Canto 6Gotama Rahugana · Suktas 74, 77
Book 2. Part Two: Other Hymns to Agni
4. A desirable priest was set in the peoples, a desiring god, a
purifying Vasu in men, a dweller in the home, a master of
the house in the mansion; the Flame becomes a lord of many
treasures.
55. O Flame, we the Gotamas making thee clear and bright like
a swift horse who brings our plenty give expression to thee
by our thoughts, to the lord of treasures. At dawn may he
quickly come rich with thought.
GOTAMA RAHUGANA
10SUKTA 74
1. As we move forward to the path of the sacrifice let us speak
out the word of our thought to Agni who hears us from afar
and from within.
2. He who supreme (ancient, first) in the worlds of our action
15that pour forth the clarity meeting together (or, when our
labours that drip their fruit combine together), protects for
the giver his attaining (or movement).
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3. Yea, let all creatures born (be able to) say, “Up Agni comes
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battle after battle.”
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354. He whose messenger thou art to his home, thou takest his
offerings on their journey (or, takest his offerings on thy
journey to be eaten by the gods, or comest to the offerings);
thou makest effective his path of sacrifice.
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5. Him men call the man complete in his offering, complete in
his gods, complete in his base of sacrifice, O Angiras, O Son
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Other Hymns to Agni
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9. Yea, and thou lodgest throughout his being for the giver and
his gods, O God, Agni, a vast and luminous completeness
of energy.
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1. How shall we give to Agni? For him what Word accepted
by the Gods is spoken, for the lord of the brilliant flame? for
145him who in mortals, immortal, possessed of the Truth, priest
of the oblation strongest for sacrifice, creates the gods?
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of peace, full of the Truth, him verily form in you by your
surrenderings; when Agni manifests1 for the mortals the
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3. For he is the will, he is the strength, he is the effecter of
205perfection, even as Mitra he becomes the charioteer of the
Supreme. To him, the first, in the rich-offerings the people
seeking the godhead utter the word, the Aryan people to the
fulfiller.
1 Or “enters into the gods”.