Hymns to the Mystic Fire

Ushanas Kavya

Sukta 84

प्रेष्ठं वो अतिथिं स्तुषे मित्रमिव प्रियम् ।
अग्निं रथं न वेद्यम् ॥१॥

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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कविमिव प्रचेतसं यं देवासो अध द्विता ।
नि मर्त्येष्वादधुः ॥२॥

2) He whom as the seer and thinker the gods have now set within twofold in mortals.

त्वं यविष्ठ दाशुषो नृः पाहि शृणुधी गिरः ।
रक्षा तोकमुत त्मना ॥३॥

3) O thou ever-young, guard men who give, hear our words; protect the son by the Self.

कया ते अग्ने अङगिर ऊर्जो नपादुपस्तुतिम् ।
वराय देव मन्यवे ॥४॥

4) O divine Fire, O Angiras, O child of energy, by what word, the laud, for thy supreme thinking?

दाशेम कस्य मनसा यज्ञस्य सहसो यहो ।
कदु वोच इदं नमः ॥५॥

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?

अधा त्वं हि नस्करो विश्वा अस्मभ्यं सुक्षितीः ।
वाजद्रविणसो गिरः ॥६॥

6) Mayst thou thyself create for us all worlds of a happy dwelling, make our words a source of the plenitude and the riches.

कस्य नूनं परीणसो धियो जिन्वसि दंपते ।
गोषाता यस्य ते गिरः ॥७॥

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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तं मर्जयन्त सुकतुं पुरोयावानमाजिषु ।
स्वेषु क्षयेषु वाजिनम् ॥८॥

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.

क्षेति क्षेमेभिः साधुभिर्नकिर्य घ्नन्ति हन्ति यः ।
अग्ने सुवीर एषते ॥९॥

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.