Savitri
A Legend and a Symbol

Canto 53Vasukra · Suktas 20–21

Book 2. Part Two: Other Hymns to Agni

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
and earth, parents of the gods; let none of the gods be away
from us and mayst thou be here.
5VIMADA AINDRA OR PRAJAPATYA
OR VASUKRIT VASUKRA
SUKTA 20
1. Bring to us a happy mind.
2. I pray the Fire, the friend who is irresistible in his own com-
10mand, in whose law the white rays attend on the Sun-world,
serve the teat of the mother.
3. Fire whom face to face a home of light, one who brings the
ray of intuition by his lustre they increase; he blazes with
his row of flaming tusks.
154. He comes to us as a noble path for men when he travels to
the ends of heaven; he is the seer and he lights up the sky.11
11 Or, the cloud.
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305. Accepting the oblation of man he stands high exalted in the
sacrifice, a skilful craftsman; he goes in our front building
our home.
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6. He is our secure foundation, he is our offering, he is the
sacrifice; his path goes swiftly to its goal: the gods call Fire
with its adze.
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7. I desire from the Fire, powerful for the sacrifice the work of
the supreme bliss;12 they speak of him as the living son of
the stone.13
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8. Whatever men are with us may they in all ways abide in
85happiness making the Fire to grow by the offerings.
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1009. Black is his movement and white and luminous and crimson-
red, it is large and straight and glorious; golden of form the
father brought into being.
12 Or, the work that brings the supreme bliss;
13 Or, of the Rock, or the Peak.
105Other Hymns to Agni
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13010. So, O Fire, rapturous thou bearest thy thinking mind, O son
of energy, companioning the immortals, coming to us thou
bearest thy words and thy right thinkings, thou bringest
impelling force, energy, happy worlds of habitation, all.14
SUKTA 21
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1. By our self-purifications we elect thee, the Fire as our priest
of the call, for the sacrifice where strewn is the grass — in the
155intoxication of your rapture — intense with thy purifying
light of flame — and thou growest to greatness.
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2. Those who have achieved possession of the Horse, are very
close to thee and glorify thee; the ladle goes to thee — in the
intoxication of your rapture — direct, carrying the oblation,
O Fire — and thou growest to greatness.
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3. In thee the upholding laws reside; sprinkling out their con-
tents as with ladles black forms and white — in the intoxica-
tion of your rapture — all glories thou holdest — and thou
205growest to greatness.
14 Or, Vimada, the rapturous one, coming carries to thee, O Fire, his thinking mind, to
thee his words and his right thinkings, brings etc.
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4. O forceful and immortal Fire, whatever wealth thou deemest
225fit, that for the winning of the plenitudes — in the intoxi-
cation of your rapture — bring to us, a wealth of various
lights in the sacrifices — and thou growest to greatness.
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5. The Fire born from Atharvan knows all seer-wisdoms, he
250becomes the messenger of the luminous sun — in the intox-
ication of your rapture — dear and desirable to the lord of
the law — and thou growest to greatness.
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6. Thee they pray in the sacrifices, O Fire, as the pilgrim-
sacrifice goes on its way; all desirable treasures — in the
intoxication of your rapture — thou foundest for the giver
275— and thou growest to greatness.
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2957. Thee as the priest of the rite in the sacrifices men have seated,
O Fire, beautiful, luminous of front — in the intoxication of
your rapture — bright and, with thy eyes, most conscious of
knowledge — and thou growest to greatness.
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8. O Fire, with thy bright light of flame thou spreadest the wide
Vast, clamouring thou becomest the bull — in the intoxica-
tion of your rapture — and settest the child of the womb in