Canto 52Havirdhana Angi · Suktas 11–12
Book 2. Part Two: Other Hymns to Agni
7. By his will Trita in the secret cave desiring by his movements
the thinking of the supreme Father, cherished in the lap
of the Father and Mother, speaking the companion-word,
seeks his weapons.
58. Trita Aptya discovered the weapons of the Father and mis-
sioned by Indra went to the battle; he smote the Three-
headed, the seven-rayed and let loose the ray-cows of the
son of Twashtri the form-maker.
9. Indra, the master of beings, broke that great upstriving med-
10itating force and cast it downward and making his own the
ray-cows of Twashtri’s son of the universal forms he took
away from him his three heads.
HAVIRDHANA ANGI
SUKTA 11
151. Mighty from the mighty, strong and inviolable, he milked by
the milking of heaven the streams of the Indivisible; Varuna
knew all by his right thought. A lord of sacrifice, may he
perform the order of the rites of the sacrifice.
Other Hymns to Agni
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2. May the Gandharvi speak to me and the Woman born from
45the Waters, may her protection be around my mind midst
the roar of the river; may the indivisible mother establish us
in the heart of our desire: my brother the greatest9 and first
declares it to me.
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3. She the happy and opulent and glorious, Dawn has shone
out for man bringing the Sun-world with her when they gave
70birth to this Fire, an aspirant doing the will of the aspirants
for the discovery of knowledge.
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904. Now the Bird, the missioned Hawk, has brought the draught
of the great and seeing wine to the pilgrim-sacrifice. When
the Aryan peoples chose the doer of works, Fire the priest
of the call, then the thought was born.
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1155. Ever art thou delightful like grasses to that which feeds on
them, O Fire, doing well with thy voices of invocation the
pilgrim-sacrifice for man; when thou givest utterance to the
plenitude of the word of the illumined sage, as one who has
conquered, thou comest with thy multitude.
1209 Or, the eldest
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1406. Upward lift the Father and Mother; the lover aspires to his
enjoyment, rejoicing he obeys the urgings from his heart:
a bearer of the word he speaks and jocund longs for the
good work, the Mighty One puts forth his strength and is
illumined by the Thought.
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7. O Fire, O son of Force, the mortal who attains to thy right
175thinking goes forward and hears the truth beyond; holding
the impelling force, borne by the horses of power, luminous
and mighty he seeks to possess the heavens.
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2008. When, O Fire, takes place that sacrificial assembly, O mas-
ter of sacrifice, the assembly divine among the gods, when
thou distributest the ecstasies, O lord of nature, an opulent
portion bring to us.
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9. Hear us, O Fire, in thy house, in the hall of thy session,
yoke the galloping car of the Immortal; bring to us heaven
230and earth, parents of the gods; let none of the gods be away
from us and mayst thou be here.
Other Hymns to Agni
SUKTA 12
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1. Heaven and earth are the first to hear and by the Truth be-
come possessed of the true speech when the god fashioning
the mortal for the sacrificial act takes his seat as his priest of
255the call and turned towards its own force moves towards it.
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2. A god encompassing the gods with the Truth, carry our
offering, the first to awake to the knowledge; erect, thy light
rises by the kindling with smoke for thy banner; thou art
285the rapturous eternal priest of the call strong by speech for
the sacrifice.
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3. When perfectly achieved is the immortality of the godhead,
the immortality of the Light, men born in this world hold
315wide earth and heaven; all the gods follow in the track of
that sacrificial act10 of thine when the white cow is milked
of her stream of divine Light.
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4. O earth and heaven, I sing to you the word of illumination,
pouring your light make my work grow, may the two firma-
345ments hear me; when the days and the heavens have come
by the guidance of the force, may the Father and Mother
quicken us here with the sweetness of the wine.
10 Or, sacrificial word
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5. On something in us the king has laid hold; what have we
done that transgresses his law who can know? Even if the
Friend is dealing crookedly with the gods there is as if a call
380to us as we go, there is upon us a plenitude.
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4006. Hard to seize by the mind in this world is the name of the
immortal because he puts on features and becomes diver-
gent forms; he who grasps perfectly with his mind and his
thought seizes its controlling law, him, O Fire, O mighty
One, undeviatingly protect.
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4257. The discovery of knowledge in which the gods find their
rapture they hold in the house of the radiant sun; they have
set in the sun its light, in the moon its rays and both circle
unceasingly around its illumination.
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4458. The thought in which the gods meet together, when it is
occult we know not of it. May Mitra and the indivisible
mother and the godhead of the creative sun declare us sinless
to Varuna.