Canto 62Chitramahas Vasishtha · Sukta 122
Book 2. Part Two: Other Hymns to Agni
1. I voice the Shining One with its richly varied lights,40 the fair
and happy, the guest in whom is nothing hostile; Fire, the
priest of the call, the master of the house gives the healing
forces that sustain the world, he gives us the hero-energy.
52. O Fire, take pleasure in my word, let thy joy respond to
it, for thou knowest all discoveries of knowledge, O strong
will! Robed in light, put out a path for the Word, the gods
have begotten all according to thy law of works.
3. Encompassing the seven planes, O immortal, giving to the
10giver, to the doer of good deeds, grow great;41 O Fire, with
riches full of hero-strength crowding on him, accept the man
who has come to thee with the fuel.
4. The seven givers of the offering pray the lord of plenitudes,
the supreme Ray of intuition, the vicar of the sacrifice, Fire,
15the Bull with the luminous back who hears our words, the
god who on him who satisfies him with gifts bestows fullness
of heroic might.
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make resplendent in the house of the giver, thee with their
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6. In one to whom sacrifice is dear, for the giver of sacrifice,
milking the force that is a good milch-cow, the force that
founds all, O strong will, O Fire, thrice pouring light, illu-
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thou puttest forth thy strength of will.
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105sacrifice in the outshining of this dawn; thee the gods have
increased for their growing to greatness making bright the
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8. The Vasishthas called thee within them, full of plenitude,
voicing the Fire, ordainers of works in the discoverings of
knowledge; uphold the increasing of the riches in the doers
of the sacrifice, do you ever guard us with all kinds of weal.
135Other Hymns to Agni
AGNI PAVAKA