our mother earth and on heaven’s peak he

takes his stand.

3. Fire because of whom men doing the works that have to be

done, grow luminous, him conqueror of the thousands as

if in the winning of the purities they serve by the self,33 by

10their thoughts.

32 Or, by the shining ones

33 Or, of themselves,

Mandala Eight

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20dAft

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4. He whom thou willst to lead to the Riches, the mortal who

30gives to thee, O shining One, he holds in himself, O Fire, the

hero, who utters the word, who increases the thousands.

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40s

aEEt

45d

sdA

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50Ev

vAmAEn

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5. He rends open the plenitude even in the strong place by the

55war-horse, he founds an imperishable inspired knowledge;

O thou of the many riches, in thee we ever hold in the

godheads all beautiful things.

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dyt

hotA

65o

jnAnAm

mDon

pAA

TmAym

70#

tomA

yyny

6. He who gives to us all treasures, men’s rapturous priest of

the call, to him our lauds go forth as if supreme vessels of

75the honey-wine.

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80rLy

dAnvo

6yt

85d

vyv

tok

tny

90dm

pEq

rADo

95mGonAm

7. The lavish givers, the seekers of the godhead, make him

bright by their words as if currying a chariot-horse. O

powerful for action, O lord of peoples, in the son of our

begettings thou carriest achievement of the possessors of

100riches beyond both the firmaments.

EhSAy

gAyt

-tA

105b

5foEcq

upt

110tAso

any

8. Chant to the most bounteous, the possessor of the Truth,

the brilliant in light, coming with the laud, to the Fire.

Other Hymns to Agni

115aA

mGvA

vFrvd

120yf

sEm=o

MyAh

125Ev3o

mEtn

vFyyQCA

130vAj

EBrAgmt

9. High-kindled, fed with the offering full of light, the lord

of riches conquers a heroic glory; often may his new right-

thinking come towards us with the plenitudes, —

135Sm

EyAZA

VAsAvAEtETm

aEn

140rTAnA

ymm

10. O thou who pressest the wine, laud the Fire, the guest most

beloved of the beloved, the controller of the chariots, —

145uEdtA

EnEdtA

EdtA

150vvA

yE.yo

vvt

155rA

nom

160EDyA

vAj

EsqAst

11. The master of sacrifice who turns towards us the hidden

treasures now risen and known, he in whose downward

165descent is a rush as of waves hard to cross, when he conquers

by the thought the plenitudes.

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170s

rEn

zft

175y

hotA

vvr

12. May not Fire, the guest, the shining One widely proclaimed,

180be wroth with us; this is he who is the perfect priest of the

call perfect in the pilgrim-rite.

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185y

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so'n

EBE

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kFErE

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195vAmF

yAy

rAth y

200vvr

13. May they not come to harm by any of their movements who

approach thee with invocation, O Fire, O shining One; for

the singer of the hymn34 who has given the offering and

does well the pilgrim-rite demands of thee the office of the

205messenger.

34 Or, the doer of works

Mandala Eight

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sompFty

soByA

215up

mAdyv

220r

14. Come, O Fire, with the Rudras, comrade of the life-gods for

the drinking of the Soma wine, to the laud of Sobhari and

take thy rapture in the godhead of the Sun-world.