SOBHARI KANWA

SUKTA 103

1. He is seen, the great path-finder in whom they have founded the laws of our action; to the Fire well-born, increaser of the Aryan, go our words.

2. Fire lit by the Servant of Heaven travels in his might towards the gods along our mother earth and on heavenʼs peak he takes his stand.

3. Fire because of whom men doing the works that have to be done, grow luminous, him conqueror of the thousands as if in the winning of the purities they serve by the self,¹ by their thoughts.

4. He whom thou willst to lead to the Riches, the mortal who gives to thee, O shining One, he holds in himself, O Fire, the hero, who utters the word, who increases the thousands.

5. He rends open the plenitude even in the strong place by the

¹ Or, of themselves,

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war-horse, he founds an imperishable inspired knowledge; O thou of the many riches, in thee we ever hold in the god-heads all beautiful things.

6. He who gives to us all treasures, menʼs rapturous Priest of the call, to him our lauds go forth as if supreme vessels of the honey-wine.

7. The lavish givers, the seekers of the godhead, make him bright by their words as if currying a chariot-horse. O powerful for action, O lord of peoples, in the son of our begettings thou earnest achievement of the possessors of riches beyond both the firmaments.

8. Chant to the most bounteous, the possessor of the Truth, the brilliant in light, coming with the laud, to the Fire.

9. High-kindled, fed with the offering full of light, the lord of riches conquers a heroic glory; often may his new right-thinking come towards us with the plenitudes,—

10. O thou who pressest the wine, laud the Fire, the guest most beloved of the beloved, the controller of the chariots, —

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11. the master of sacrifice who turns towards us the hidden treasures now risen and known, he in whose downward descent is a rush as of waves hard to cross, when he conquers by the thought the plenitudes.

12. May not Fire, the guest, the shining One widely proclaimed, be wroth with us; this is he who is the perfect Priest of the call perfect in the pilgrim-rite.

13. May they not come to harm by any of their movements who approach thee with invocation, O Fire, O shining One; for the singer of the hymn¹ who has given the offering and does well the pilgrim-rite demands of thee the office of the messenger.

14. Come, O Fire, with the Rudras, comrade of the life-gods, for the drinking of the Soma-wine, to the laud of Sobhari and take thy rapture in the godhead of the Sun-world.

¹ Or, the doer of works

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