SUKTA 75
1. O Fire, yoke like a charioteer the horses most powerful for
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the calling of the gods; take thy seat, O ancient Priest of the call!
2. And now, since thou hast the knowledge, speak for us towards the gods, make true to our aspiration all desirable things.
3. For thou, O Fire, O most youthful son of force, thou in whom are cast the offerings, art the possessor of the Truth to be worshipped with sacrifice.
4. This Fire is the lord of the hundredfold and thousandfold plenitude, the seer who is the head of the treasures.
5. O Angiras, by words which bear in them the invocation, bring down nearer that sacrifice as the heavenʼs craftsmen brought down the rim of the wheel.
6. To him now, O Virupa, by the eternal word give the impulse of the high laud to the luminous Bull.
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7. By the army of the Fire who has the eye that sees from afar¹ may we lay low whatever miser Trafficker and enter among the shining herds.
8. May the peoples of the gods abandon us not, even as the unslayable luminous herds full of milk leave not a calf that is lean.
9. Let not calamity from every evil-thoughted hostile around smite us like a billow smiting a ship.
10. O divine Fire, men declare their prostration of surrender to thee that they may have force; crush by thy might the foe.
11. Once and again for our search for the Ray-Cow thou hast entered wholly into the riches, O Fire; O maker of wideness, make for us a wideness.
12. Abandon us not in the winning of this great wealth as if one who bears a heavy burden; conquer this massed treasure.
¹Or, who has the eye of wisdom
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13. O Fire, may this mischief cling to another than us for his terror; increase for us a forceful might.
14. The man in whose work he takes pleasure, one who offers the prostration of surrender and is not poor in sacrifice, him the Fire protects with increase.
15. From thy place in the supreme region break through¹ to those who are below; here where I am, them protect.
16. For we know from of old of thy protection like a fatherʼs, O Fire, now we seek thy bliss.
¹Or, descend
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