Canto 51Trishiras Twashtra · Sukta 8
Book 2. Part Two: Other Hymns to Agni
1. The Fire journeys on with his vast ray of intuition, the Bull
bellows to earth and heaven; he has reached up to the highest
extremities of heaven, the mighty one has grown in the lap
of the waters.
52. The Bull of the heights,8 the new-born rejoiced, the unfailing
child worker rejoiced and shouted aloud; in the formation
of the gods he does his exalted works and comes the first in
his own abodes.
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10Other Hymns to Agni
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3. He who grasps the head of the father and mother they set
within in the pilgrim-sacrifice, a sea from the Sun-world; in
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Horse of Power and they accept embodiment in the native
seat of the Truth.
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4. O shining One, thou comest to the front of dawn after dawn,
thou hast become luminous in the Twins; thou holdest the
seven planes for the Truth bringing Mitra to birth for thy
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5. Thou becomest the eye of the vast Truth; when thou jour-
neyest to the Truth thou becomest Varuna, its guardian;
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things born, thou becomest the messenger of the man in
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6. Thou art the leader of the sacrifice and leader to the mid-
world to which thou resortest constantly with thy helpful
team of mares; thou upholdest in heaven thy head that con-
quers the Sun-world, thy tongue thou makest, O Fire, the
120carrier of our offerings.