Canto 61Upastuta Varshtihavya · Sukta 115
Book 2. Part Two: Other Hymns to Agni
1. Marvellous is the power to upbear of this young, this infant
god, for he goes not to his two mothers to drink their milk,
even though one without teats of plenty brought him to birth
Other Hymns to Agni
5then as now, from the first he did his carrying, performing
his mighty embassy.
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2. Fire, verily, is established, a giver and mighty doer of works,
30he clings to the trees with his blazing tusks achieving the
pilgrim-sacrifice with his besieging tongue of flame, he is
like a snorting bull, master in his pasturage.
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3. He is to you like a bird settled on a tree, like the divine moon-
55flow of the Soma plant, like a clamorous spreading ocean;
he is as one who carries in his mouth of flame, exuberant
in strength, mighty in the way of his works, rushing on his
paths.
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4. O ageless Fire, when thou rangest the spaces in thy will to
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joyful fighters, having the command for the seeking they
march towards the warrior of the triple world.37
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5. This is the Fire, friend of the seer, himself the greatest of
seers, who delivers from the inner foe; may Fire guard the
speakers of the word, Fire the illumined seers, may he give
his protection to them and to us.
10537 Or, Trita the warrior.
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6. O high-born, thou art he who moves swiftly in the wake
of the knower of all things born, the Fire forceful and most
130full of the plenitude and even in the waterless desert for him
who is there and desires it and is full of greatness, winnest
by the violence of thy bow that which is supreme.
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7. This is the Fire who is lauded accompanied by mortal il-
lumined seers, the Shining One,38 strong and glad by men,
they who are seekers of the Truth, and like well-established
friends, like the heavens with their lights have power on
165human beings.
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1858. “O son of energy, O forceful One,” so adores thee the
mighty speech of Upastuta, thee let us laud, by thee may
we be armed with the heroes, holding more and more an
ever longer life.
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9. Thus have extolled thee, O Fire, the sons of Vrishtihavya,
the Upastuta Rishis;39 protect them and the illuminates who
speak the word, rising on high they have attained with the
cry of “Vashat”, “Vashat”, with the cry of obeisance.
22538 Or, the master of riches,
39 Or, sages, extolled;
Other Hymns to Agni
CHITRAMAHAS VASISHTHA