MEDHATITHI KANWA
SUKTA 12
1. We choose Agni, the summoner, the all-knowing, the messenger, the will effective of this sacrifice.
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To the Lord of the creatures, the bearer of our offerings, the beloved of Many, to every flame the sacrificers ever call with hymns that summon the Gods, One in whom are many dear things.
3. O Fire, thou being born hither bear the Gods for the sacrificer who spreads the holy seat, thou art our desirable summoning priest.
4. O Fire, when thou goest as our envoy, awaken them up who desire our offerings. Take thy seat with the Gods on the holy grass.
5. O Fire, thou who art called by the offerings of clarity, thou shining one, do thou oppose and burn down the haters that confine.
6. By the Fire is the fire perfectly kindled, the seer, the lord of the house, the youth, the bearer of offering whose mouth receives the offerings.
7. To the divine Flame, the seer, him whose law of being is the Truth, the shining one, the destroyer of all evils, approach
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and chant the hymn of praise.
8. O Flame, O divine messenger, the lord of the offerings who waits on thee, of him become the protector.
9. He who with the offerings approaches the divine force, for the Birth of the Gods, O Purifier, on him have grace.
10. O shining Flame, thou who purifiest, hither bear the Gods to our offerings and to our sacrifice.
11. Thou adored by our fresh Gayatri rhythms bring for us the felicity and force full of heroʼs strength.
12. O Fire, with thy lustres white, and all thy divine hymns that summon the Gods, come and accept this hymn that we affirm.
SUKTA 13
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1. O Fire! perfectly kindled, bear the gods to him who has the offerings, O Thou who purifiest! Thou summoner! sacrifice to the gods.
2. O Son of the body! Now make the sacrifice honied for the gods (or full of honey among the gods) for their enjoyment, O seer.
3. Him, the beloved, I call hither to this sacrifice, he who creates the offerings, possessed of honied tongue.
4. O Fire! Thou who art adored, bring here the gods in thy happiest car; (for) thou art the summoner established by man.
5. O Thinkers! spread you the holy seat continuous and true in order, sprinkled with clear offerings (of clarified butter), to where is the vision of immortality.
SUKTA 14
1. With all these gods, O Agni, thou who art the activity of
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speech, arrive and do thy work.
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On thee, O Agni, the Kanwas have called, for thee, O master of wisdom, their movements of understanding become articulate; arrive, O Agni, with the gods.
3. On Indra and Vayu, Brihaspati, on Mitra and Agni, Pushan, Bhaga, the Adityas and the Marut host.
4. For you the nectar streams are filled in, rapturous and maddening, dripping sweetness, into their vessel they settle down.
5. Thee the Kanwas protected adore, when they have manifested the Flame, hold the offering and have set their array.
6. Shining of flank, yoked to the mind, the bearers that bear thee and bear to us the gods to drink the Soma-wine,
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make them active to the Yajna, O Agni, they increase by truth, they have with them their female powers; make them drink the sweetnesses, O keen of tongue.
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8. Those that are active to Yajna, those that are adorable, let both of them drink with thy tongue, O Agni, the heady sweetness of the wine.
9. From the world of the lustre of the sun the seer, the priest of the offering bringeth the gods that wake to the dawn.
10. With all of them, O Agni, drink thou the sweetness of the Soma-wine, with Indra and Vayu and Mitraʼs lustres.
11. Thou, the priest of the oblation, thinker and friend, sittest, O Agni, at the Yajnas, therefore do thou set thyself to this action of sacrifice of ours.
12. Yoking, O God, in thy chariot the rosy and the green and the crimson, by these bear hither the gods.
SUKTA 36
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