Canto 63Agni Pavaka · Sukta 140
Book 2. Part Two: Other Hymns to Agni
1. O Fire, thy inspiration and thy growth and thy lights blaze
in their greatness, O thou who shinest out with thy lustres;
O great luminousness, O seer, thou foundest by thy strength
for the giver a plenitude of utterance.
52. Purifying is thy flaming energy, bright is thy energy, in-
deficient is thy energy as thou ascendest with thy light — a
son thou rangest and protectest the Parents and thou joinest
together earth and heaven.
3. O son of energy, O knower of all things born, well-founded
10rejoice in our perfect utterances and our thinkings; in thee
they have joined together impelling forces of many forms,
richly varied in their prospering, born to charm and beauty.
4. O immortal Fire, ruling over creatures born, spread in us
thy Riches; thou art master of 42 thy body of vision and thou
15satest thy conquering will.
42 Or, thou shinest out from
Mandala Ten
5. A thinker, an arranger of sacrifice, a master of great achieve-
ment thou foundest a bounty of delight and a great and
20fortunate impulsion and conquering Riches.
6. Men have set in front this great Truth-possessing and all-
seeing Fire for the bliss; thee who hast the ear that hears
our words voice, wide-extended, one divine throughout the
human generations.
25MRIDIKA VASISHTHA