SUDITI AND PURUMILHA ANGIRASA
SUKTA 71
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O Fire, guard us by thy lights¹ from every hostile force and from mortal foe.
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O beloved in thy birth, mortal wrath has no power over you: thou art master of the nights.
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So do thou with all the gods, O child of Energy, O happy light, give us the wealth in which are all boons.
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The hostile forces, O Fire, cannot divorce from the Riches the mortal giver whom thou rescuest.
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O Fire, O illumined seer, he whom thou in the winning of the purity speedest towards the Riches, by thy protection reaches among the Ray-Cows.
¹ Or, by thy greatnesses
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Thou bringest, O Fire, the wealth in which are the many strengths to the mortal giver; lead us towards greater riches.
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Protect us, deliver us not, O knower of all things born, to the mortal, the evil-thoughted who would bring on us calamity.
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O Fire, let none undivine take away from us what was given by thee, the divine; thou hast power over the riches.
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Thou art the measurer to us, thy adorers of a mighty wealth, O child of Energy, O Friend, O shining One.
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May our words go towards thee with thy keen light and thy vision, our sacrifice to thee with surrender for our protection, thee the widely proclaimed, the master of many riches, —
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to the Fire, the Son of force, the knower of all things born, for the gift of our desirable things; twofold he becomes the immortal in the mortals, the rapturous Priest of the call in man.
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Fire for you by the worship to the gods, Fire in the journeying of the pilgrim-sacrifice. Fire in the thoughts first and chief. Fire in the war-horse. Fire for perfection in our field.
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May the Fire give us force in his comradeship, he who has power for the desirable things; Fire we seek continually in the son of our begettings as the shining one and the guardian of the body.
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Pray with your chants Fire of the keen flame for the protection, O Purumilha! Fire for the Treasure, — the Fire men pray for the inspired knowledge, a house for a splendid light.
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Fire we hymn with our words that he may remove from us the hostile power. Fire to give to us the peace and the movement; he is in all men like a protector to whom they may call, he is the daylight of the wise.
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