SUDITI AND PURUMILHA ANGIRASA

SUKTA  71

1. O Fire, guard us by thy lights¹ from every hostile force and from mortal foe.

2. O beloved in thy birth, mortal wrath has no power over you:  thou art master of the nights.

3. So do thou with all the gods, O child of Energy, O happy light, give us the wealth in which are all boons.

4. The hostile forces, O Fire, cannot divorce from the Riches the mortal giver whom thou rescuest.

5. O Fire, O illumined seer, he whom thou in the winning of the purity speedest towards the Riches, by thy protection reaches among the Ray-Cows.

    ¹Or, by thy greatnesses

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6. Thou bringest, O Fire, the wealth in which are the many strengths to the mortal giver; lead us towards greater riches.

7. Protect us, deliver us not, O knower of all things born, to the mortal, the evil-thoughted who would bring on us calamity.

8. O Fire, let none undivine take away from us what was given by thee, the divine; thou hast power over the riches.

9. Thou art the measurer to us, thy adorers of a mighty wealth, O child of Energy, O Friend, O shining One.

10. May our words go towards thee with thy keen light and thy vision, our sacrifice to thee with surrender for our protection, thee the widely proclaimed, the master of many riches, —

11. to the Fire, the Son of force, the knower of all things born, for the gift of our desirable things; twofold he becomes the immortal in the mortals, the rapturous Priest of the call in man.

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12. Fire for you by the worship to the gods. Fire in the journeying of the pilgrim-sacrifice. Fire in the thoughts first and chief. Fire in the war-horse. Fire for perfection in our field.

13. May the Fire give us force in his comradeship, he who has power for the desirable things; Fire we seek continually in the son of our begettings as the shining one and the guardian of the body.

14. Pray with your chants Fire of the keen flame for the protection, O Purumilha! Fire for the Treasure, — the Fire men pray for the inspired knowledge, a house for a splendid light.

15. Fire we hymn with our words that he may remove from us the hostile power. Fire to give to us the peace and the movement; he is in all men like a protector to whom they may call, he is the daylight of the wise.

HARYATA PRAGATHA

SUKTA  72

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1. Do you make the offering, the Priest of the pilgrim-rite has come and he conquers again, for he knows the commandment of the Fire.

2. Let him sit within close to the keen burning ray the Priest of the call in thinking man accepting the comradeship of the Fire.

3. Within they wish him to be in a man the "terrible one", beyond the thinking mind; by his tongue they seize the peace.

4. High burnt the companion bow, a founder of the growth he climbed to woodland, he smote the rock with his tongue. 

5. He is the shining calf who wanders and finds none to bind him here, to one who lauds him he manifests the mother.¹

6. And now is the great and vast yoking as if of the Horse, the rope of the chariot is seen.

    ¹Or, for one who lauds him he goes to the mother.

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7. Seven milk the one, two let loose the five at the ford of the River upon the cry of the waters.

8. By the ten of the sun Indra made fall the covering sheath of heaven with his triple mallet.

9. A new adoration moves round the triple pilgrim-sacrifice, the priests of the call anoint With the honey-wine.

10. With surrender they pour out the inexhaustible pervading well whose wheel is on high and its opening below.

11. Close by are the stones and the honey-wine is poured in the lotus in the discharging of the well.

12. O Ray-Cows, come to the well; here is the great wine-jar of the sacrifice, here are both the golden handles.

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13. Pour into the wine that is pressed, a joining splendour, the glory of earth and heaven; by the juice of the wine sustain the Bull.

14. They know their own home; like calves with their mothers they met with each other as companions.

15. In the jaws of the eater they made their foundation in heaven, their prostrations of surrender to Indra and the Fire made the Sun-world.

16. The warrior milked out the seven-planed nourishing force and energy by the seven rays of the sun. 

17. O Mitra and Varuna, in the rising of the moon he received it on the sun; it is the healing draught for him who suffers.

18. And now let him stretch oul¹ with his tongue of flame around heaven that plane of him in his full delight which is to be laid as a foundation.

    ¹Or, form

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