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.
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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 prostration of my surrender?
6. Mayst thou thyself create for us all worlds of a happy dwelling, make our words a source of the plenitude and the riches.
7. In whose wide-moving thought dost thou take delight, O master of the house; thou from whom come our words in the conquest of the Light?
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8. Him they make bright the strong of will and he goes in front in the race;¹ he is a master of plenitude in his own abodes.
9. He dwells safe on perfect foundations and there are none to slay him, it is he who slays; O Fire, he is a mighty hero and prosperous.
¹Or, in the contests;