AGNI PAVAKA sukta 140 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. Purifying is thy flaming energy, bright is thy energy, indeficient is thy energy as thou ascendest with thy light — a son thou rangest and protectest the Parents and thou joinest together earth and heaven. O son of energy, O knower of all things born, well-founded rejoice in our perfect utterances a

VASUYUS SUKTA 25 Raise thy song towards the Will, towards the divine for thy increasing, for he is our lord of substance and he lavishes; he is the son of the seekers of knowledge; he is the keeper of the Truth who ferries us beyond the surge of our destroyers. This is the true in his being whom the seers of old kindled, yea, the gods too kindled him with perfect outshinings into his wide substance of the light, the Priest of the oblation with his tongue of ecstasy. O Flame supremely desirable, so by our supreme thinking, by our brightest perfected mentality, by its utter cleaving away of all evi

A Great God has been Released TRANSLATION AND EXPLANATION : V. 1* Agni by the fuel heaped by the peoples has awakened towards the coming Dawn as towards the sun-cow coming; like the waters spouting up for wide flowing, his flames move towards the heaven. The Priest of the offering awoke for sacrifice to the gods, Agni stood up high in the dawn and perfect-minded; the gathered force of him was seen reddening when he was entirely kindled; a great god has been released out of the darkness. When so he has put forth the tongue of his multitude, pure is the activity of Agni with the pure herd of his rays; the

UTKILA KATYA SUKTA 15 Flaming out in a wide mass of strength press back the hostile powers that hurt and afflict. May I abide in the bliss of the all-blissful Vast, in the leading of the Fire who is swift to our call. Thou in the dawning of this dawn, thou when the Sun has arisen wake for us and be our protector. Take pleasure in the Son as if in an eternal birth. Accept my affirmation of thee, O Fire, perfectly born in thy body. Thou art the male with the divine vision, in the wake of many dawns shine out luminous in the black nights, O Fire. O prince of the riches, lead a

DYUMNA VISHWACHARSHANI SUKTA 23 O Fire, bring by the force of the light a forceful wealth which shall overcome by thy mouth in the plenitudes all the peoples. O forceful Fire, bring that wealth which overcomes armies, Page –235 for thou art the true, the wonderful, the giver of the plenitude of the Ray-Cows. All men who have plucked the sacred grass with one mind of acceptance approach thee, the beloved Priest of the call in their houses and reach in thee the multitude of desirable things. This is the labourer in all manʼs works and he h

Riks of Madhuchchhandas TRANSLATION AND NOTES : I.1.1-5 Agnimīḷe purohitam yajṇ̃asya devamṛtvijam, hotāram ratnadhātamam. Rik 1. ईळे (īḷe): to praise, in the ritualistic sense; but as a secondary root of ई (i) ईळ् (īḷ) meant to seek, go towards, attain, desire, adore, pray, ask for (cf. मातरमन्न्मैट्ट, mataramannamaiṭṭa, III. 48. 3). The former senses have been lost and only “to desireˮ, “prayˮ or “ask forˮ are left in later Sanskrit; but the other senses must have existed, as the idea of desiring, asking is never a primary sense of any root, but derived figuratively from the physical sense “to go, seek,

VATSA AGNEYA sukta 187 1. Send forth the word to the Fire, the bull of the worlds,² may he carry us through beyond the hostile forces. 2. He who shines beyond the desert across the supreme Beyond, may he carry us through beyond the hostile forces. 3. He who destroys the Rakshasas, the bull with the brilliant ¹ Or, in the lap of the mother. ² Or, of the peoples, Page – 434 light, may he carry us through beyond the hostile forces. 4. He who looks upon all the worlds

SUTAMBHARA SUKTA 11 Fire the guardian of men has been born, wakeful and discerning for a new happy journey; luminous is his front and with his heaven-touching vast he shines out full of light and brilliant in his purity for the Bringers. Fire the supreme intuition of the sacrifice, the representative priest, men have kindled high in the triple world of his session; let him come in one chariot with Indra and the gods and take his seat on the sacred grass, the Priest of the call, strong in will to sacrifice. Page –222 Unoppressed thou art born brilliant-pure from the mothers twain, a rap

USHANAS KAVYA SUKTA 84 1. Your guest most beloved I laud who is like a beloved friend, Fire who is as if the chariot of our journey, the one whom we must know. Page – 368 2. He whom as the seer and thinker the gods have now set within twofold in mortals. 3. O thou ever-young, guard men who give, hear our words; protect the son by the Self. 4. O divine Fire, O Angiras, O child of energy, by what word, the laud, for thy supreme thinking? 5. By the mind of what master of sacrifice shall we give, O son of force; how shall I word this

CHITRAMAHAS VASISHTHA sukta 122 I voice the Shining One with its richly varied lights,² 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. 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.