Hymns to the Mystic Fire

Madhuchchhandas Vaishwamitra

Sukta 1

अग्निमीळे पुरोहितं यज्ञस्य देवमृत्विजम् ।
होतारं रत्नघातमम् ॥१॥

1) I adore the Flame, the vicar, the divine Ritwik of the Sacrifice, the summoner who most founds the ecstasy.

अग्निः पूर्वेभिऋषिभिरीडयो नूतनैरुत ।
स देवाँ एह वक्षति ॥२॥

2) The Flame adorable by the ancient sages is adorable too by the new. He brings here the Gods.

अग्निना रयिमश्नवत् पोषमेव दिवेदिवे ।
यज्ञसं वीरवत्तमम् ॥३॥

3) By the Flame one enjoys a treasure that verily increases day by day, glorious, most full of hero-power.

अग्ने यं यज्ञमध्वरं विश्वतः परिभूरसि ।
स इद् देवेषु गच्छति ॥४॥

4) O Flame! the pilgrim-sacrifice on every side of which thou art with the environing being, that truly goes among the Gods.

अग्निर्होता कविकतुः सत्यश्चित्रश्रवस्तमः ।
देवो देवेभिरा गमत् ॥५॥

5) The Flame, the summoner, the Seer-Will, true and most full of richly varied listenings, may he come a God with the Gods.

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यदङ्ग दाशुषे त्वमग्ने भद्रं करिष्यसि ।
तवेत् तत् सत्यमङ्गिरः ॥६॥

6) O Flame! the happy good which thou shalt create for the giver is that Truth and verily thine, O Angiras!

उप त्वाग्ने दिवेदिवे दोषावस्तर्धिया वयम् ।
नमो भरन्त एमसि ॥७॥

7) To thee, O Flame! we day by day, in the night and in the light, come, carrying by our thought the obeisance.

राजन्तमध्वराणां गोपामृतस्य दीदिविम् ।
वर्धमानं स्वे दमे ॥८॥

8) To thee, who reignest over our pilgrim-sacrifices, luminous guardian of the Truth, increasing in thy own home.

स नः पितेव सूनवेऽग्ने सूपायनो भव ।
सचस्वा नः स्वस्तये ॥९॥

9) Therefore, be easy of access to us as a father unto his son, cling to us for our happy state.