Canto 7Kutsa Angirasa · Suktas 94–97
Book 2. Part Two: Other Hymns to Agni
4. May this strongest of the Powers and devourer of the
destroyers manifest2 by his presence the Words and their
understanding, and may they who in their extension are
lords of plenitude brightest in energy pour forth their plenty
5and give their impulsion to the thought.
5. Thus has Agni possessed of the Truth been affirmed by the
masters of light,3 the knower of the worlds by clarified
minds. He shall foster in them the force of illumination,
he too the plenty; he shall attain to increase and to harmony
10by his perceptions.
KUTSA ANGIRASA
SUKTA 94
1. This is the omniscient who knows the law of our being and
is sufficient to his works; let us build the song of his truth
15by our thought and make it as if a chariot on which he
shall mount. When he dwells with us, then a happy wisdom
becomes ours. With him for friend we cannot come to harm.
2 Or “enter into the words and the thinking”.
3 Gotamebhih.. In its external sense “by the Gotamas”, the family of the Rishi, Gotama
20Rahugana, the seer of the hymn. But the names of the Rishis are constantly used with a
covert reference to their meaning. In this passage there is an unmistakable significance
in the grouping of the words, gotamebhir r.t¯av¯a, viprebhir j¯ataved¯ah., as in verse 3 in
dasmam ¯ar¯ıh..
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2. Whosoever makes him his priest of the sacrifice, reaches
the perfection that is the fruit of his striving, a home on a
height of being where there is no warring and no enemies;
50he confirms in himself an ample energy; he is safe in his
strength, evil cannot lay its hand upon him.
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3. This is the fire of our sacrifice! May we have strength to
75kindle it to its height, may it perfect our thoughts. In this all
that we give must be thrown that it may become a food for
the gods; this shall bring to us the godheads of the infinite
consciousness who are our desire.
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1004. Let us gather fuel for it, let us prepare for it offerings, let us
make ourselves conscious of the jointings of its times and
its seasons. It shall so perfect our thoughts that they shall
extend our being and create for us a larger life.
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5. This is the guardian of the world and its peoples, the shep-
herd of all these herds; all that is born moves by his rays
and is compelled by his flame, both the two-footed and the
130four-footed creatures. This is the rich and great thought-
awakening of the Dawn within.
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6. This is the priest who guides the march of the sacrifice,
160the first and ancient who calls to the gods and gives the
offerings; his is the command and his the purification; from
his birth he stands in front, the vicar of our sacrifice. He
knows all the works of this divine priesthood, for he is the
Thinker who increases in us.
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7. The faces of this God are everywhere and he fronts all things
perfectly; he has the eye and the vision: when we see him
from afar, yet he seems near to us, so brilliantly he shines
across the gulfs. He sees beyond the darkness of our night,
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8. O you godheads, let our chariot be always in front, let our
clear and strong word overcome all that thinks the false-
hood. O you godheads, know for us, know in us that Truth,
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9. With blows that slay cast from our path, O thou Flame,
260the powers that stammer in the speech and stumble in the
thought, the devourers of our power and our knowledge
who leap at us from near and shoot at us from afar. Make
the path of the sacrifice a clear and happy journeying.
Other Hymns to Agni
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10. Thou hast bright red horses for thy chariot, O Will divine,
who are driven by the stormwind of thy passion; thou
roarest like a bull, thou rushest upon the forests of life, on
its pleasant trees that encumber thy path, with the smoke of
295thy passion in which there is the thought and the sight.
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32011. At the noise of thy coming even they that wing in the skies
are afraid, when thy eaters of the pasture go abroad in their
haste. So thou makest clear thy path to thy kingdom that
thy chariots may run towards it easily.
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35012. This dread and tumult of thee, is it not the wonderful and
exceeding wrath of the gods of the Life rushing down on us
to found here the purity of the Infinite, the harmony of the
Lover? Be gracious, O thou fierce Fire, let their minds be
again sweet to us and pleasant.
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13. God art thou of the gods, for thou art the lover and friend;
richest art thou of the masters of the Treasure, the founders
380of the home, for thou art very bright and pleasant in the
pilgrimage and the sacrifice. Very wide and far-extending is
the peace of thy beatitudes; may that be the home of our
abiding!
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41014. That is the bliss of him and the happiness; for then is this
Will very gracious and joy-giving when in its own divine
house, lit into its high and perfect flame, it is adored by our
thoughts and satisfied with the wine of our delight. Then
it lavishes its deliciousness, then it returns in treasure and
415substance all that we have given into its hands.
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15. O thou infinite and indivisible Being, it is thou ever that
435formest the sinless universalities of the spirit by our sacrifice;
thou compellest and inspirest thy favourites by thy happy
and luminous forcefulness, by the fruitful riches of thy joy.
Among them may we be numbered.
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16. Thou art the knower of felicity and the increaser here of our
life and advancer of our being! Thou art the godhead!
SUKTA 95
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1. Day and Night have different forms, but are travellers to
one perfect goal; they suckle alternately the divine Child.
In our day he becomes the brilliant Sun and is master of
the law of his nature; through our night he is visible in the
480purity of his brightness and the energy of his lustres.
Other Hymns to Agni
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2. Ten powers of the Thought, young and sleepless goddesses,
gave birth to this child of the Maker who is carried very var-
iously and widely. They lead him abroad through the world
505in a flaming splendour, his keen power of light self-lustrous
in all things born.
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3. There are three births of him that seek to come into being
around us, one is in the ocean of the infinite, one is in the
heavens, one is in the waters that descend from the heav-
535ens. In the supreme region of mind, the eastern direction of
earthly beings, he declares the seasons of their sacrifice and
ordains them in their succession.
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4. Which of you has awakened to the knowledge of this secret
thing, that it is the Child who gives birth to his own mothers
by the right workings of the law of his nature? Born in the
560womb of many waters, he comes forth from their lap a vast
Seer, possessed of the law of his being.
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5. Very bright and pleasant he increases in them and is made
manifest; in the lap of their crooked windings, he is straight-
585exalted and self-lustrous. Heaven and earth both had fear of
their Maker in his birth; they are driven trembling towards
the young lion and woo him to their love.
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of happiness. The thoughts of the Light come voiceful to him
615in all their movements like lowing cows and he becomes the
master of all judgments and discernings whom men anoint
with their offerings on the right hand of the altar.
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7. Like the creating Sun he lifts up his arms to heaven and
terrible in his force, adorning both his wives, he labours
working into brightness both these fields of his outpouring;
he drives upward the shining veil of thought from all that
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8. When he joins himself in his seat and home to the rays of
the Truth and to its streams, when he makes for himself that
higher flaming form of his, then as the seer and thinker he
delivers into a bright clearness that divine foundation. In
670our forming of the godheads, it is he that is their union and
coming together.
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9. The speed of thee encompasses the wideness, the founda-
690tion, the far-shining abode of the vast Godhead. O Flame,
lit into thy full height guard us with all thy universal self-
illuminings, guards invincible.
Other Hymns to Agni
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72010. He creates on our desert earth the stream, the moving billow,
and by its shining waves of light he ascends to the heavens;
he holds all old and lasting things in his bellies and moves
in all new births.
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74511. So, O Flame, increase by the fuel that we heap for thee; and,
O purifier, shine wide and opulently that we may possess
inspired knowledge. That may the Lords of Harmony and
Wideness increase in us, the Mother infinite and the great
ocean and earth and heaven.
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1. As of old by force he is born and in his very birth infallibly he
lays his hands on all seer-seeings and wisdoms; the Thought
and the heavenly waters bring to perfection this friend of
beings. The godheads hold the Flame that gives the treasure.
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2. By the supreme and original inmost knowledge of the being,
the knowledge that does the works of the seer, he brought
into being these children of men, the thinkers, and by his
wide-shining eye of vision created heaven and its waters.
800The godheads hold the Flame that gives the treasure.
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8203. Him desire and adore, for he is the first and chief who brings
to perfect accomplishment your sacrifice, since he takes all
offering of the Aryan peoples and makes them to shine with
light; he is the son of Energy, the bringer of boons, the flood
of strength. The godheads hold the Flame that gives the
825treasure.
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4. He is Life that swells in the mother of things, the Life-god
who nurses in his bosom many blessings, finds the path for
the Son of men and discovers the country of Light, protector
of the peoples, father of earth and heaven. The godheads
850hold the Flame that gives the treasure.
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8705. Night and Dawn are working to shape that highest hue
of things, different, they suckle one child, they are united
equals; between our earth and heavens are born the wide-
nesses of his golden light. The godheads hold the Flame that
gives the treasure.
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6. He is the foundation of the opulence of the beatitude, the
bringer together of its treasures; he is the conscious eye of
900our sacrifice who accomplishes and perfects the thought in
the word of man. The godheads, guarding immortality, hold
the Flame that gives the treasure.
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7. Now and of old he is the seat of all felicities, continent of
all that is born and all that is coming into birth, guardian of
that which is and the much that becomes, — the godheads
hold the Flame that gives the treasure.
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8. May this giver of treasure extend to us treasure which
955hastens to its home, and the treasure which is lasting and
eternal; he is the giver of treasure and he shall give to us
heroic energy of impulsion and lavish on us long existence.
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9. So, O Flame, increase by the fuel that we heap for thee; and,
980O purifier, shine wide and opulently that we may possess
inspired knowledge. That may the Lords of Harmony and
Wideness increase in us, the Mother infinite and the great
ocean and earth and heaven.
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1. Burn away from us the sin, flame out on us the bliss. Burn
away from us the sin!
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2. For the perfect path to the happy field, for the exceeding
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3. That the happiest of all these many godheads may be born
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4. That thy seers, O Flame divine, may multiply and we be
new-born as thine, — burn away from us the sin!
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5. When the flaming rays of thy might rush abroad on every
side violently, — burn away from us the sin!
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6. O God, thy faces are everywhere! thou besiegest us on every
1075side with thy being. Burn away from us the sin!
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7. Let thy face front the Enemy wherever he turns; bear us in
thy ship over the dangerous waters. Burn away from us the
1090sin!
Other Hymns to Agni
8. As in a ship over the ocean, bear us over into thy felicity.
Burn away from us the sin!
DIRGHATAMAS AUCHATHYA